COMPARITIVE URBANISM: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE CONFERENCE
COMPARITIVE URBANISM: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE CONFERENCE
Welcome from the Director
The world has entered an unprecedented urban age and universities around the globe, along with governments, think tanks, and private corporations, are making major efforts to understand and direct the forces of urbanization. The ramifications of ‘planetary urbanization’ are profound and they entwine with major social transformations that provide opportunities and pose challenges.
If in the first half of the 20th century the ‘Chicago school’ ruled urban studies, such singular domination of the field, from the United States or anywhere else, is now inconceivable. A hundred years ago, urbanization redefined the societies of the ‘North’, especially in Europe and North America; in the past few decades, the same happened in East Asia and, more recently, in the Global South. How does this affect our understanding of cities and urbanization in general? Can we uphold a singular definition of the city? Is urban theory ‘portable’, i.e., does it truly apply across urban contexts around the world? Are urban policies ‘mobile’, to what extent can cities learn from each other?
The Urban Studies Institute, founded in September of 2017, is organizing this 2-day conference to address these questions about comparative urbanism in global perspective. The conference builds on existing research in the field and is framed around a trialogue of perspectives from the North, South, and East. Keynote speakers and participants hail from different parts of the world but all share a passion for urban research and policy –with an eye to questions of the comparative understanding of cities.
This conference promises to be a path-breaking event and one that will build long-lasting global scholarly networks. If you are participating in the conference, we thank you in advance for your important contribution. If you wish to attend the conference as part of the audience, you are most welcome.
We look forward to hosting you all in Atlanta
Jan Nijman
Director
Urban Studies Institute
Organizing Committee
Jean-Paul Addie
Fei Li
John Travis Marshall
Deirdre Oakley
Keynote Speakers
George Lin – Chair of Geography, University of Hong Kong
Dr. Lin’s research interests include China’s urban development and urbanization, land use and land management, the growth of urbanism, rural industrialization and regional development in the Pearl River Delta. He is the author of Red Capitalism in South China: Growth and Development of the Pearl River Delta, Developing China: Land, Politics, and Social Conditions, and co-author of China’s Urban Space: Development under Market Socialism.
Kevin Ward – Professor of Human Geography and Director, Manchester Urban Institute
Dr. Ward’s research interest include urban policy and politics, neoliberal urbanism, policy mobilities and mutations, and geographies of work and employment. He is currently exploring the constitution of financial ‘models’ that have emerged in different areas of the world and that have been circulating as a means of funding infrastructure in the current economic condition.
Ananya Roy – Professor and Director of The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, UCLA Luskin
Dr. Roy’s scholarship has focused on urban transformations in the global South, with particular attention to the making of “world-class” cities and the dispossessions and displacements that are thus wrought. Her ongoing research examines what she calls the “urban land question”, in India, as well as in globally interconnected nodes across North and South.
Conference Schedule
Day One
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Attendees may chose to attend one of the following:
- New Horizons in Comparative Urban Theory
- Urban Spatial Inequalities: Global Perspectives
- Urban Commons: Perspectives, Issues, and Cases
Attendees may chose to attend one of the following:
- Universalizing Urban Theory?
- Rural-Urban Migration: Global Perspectives
- Everyday Life and Urban Experience
Attendees may chose to attend one of the following:
- Shifting Mobilities in Diverse Suburbanisms
- (Im)migrant Entrepreneurship and Urban Development in Global Cities
- Global Urbanism on the Edge: Displacement and Struggles for the City
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Day Two
Attendees may chose to attend one of the following:
- Comparing Urban Experiments, Legacies, and Failures
- Perspectives on Global Mega Urbanization
- City as Legal Innovator
Attendees may chose to attend one of the following:
- Governing the City through Projects
- Global Housing Markets, Politics and Policies
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Resilience
Attendees may chose to attend one of the following:
- Dialogues with Southern Urbanisms
- Gentrification, Inclusive (Re)Development, and Urban Policy in a Global Perspective
- Global Approaches to Urban Land Financing
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Registration for the 2019 Comparitive Urbanism Conference is free to all attendees. Please register by 1/1/2019.
There are numerous hotels and other accommodations available in downtown Atlanta as well as easy access to transit and interstate highways.
We are excited to host this year’s conference in Atlanta and hope you’ll visit some of our favorite spots around the city during your stay.