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partnership of a range of ‘learning stakeholders’. This session seeks to explore thenature and potential of these convergences drawing on theory and practice.6. The Impact of Im/migration on Urban Culture, Public Arts and Public SpaceJerome Krase (Brooklyn College The City University of New York, USA)JKrase@brooklyn.cuny.eduTimothy Shortell (Brooklyn College The City University of New York, USA)shortell@brooklyn.cuny.edu,How have urban culture, public arts and public space changed as a consequence of theinflux of new and different groups into cities around the world? Included in these newand different groups is the development of "life style" neighborhoods such as those ofGays and Lesbians as well as those of international migrants. One might also considerhow the enrichment of urban cultures will suffer as a consequence of the burgeoningglobal financial crisis as some groups leave, and others become even moremarginalized. For example one can see in New York City an increase in the number of"homeless" Latin American migrants who once flocked to the city to work indisappearing low-paid service jobs. Similar processes of social and economicadjustment are taking place in Chinese cities such as Shenzhen and can be connectedto anti-migrant violence in South Africa where migrants had taken over spaces vacatedby South African citizens in the most marginal of townships. This session providesopportunity for presentations diverse in both subject and format.7. A Home in the City: The City and its HomesCatrine Andersson (Uppsala University, SWEDEN) Catrine.Andersson@ibf.uu.seMats Franzen (Uppsala University, SWEDEN) Mats.Franzen@ibf.uu.seEva Sandstedt (Uppsala University, SWEDEN) Eva.Sandstedt@ibf.uu.seWe are living in a time witnessing the multiplication of household and family forms. Thisdynamic process, fueled by the simultaneous changes in gender relations and lifecourse regime, implies changes not only at home, but also in the use of public urbanspace, perhaps becoming most visible in the transformation of consumption patterns.In parallel to this multiplication, we see the fragmentation of the fordist city, and theemergence of the much more complex post-fordist city. Consequently, the relationshipbetween the home and the city may vary considerably depending on e.g. type ofhousehold in terms of size and social composition (age, gender, class, ethnicity etc.),size, type and location of the dwelling, as well as atmosphere and type of city. While wedo know a lot about family oriented suburbia, urban gay communities, etc., we arelacking anything like a comprehensive and systematic knowledge about variations in therelationship between the home (the living) and the city. This session ventures into thisrelationship, welcoming papers working at it from the public side as much as thoseworking at it from the private side, thus trying to bridge the private-public divide in ourthinking and explore its implications for our knowledge of the city and the home.4
8. The Upsurge of Urban Waterscapes: Theoretical and Empirical InvestigationsSusanne Frank (Dortmus University of Technology, GERMANY) susanne.frank@tudortmund.deSandra Huning (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities,GERMANY) huning@bbaw.deThe new role and meaning of “water” in urban restructuring and design is a commonfeature of countless cities around the globe – be it the redevelopment of quaysides andshipyards for housing and leisure or the transformation of exhausted opencast pits intoartificial urban lakes. The material and symbolic production of urban waterscapes is acontradictory and often contested process. While it can foster greater cohesion, veryoften it generates new forms of political conflicts, especially when competing notions ofurban (social and/or environmental) justice come into play. The upsurge of urbanwaterscapes also points to larger discussions about a general return of “nature” intourban development and planning. The session focuses on urban waterscapes as a keyto understand significant new trends in contemporary urban development. It seekstheoretical and empirical investigations which use urban waterscapes as meaningfuldelineators of changes in urban social and spatial power relations, political regulationand environmental imagination.9. Industry Clusters and Transnational NetworksRichard Child Hill (Michigan State University, USA) hillrr@msu.eduIndustry clusters have been a focal point of urban economic development policy forsome time now. Recently, a new “transnational phase” in industry cluster policy hasemerged in which clusters in two or more countries join together in diverse resourcesharing and political-economic decision-making. Collaboration among clusters is ofteninitiated and facilitated by quasi-governmental “networking” organizations. Governmentagencies and nonprofits participate in the project along with business enterprises.Decision-making, divisions of labor and funding are organized across transnational,national, regional and local scales and among multiple institutional arenas. In theprocess new forms of urban economic governance seem to be emerging. This sessionwelcomes papers that address these kinds of transnational linkages among industryclusters, from the vantage point of participating countries and cross-nationally, andexplore their significance for urban politics, policy and development.10. Cities, Violence and the Challenges of Global GovernanceSophie Body-Gendrot (University of Paris-Sorbonne, FRANCE) bodygend@wanadoo.frDespite all their assets and resources, large cities have conflict wired into urban spaceitself. The reasons are numerous: extreme inequalities, fascination and rejection suchcities provoke, the diversity of flux in urban spaces, segregation, instability and loss ofbearings. In some cities, delinquency and daily violence define specific urban areas andfuel a sense of danger. In other cities, various forms of racism lead to physical, socialand economic exclusion. Cities are also magnets for suicide-bombers. This sessionfocuses on (1) the different challenges and forms such threats present for cities and (2)5
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