The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) and the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at UBC are jointly organizing an international symposium titled Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – The (Im)possibility of Design between March 10-12, 2016.
It has been 40 years since the first UN Habitat Forum was held here in Vancouver, BC. That Forum established the critical importance of cities for maintaining basic levels of social and ecological sustainability. What have we learned in those two generations? What has changed? What has stayed the same? This symposium offers a chance to both look back and look forward.
This symposium examines the linkages between global capital flows, urban policy initiatives, the waxing and waning of local democratic control, and the urban form that these three interacting factors make manifest. The ongoing world-wide rural to urban migration, combined with the Intensified competition for capital and influence among cities, is changing their shape, function, political processes, and demographic distribution. Vancouver, London, Dubai, and New York become festooned with new “cash boxes in the sky” – impressive high end residential developments stimulated not by those seeking homes, but by wealthy buyers hungry for safe investments in stable economies.
Key Dates
Call for Papers – Abstracts Due: December 15, 2015
Notification of Selected Abstracts: January 5, 2016
Early registration: November 15, 2015
Regular registration: February 1, 2016
Conference: March 10-12, 2016
Additional information regarding the symposium is available online.
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