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Call for Participation
39th
Annual Meeting
Contesting and Sustaining the City:
Neighborhood, Region, or World
Chicago, Illinois
Renaissance Chicago Hotel
March 4-7, 2009
"Make no little plans. They have
no magic to stir [one's] blood. Make big plans; aim high in hope
and work, remembering that a nobler, logical diagram once recorded,
will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing...
Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty," Daniel
Burnham.
This was the message put forward at the turn
of the century by Chicago visionaries who sought to bring order
to what they saw as a chaotic and dangerous urban arena. The "well
designed" city would be comprehensively planned, with regional
transportation systems linking city to suburb, with accessible public
parks and civic centers, widened streets, well-placed iconic structures
and pleasantly designed water fronts. The "well planned"
city would enable sustainable growth and keep populations contented
within a visually appealing urban form. The "city beautiful"
movement sought to integrate the aesthetic and the pragmatic. In
Chicago such plans came together in 1909 in the Plan of Chicago,
better known as the "Burnham Plan," and it is considered
by many to be one of the most influential urban plans ever conceived.
And yet, with all their ambitious ideals,
others have considered plans such as these to be projects led by
corporate interests seeking to control and contain the voices of
an increasingly vocal urban working class and minority population.
In The Death and Life of
Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs was especially critical of
these early reform efforts, writing that, "There is a quality
even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner
quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring
or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist (15)."
One century later, and policymakers, planners
and scholars continue to debate the question of how we should govern
our cities. If we should plan our cities. What place should aesthetic
design hold in the process? Whom should we be building our cities
for? And with whom should we be making these kinds of decisions?
The twin forces of globalization and urbanization generate new contests
among city dwellers, and new challenges for policy makers seeking
to build the socially inclusive, environmentally sound and economically
sustainable city. The search for competitive advantage between neighborhoods,
cities and regions leads policy makers to focus more and more of
their attentions on projects geared to enhance "quality of
life." However, as the gaps between rich and poor continue
to grow, the question that is left is, "For whom do we craft
our urban world?" As policy makers seek to enhance their economic
position locally, nationally and internationally, they are faced
with a variety of tradeoffsleaving winners and losers. Contesting
and sustaining the city is the theme for the 39th Annual Meeting
of the UAA in Chicago, a perfect location for us to consider whether
cities should be tamed, sustained or nurtured. And if so, by and
for whom?
We encourage proposals that focus on the
conference theme as well as submissions on the array of research
topics typically found at UAA conferences:
- Arts, Culture, Media
- Economic Development, Redevelopment,
Tourism, Urban Economics,
Urban Finance
- Education, Schools, Universities
- Environmental Issues, Sustainability,
Urban Health, Technology and Society
- Globalization, International Urban
Issues
- Governance, Intergovernmental Relations,
Regionalism, Urban Management
- Housing, Neighborhoods, Community
Development
- Public Safety in Urban Areas, Criminal
Justice, Household Violence
- Immigration, Population and Demographic
Trends
- Infrastructure, Capital Projects,
Networks, Transport, Urban Services
- Labor, Employment, Wages, Training
- Land Use, Growth Management, Space
and Place, Urban Design,
Urban Development, Urban Planning
- Poverty, Welfare, Income Inequality
- Human/Social Services, Nonprofit
Sector
- Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Diversity
- Social Capital, Democracy and Civil
Society, Social Theory, Religion
and the City
- Urban Indicators, Data/Methods,
Satisfaction/Quality of Life Surveys
- Urban Politics, Elections, Citizen
Participation
- Urban Theory, Theoretical and Conceptual
Issues in Urban Affairs
- Professional Development, The Field
of Urban Affairs
Proposal DeadlineOctober
1, 2008
Proposals can be submitted for papers, panels (a group of 35
formal papers with moderator), colloquies (formal discussions without
papers) and breakfast roundtables (informal discussions). UAA submission
policies limit participants to one presentation/session role per
annual meeting. However, participants can be
co-authors on multiple
papers. Proposal submissions are accepted only online at the UAA
website: www.udel.edu/uaa. Online proposal submission opens August
1, 2008.
Registration Policy
and Rates
All participants (faculty, students, and practitioners) must pay
the appropriate fees for their membership category. There are no
one-day registration rates. Registration is completed online via
the UAA website (www.udel.edu/uaa) by credit card, personal check
or institutional check. Rates have not been set for the 2009 Annual Meeting. However, 2008 rates were $350/$405/$195 (member/nonmember/student)
for early registrants. Registration fees cover three receptions,
two lunches, three breakfasts and five coffee breaks. Registration
opens November 17, 2008
Hotel Accommodations
and Rates
The 39th Annual Meeting will be held at the Renaissance Chicago
Hotel. UAA is pleased to offer conference attendants a discounted
rate at the Renaissance: $169 single/$199 double, not including
state and local taxes (currently 15.4%). Reservations can be made
online at the Hotel Reservations webpage of this site.
Exhibitors
Exhibit space is provided on a first-come, first-serve basis. Early
contact with the UAA Office is advised. Fee information and space
reservations can be made through Shelly Tillinghast (shelviat@udel.edu).
Local Host Committee
David Perry, University of Illinois at Chicago (Chair)
Karen Mossberger, University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael Pagano, University of Illinois at Chicago
Curtis Winkle, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dennis Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago
Program Committee
Jill Simone Gross, Hunter College, City University of New York (Chair)
Gregory Andranovich, California State University, Los Angeles
Claire Poitras, INRS-Urbanisation, Culture et Société
Jocelyn Taliaferro, North Carolina State University
Michael Timberlake, University of Utah
UAA OfficeUniversity
of Delaware
Margaret Wilder, UAA Executive Director
Kay Seyedabbasi, Administrative Coordinator
Shelly Tillinghast, Conference Event Planner
Important Dates and
Deadlines
2009 Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting (March 4-7, 2009;
Chicago, Illinois)
August 1, 2008: Online proposal
submission opens
October 1, 2008: Deadline
for submitting a proposal
November 17, 2008: Acceptance/rejection
notices sent; registration opens
December 15, 2008: Early
registration payment deadline
January 12, 2009: Persons
on the program must register AND
pay fees by this date
UAA website: www.udel.edu/uaa (conference
registration, hotel reservations, etc.). Questions: 302-831-1681
(country code 001) or see
e-mail contact information.
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