RC21 CONFERENCE 2013

Resourceful cities
Berlin (Germany), 29-31 August 2013
Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute for Social Science, Dept. for Urban and Regional Sociology


21. Making up cities: urban policy mobilities, assemblages and urban politics in a global age

Organizer: Allan Cochrane (a), Claire Colomb (b) (a: The Open University, b: The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London)

Session 21.1 Making up cities: urban policy mobilities, assemblages and urban politics in a global age (Paper session I)

Alan Mabin (University of the Witwatersrand)
Three cases of assemblage - making up the past and future city in São Paulo, Paris and Johannesburg

Vincent Béal (a), Renaud Epstein (b), Gilles Pinson (c) (a: Université de Strasbourg, b: Université de Nantes, c: Sciences Po Lyon)
Legitimacy in motion: the production and circulation of models within French urban policies

Julie Pollard (a), Charlotte Halpern (b) (a: Université de Lausanne ,b: Centre d'Etudes Européennes de Sciences Po)
Making up the neoliberal city: the role of urban market actors

Gordon MacLeod (Durham University)
New Urbanism-Smart Growth in the Scottish Highlands:

Session 21.2 Making up cities: urban policy mobilities, assemblages and urban politics in a global age (Paper session II)

Kevin Ward (University of Manchester)
Financing urban redevelopment: the urban policy mobilitiesand immobilities of the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) model

Mona Harb (American University of Beirut)
Resourceful Policy Assemblages, Reshuffled Urban Politics: The Case of Local Strategic Plans and Municipal Unions in Lebanon

Nik Theodore (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Restricting movements: Right-wing think tanks and anti-immigrant lawmaking in the US

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata (University of Gothenburg)
Urban policy mobilities and local translations of compliance and contestation within development-aid regeneration programs. The case of the Acahualinca Integrated Development Programme in Managua, Nicaragua.

RT 21.1 Making up cities: urban policy mobilities, assemblages and urban politics in a global age (Young Researchers' Roundtable)

Antonie Schmiz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Circulating Urban Politics Towards Migration

Oscar Sosa Lopez (University of California, Berkeley)
Metropolis in Motion: Urban Mobility and the Politics of Infrastructure in Marcelo Ebrard’s Mexico City

Julie Ren (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
At the intersection of policy mobility and mobile actors: ‘Creative class’ subversions in transnational comparative perspective – A study of art spaces in Berlin and Beijing

Astrid Wood (University College London)
Methods and Motivations for Exploring Policy Circulation in South African Cities

Sabine Barthold (Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin)
The Global Re-Scaling of Urban Ecological Governance. the Role of Global City Networks in Interurban Knowledge Production and Policy Transfer

Guillermo Jajamovich (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Between Barcelona and Buenos Aires: Puerto Madero as a controversial process of circulation of urban policy.

Frank Müller (a), Laura Kemmer (b) (a: desiguALdades.net, b: Free University Berlin)
Diversity as a Resource? Decolonizing Urban Development Policies in Berlin-Neukölln and Mexico City

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