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Call for papers EURA 2008 conference - Milan, 9-11 October 2008

07-01-2008

Between 9-11 October 2008 EURA (European Urban Research Association) will organise its annual conference. The title of the upcoming conference is 'Learning Cities in a Knowledge Based Society'. It will focus on the exploration of several of today's major challenges for cities. It will foster a lively exchange and debate among researchers in the field of urban studies, particularly pointing at interactions among forms of knowledge and forms of urban governance. EURA invites interested parties to submit one abstract of 200-400 words for this conference.

European cities are engaged in difficult and challenging processes of social, economical, institutional and territorial change. Contemporary cities can be considered as learning places under different points of view:

as central nodes of a knowledge based economy, where concentration and exchange of information and innovation generated by people and firms produce new forms of economy, welfare and richness, but also new forms of poverty and exclusion;
as social laboratories, places which expose continuously their citizens to the effects of social transformation: laboratories in which the notion of citizenship is questioned and people have to learn to deal with change and the multiplication of differences generated by a mobile, multicultural society;
as settings for institutional and political innovation: where major transformations compel institutions to face with new emerging problems of contemporary society and to develop new learning skills and experience, new forms of governance, leadership, democracy, policies and politics.

The call for papers is structured around four axes, which will constitute the base for the organisation of the four main tracks of the conference:

Emerging spatial planning practices
Economic development and urban change
Learning through governance
Integration and cohesion in knowledge-based urban societies

Deadline for the submission of abstracts is 29th February 2008. Please submit your abstract on the EURA 2008 website.

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