The resurgent city
Dublin Core
Sujet
, renouvellement urbain, infrastructures, économie, ségrégation urbaine, mixité sociale, sécurité, culture urbaine, gestion locale, ville durable, aménagement urbain, habitants, interaction sociale
Description
The majority of the papers presented at the 2004 conference 'The resurgent city', held at the London School of Economics, are available for download as PDF files.
Organisers' description :
This Leverhulme-funded international symposium aims to engender a new debate about:
* the implications of the much heralded resurgence of cities in advanced societies, and
* what is actually required to realise this goal on a sustained basis, in different kinds of places.
Its starting point is the widespread consensus across academic and policy communities that globalisation, more intense quality-based competition and the rise of the knowledge economy are restoring the economic role of face-to-face contact - and thus of cities, as offering the richest possibilities for such interaction.
Behind this consensus, different views about the key characteristics of successfully resurgent cities, point to real tensions in the ways that cities may develop, and many unanswered questions about how such resurgence is to be achieved in practice. The focus of this meeting is on addressing these unanswered questions through interaction between researchers and practitioners from different disciplines and perspectives.
The aim is to build the basis for more productive co-operative work on these issues across the academic and policy communities, rather than to achieve instant fixes for either the intellectual or practical problems.
