[Bilimsel Haber] A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and the New Metropolis

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

	*A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and the New Metropolis*
*Location:* 	Virginia
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Call for abstracts (due by April 30, 2007, submission opens January 1,
2007)

International conference
Reston, Virginia, USA
April 6-April 8, 2008

A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and the New Metropolis

Hosted by Dr. Robert Lang (Metropolitan Institute), Dr. Paul Knox
(Virginia Tech), and Dr. Edward Blakeley (University of Sydney)

We have entered a new era where the areas outside worldwide core cities
are forming different settlement systems. In Europe, even tight building
controls have not curbed the appetite of households to move out of the
central cities. China and India, with fast-growing middle classes, are
witnessing a startling expansion of their urban areas with rapid
auto-dependent growth on the fringe. Mexico and Indonesia are beginning
to adapt American-style suburban development patterns. As urban form
changes, new research and policy have to be created to address the
challenges of sprawl, congestion, and affordable housing. This
conference will explore these and other issues in the American as well
as international context.

Tracks:

# Immigration/Changing Demographics of the Suburbs
# Special Segregation by Lifestyle/Economics; Gated Communities
# Megapolitans/Metropolitan Form
# Transportation
# Energy Consumption/Sustainable Environment
# Disasters/Adaptation
# Transnational Communities/Residential Tourism
# Governance & Regulation
# Business of Suburbia/Economic Development/Economic Space
# Suburban Decline
# Urban Form at the Neighborhood Level
# Newburbia/Newtowns
# History

	Katrin B. Anacker
Post Doctoral Fellow
Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech
Suite 100
1021 Prince St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
USA

e. kanacker at vt.edu
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fx. 703.518.8009

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