ESF Research Conferences

ESF-LiU Conference

THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW ISSUES

Chaired by

CHAIR:

BernardJouveE-Mail

CNRSUniversite de LyonEcole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'EtatLaboratoire RIVESVaulx-en-VelinFrance

http://www.entpe.fr/Dr/Rives/CV-Jouve.htm

VICE-CHAIR:

MarkPurcellE-Mail

University of WashingtonUrban Design and PlanningSeattleUnited States

http://www.caup.washington.edu/udp/f-purcell.html

Dates

11-15 October 2008

Location

Klosterhotel, Vadstena, Sweden
The conference will take place at Klosterhotel in Vadstena, Sweden. Vadstena is located in the south-eastern province of Östergötland, in a lovely natural setting on the shores of beautiful Lake Vättern, offering comfortable accommodation in a historic environment. During the Middle Ages, Vadstena was the location of a catholic monastery for monks and nuns of the Birgittine order and nowadays the conference center and hotel is largely located in the same medieval buildings that were once the monastery. With 5 600 inhabitants, Vadstena is 45 km from Linköping and 330 km from Stockholm. Group transportation will be arranged from/to Linköping airport, via Linköping train station, on arrival and departure days.

Final Programme & List of Accepted Participants

As it has been largely documented, modern states are facing political rescaling processes in which the roles and functions of the different levels of government are evolving. Thus city-regions are becoming central economic and political territories in which a new division of labour is occurring between the states and the local authorities. This tendency has been particularly analysed by the economic literature but also by geography, sociology and political science. At the same time, there is a large literature on the general tendency towards the pluralization of urban decision systems in different institutional, cultural, political and economic contexts. To say it briefly, these processes (i.e. political rescaling and participative democracy at local level) generate a new “right to the city”: the capacity to influence the agendas of urban public institutions by using “appropriate” demands based on the formulation of rights recognized as legitimate by urban institutions. The on-going process of the constitution of an “urban citizenship” involves a set of social demands which are, by definition, contradictory in that sense that the “right to the city” must be linked to the social groups and classes using it in order to organize themselves, to generate collective identity and collective action. The work program of the Conference addresses a number of empirical subjects, all vectors of a “right to the city”. Its objective is to compare the effects of these dynamics on the content of urban policies and on the transformation of citizenship regimes.  

ESF Research Conferences provide the opportunity for the world's leading scientists and other participants, including young researchers, to meet informally for discussions at the highest level on the most recent developments in their fields of research. They act as a catalyst for creating new synergistic contacts throughout Europe and the rest of the world. This conference will be of interest to academic and policy researchers in the field of higher education and to researchers in other relevant social science fields, e.g. science policy, regional development, governance, social equity.  

The conference will take place at Vadstena Klosterhotel, located in a lovely natural setting on the shores of beautiful lake Vättern, offering comfortable accommodation in a historic environment. During the Middle Ages, Vadstena was the location of a catholic monastery for monks and nuns of the Birgittine order and nowadays the conference center and hotel is largely located in the same medieval buildings that were once the monastery.

For more details about the sciencific content of this conference, please download the additional document here (PDF - 222 KB).

Abstracts, Posters & Short Oral Contributions

There will be no short talks other than those listed on the final programme.

List of Accepted Posters PDF (141 KB)

Recommended poster size is 100 cm high x 70 cm wide. Use letters and drawings that can be read from approximately 100 cm distance.

Group Transportation & Practical Information Guide

Detailed information on all practical aspects of the conference (access to site, registration & fee payments, accommodation, travel reimbursements...) is available from the Practical Information Guide. Please read it fully and carefully...

GROUP TRANSPORTATION
Two buses will be arranged on arrival day, Saturday 11 October, from Linköping to Vadstena as follows. The journey takes about 45 minutes.

Bus number 1 from Linköping airport, via Linköping train station:
Departure Linköping airport: 16.30 hrs
Departure Linköping train station: 17.00 hrs

Bus number 2 from Linköping airport, via Linköping train station:
Departure Linköping airport: 18.30 hrs
Departure Linköping train station: 19.00 hrs

Airport departure point: the meeting point is located just outside the small airport building. The coaches will have a sign in the window indicating “ESF Research Conferences” for easy recognition.

Train station departure point: the meeting point is located in the long distance bus terminal of the station. From the exit of the main building of the railway station, it is approximately 300 metres to the right.

Group transportation back to Linköping will be arranged in a similar way for the departure day.

Bus departure time on Wednesday 15 October: 8.30 am (to Linköping train station and airport).

ACCOMMODATION
Please note that SINGLE accommodation can only be guaranteed to invited speakers. All other participants will have to share a TWIN room. In case single rooms would become available at the time of the conference, rooms will be attributed on a “first come, first served” basis. Only the TWIN conference fee (EUR 730) should be paid to the ESF when registering. The supplement for single (EUR 150) should be paid to Vadstena Klosterhotel. Should you wish to be put on the waiting list for single accommodation, please contact Ms. Anne Blondeel-Oman.

Registration Form

For accepted participants and invited speakers only

All participants - including speakers & session chairs - are kindly expected to confirm their attendance (and, when applicable, to pay the conference fee) by filling in a Registration Form.
Closing date for registration & fee payment: 12 September 2008

Conference Fees

ESF Contact

AnneBlondeel-OmanE-Mail

Senior Conference Officer

Phone: +32 (0)2 533 2024
Fax: +32 (0)2 538 8486
Please quote 08-264 in any correspondence.

Partnership

This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with Linköping University.

With Support from

Links of Interest

• The European Urban Research Association (EURA) was launched at an international conference held in Brussels, Belgium in September 1997 with the objective of providing a forum for people from different disciplines and policy backgrounds to exchange information about findings from research on towns and cities as the basis for closer cooperation, encouraging interdisciplinary and cross-national approaches to research in and education for urban and regional studies as a professional and academic field and bridging the gap between academic, professional and policy interests to  inform public debate and improve the quality of urban policy
  

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