Localism: an opportunity for home building and community cohesion?
Papers are invited from early career researchers in town and regional planning and related disciplines for ‘Localism: an opportunity for home building and community cohesion?’, the second conference organised by the Department of Town and Regional Planning Research School at the University of Sheffield, taking place on the Friday 25 May 2012, at the university’s Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences.
The Localism Bill brings to the fore the tension between development and local empowerment. The rhetoric surrounding the bill promotes an increase in housing supply in a manner that places the local community in direct contact with the planning process. Improving community cohesion at all levels of society is part of the Big Society objective and will be impacted upon by local development. This conference is designed to explore some of the tensions between economic growth, home building and local community cohesion.
Keynote speakers, including Professor Ian Cole, Sheffield Hallam University and Professor Nick Johnson, Urban Splash and the University of Sheffield, will provide a variety of theoretical and grounded perspectives on the conference themes. Additionally workshops will be used to explore a range of issues surrounding the conference theme from four perspectives: housing economics and home building; community cohesion and justice; planning for ‘Localism’ and housing lessons from non UK situations. The conference provides the opportunity for early career researchers, whether PhD students or researchers from outside academia, to present their research in a friendly and constructive environment. Each of the workshops will be supported by an academic member of staff from the University of Sheffield and will provide supportive and robust feedback.
Offers of papers, a title and 200 word abstract, should be emailed to a member of the conference committee (contact details below) by 25 April 2012. We welcome papers covering the conference themes and also dealing with any other aspect of research corresponding to the four workshops. The conference fee is £15, covering attendance, lunch and an evening drinks reception. Places are limited and will be offered on a first come, first served basis, please email either Richard Dunning or Chris Maidment if you are interesting in attending. Thanks to the support of the Housing Studies Association five bursaries are also available, covering the full cost of the conference fee and up to £25 towards travel arrangements.
Book here for the conference.
10:00 Registration opens
10:30 Plenary - Ian Cole (Sheffield Hallam)
11:15 Coffee
11:30 Presentation Groups
A: Ann Kolodziejski, Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat, Martin McNally
B: Katherine Brookfield, Rachel Bland, Maxwell Ayamba
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Presentation Group
C: Sarah Payne, Edward Hogg, Matthew Thompson
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Plenary and Panel Discussion - Nick Johnson (Urban Splash)
17:00 Drinks reception
Conference Committee:
Richard Dunning r.j.dunning@sheffield.ac.uk
Chris Maidment c.maidment@sheffield.ac.uk
Andrew Grayson a.g.grayson@sheffield.ac.uk
Hannah Bayfield hannah.bayfield@sheffield.ac.uk
Joanne Oldfield j.oldfield@sheffield.ac.uk
TRP Seminar Series Programme Spring Semester 2012
Unless stated, seminars run from 3.30pm
14 March Ron Johnston Room, Geography and Planning Building
Marco Allegra, Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, University of Lisbon, Bridging the utopias. Planning and politics in metropolitan Jerusalem: the case of Ma'ale Adummim
16 April Room D3c, Geography and Planning Building
Laurence Rocher, Institut d’Urbanisme de Lyon, University of Lyon 2, Cities facing climate change : public policies, adaptation strategies and urban planning
25 April Room D3c, Geography and Planning Building
Janice Barry, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, Adaptive collaborative arrangements and rigid 'texts'? Aboriginal peoples and strategic natural resource planning in British Columbia, Canada
2 May Ron Johnston Room, Geography and Planning Building
Barbara Prainsack Department of Sociology and Communications, Brunel University, Wise crowds and wicked problems: Can participatory knowledge production help solve social problems?
8 May ICOSS Seminar Room
Department of Geography/Sheffield International Development Network Workshop, Cities in the Global South.
Susan Parnell (University of Cape Town), Owen Crankshaw (University of Cape Town), Dan Hammett (Sheffield), Glyn Williams (Sheffield), Paula Meth (Sheffield), Steve Connelly (Sheffield)
16 May Ron Johnston Room, Geography and Planning Building
Elif Alkay, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical University. An Economic analysis of residential area transformation in Istanbul.
All seminars are free and open to the general public.