{"id":630,"date":"2018-04-16T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T08:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=630"},"modified":"2018-04-16T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T08:42:32","slug":"alternatives-to-the-present-a-conference-on-architecture-urbanism-sociology-development-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to the Present. A Conference on Architecture, Urbanism, Sociology, Development &#038; Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"sfeventDatesLocationContacts\">\n<li><strong>Dates:<\/strong>\u00a013 Apr \u2013 05 Jun, 2018<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Cleveland, Ohio, United States<\/li>\n<li data-sf-field=\"ContactWeb\" data-sf-ftype=\"ShortText\"><strong>Website:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/architecturemps.com\/full-text-cleveland\/\">http:\/\/architecturemps.com\/full-text-cleveland\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"sfeventContent sfcontent\" data-sf-field=\"Content\" data-sf-ftype=\"LongText\">\n<p><strong>Kent State University, Cleveland\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>01-02 November 2018\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0Abstracts: 05 June 2018.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/architecturemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Name_Surname_Summary-Title_Abstract_Cleveland.docx\">Download form<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Alternatives to the Present\u2026\u2026 The New Urban Agenda of the United Nations presents itself as a blueprint for governments globally. Through it,\u00a0<strong>UN-Habitat<\/strong>\u00a0seeks to combine the material, social and environmental agendas molding the urban world. The\u00a0<strong>American Planning Association<\/strong>\u00a0reflects this, advocating for planning that promotes social equity, inclusive communities, and expanded opportunities for all. The\u00a0<strong>International Union of Architects<\/strong>\u00a0speaks of revolutionizing design to ensure sustainable human settlement, while the\u00a0<strong>AIA<\/strong>\u00a0champions livable communities. In the UK, the\u00a0<strong>RIBA<\/strong>\u00a0links housing design and social inclusion and the\u00a0<strong>National Housing Federation<\/strong>\u00a0connects the provision of homes to public health. All this reflects the field of sociology and geography with the\u00a0<strong>ISA<\/strong>identifying cites as the\u00a0principle site of social conflict and political contestation\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>American Association of Geographers<\/strong>\u00a0linking the notions of resilience and urban justice.<\/p>\n<p>This apparently holistic view suggests that 20th Century top-down and disciplinary reductive understandings of the urban condition, such as those attributed to the Athens Charter, are a thing of the past. It also suggests a scenario in which social equity is fully integrated into notions of development. However, even a cursory glance at the reality of early 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Century urbanism shows this is clearly not the case. On the one hand, individual disciplines still tend to work in isolation and even in competition, while on the other, Neoliberal agendas still represent the raison d\u2019\u00eatre of most development projects. The\u00a0<em>Alternatives to the Present<\/em>\u00a0conference seeks to critique the dichotomies involved in this increasingly confused scenario by bringing together various disciplines to interrogate the diversity of factors either limiting or activating the possibilities of an equitable urban future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dates:\u00a013 Apr \u2013 05 Jun, 2018 Location:\u00a0Cleveland, Ohio, United States Website:\u00a0http:\/\/architecturemps.com\/full-text-cleveland\/ Kent State University, Cleveland\u00a0 \u00a0 01-02 November 2018\u00a0 \u00a0Abstracts: 05 June 2018.\u00a0\u00a0Download form Context: Alternatives to the Present\u2026\u2026 The New Urban Agenda of the United Nations presents itself as a blueprint for governments globally. Through it,\u00a0UN-Habitat\u00a0seeks to combine the material, social and environmental agendas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}