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SOCIAL INEQUALITY, REDISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND THE CITYAmsterdam, 15-17 June 2001 Much of the program for the Amsterdam conference has been completed, and we look forward an excellent range of panels and papers. There will be ten panels and two working groups, already about one hundred papers abstracts have been submitted to session’s chairs. We are happy to see a wide rage of papers from different cities of the world with a good representation of young researchers. Given the large number of participants, authors will have a maximum of 15 minutes to present papers. These shall available for participants at the begining of the conference. Papers shall be sent to session´s chair by the 1st of April, 2001. The sessions organised and published in the previous Newsletter included. Poverty in Cities and Social Policies, Urban Inequalities and Social Segregation, Urban Movements, chair Chris Pickvance (C.G.Pickvance@ukc.ac.uk) New Forms of Urban Governance and Citizenship, Urban Tourism and Urban Regimes, Urban Labour Markets, Planning Values and the Built Environment, Urban Defensible Spaces./Coping With Danger, Two new sessions have been organised: - Impact of New Technologies on City Life This session offers the last call for papers since it was organised with less available time. Two working groups have also been organised: - Immigrant Entrepeneurship in Multicultural Cities (chair: Jan Rath) For further information contact: Marisol Garcia (soledadg@riscd2.eco.ub.es) |