RC21 CONFERENCE 2013

Resourceful cities
Berlin (Germany), 29-31 August 2013
Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute for Social Science, Dept. for Urban and Regional Sociology

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34. Massification

Session 34.1

Organizer: Alan Harding (Director, Heseltine Institute for Public Policy and Practice, University of Liverpool Management School, UK)

Chair: Enrico Gualini (Chair of Planning Theory and Urban-Regional Policy Analysis, ISR – Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, Berlin University of Technology)

Alan Harding (Director, Heseltine Institute for Public Policy and Practice, University of Liverpool Management School, UK)
Why are urban hierarchies stretching? An outline proposal for empirical work based on the notion of urban massification

Michael Storper, University of California, Los Angeles, London School of Economics, Sciences Po., Paris
The divergence of urban economies

Patrick Le Gales (a) Adrian Favell (b), Tomasso Vitale (c) (a: Director of Research, CNRS Centre d'Etudes Européennes, Sciences Po., Paris; b: Professor of Sociology and Centre d'Etudes Européennes. Sciences Po., Paris; c: Associate Professor of Sociology and Researcher, Centre d'Etudes Européennes, Sciences Po., Paris
Beyond the neo-liberal global city: TOKİ and the political economy of housing- and construction-driven growth in Istanbul

Asato Saito (Institute of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University, Japan)
The politics of ‘massification’ in Tokyo: the causes and consequences of urban re-scaling

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