WORKSHOP: GATED AND GUARDED HOUSING IN EASTERN EUROPE Call for Abstracts Location: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig, December 5-6, 2008
In recent years many Eastern European agglomerations have experienced a boom of gated and guarded housing complexes. While in some cities the proliferation of gated and guarded housing has just started and is currently speeding up, in other urban areas it already represents the dominant type of newly-built residential developments. The emergence of this new kind of housing type which was little-known before 1989 raises a multitude of questions for urban researchers who deal with topics like privatisation of urban space, segregation in post-socialist cities, urban fear in transformation societies, social inequality and socio-spatial exclusion/ inclusion. Considering the variety of issues that can be discussed with regard to gated and guarded housing in Eastern Europe, we would like to suggest a range of questions that this workshop wants to address: - What are the specific driving forces of gated and guarded housing in Eastern Europe? - Which historic patterns of housing and security during socialism may be regarded as predecessors for this development? - How does the term gated community apply to the gated and guarded housing complexes in post-socialist urban areas? - Who is living behind the gates and why? What are the motives and strategies of developers to build such complexes? - Is gated and guarded housing a symbol for a new form of urban governance in post-socialist cities? - How are gated and guarded housing complexes perceived by the public? What kind of discourses can be found? - How can gated and guarded housing complexes in Eastern Europe be methodologically and conceptually understood? One aim of organising this workshop is to create a platform that should help to exchange ideas, approaches and results on gated and guarded housing in Eastern Europe. Furthermore, this workshop attempts to be a starting point for a research network on gated and guarded housing and privatisation of residential developments in Eastern Europe. We have chosen the term workshop for this meeting, because it should not be limited to presentations of projects and research approaches. Instead, we conceive it as a meeting which discusses concepts, terms and questions that are essential in this field of research and additionally provides a first step for comparative analysis on gated and guarded housing in Eastern Europe. Therefore we would like to invite researchers from different scientific disciplines (e.g. geographers, sociologists and planners) who are working on different aspects related to gated and guarded housing in Eastern Europe. Empirical studies in progress as well as conceptual papers are most welcome. In particular, we would like to encourage young researchers to hand in their abstracts! Deadline for the submission of abstracts is August 31st, 2008. Abstracts must be limited to 300 words or less. Please submit your abstracts to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact: If you have any other queries please contact Christian Smigiel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Phone: +49-341-255-6564 sursa:contact -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://www.oberliht.org.md . . . . . . . . . . . http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list [email protected] http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
