The Good City: Urban Transformation, Comparison and Value
The central focus of this conference will be on how scholars and policy makers can talk across cities and times (past, present and future) in normative but non-homogenizing ways. We therefore structure sessions to address the relationship between desirable values in urbanization and co-existing diverse themes (whether based in reality or perception) of the city. This approach embraces new efforts to quantify cities and catalogue comparative indicators for global urbanism, while also being critical of the dangers in setting universal standards. When pairing together desirable values for setting goals for urban futures with different themes for structuring urban comparison – documenting and narrating such values across time and space – we aim to account for multiple appropriate forms of urban life as well as universal aspirations for every context: what should your city be and become? Based on what principles and priorities? How can these principles and priorities be shared with other cities to set tailor-made goals and paths to meet those goals?
Date: 18 April 2018, 16:00
Venue: Venue to be announced
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Organiser contact email address: urbantransformations@compas.ox.ac.uk
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Booking required?: Not required
Booking url: https://www.utconference2018.org/register/
Booking email: urbantransformations@compas.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Peter Grant