Cities locked in networks
Warsaw, Poland: 21-24 June, 2017
The 2017 EURA Conference has been held in Warsaw, Poland.
“The proposed theme relates to the issue of networks, widely discussed in urban science. ‘Network’ is a general notion used in many context – spatial, economic, social, and political. We propose to look at the network through the lens of institutions what is expressed in the title by the lock-in concept. It brings historical perspective to the discussion and tends to enquire on sustainability and mechanisms of changes in urban developments. Following an often quoted Castells’s methaphor of space of flows we recognize cities not only as nodes concentrating those flows, but also as political agents entangled into innumerable networks encompassing globalised world.”
Within this approach we propose tracks:
Track 1. City locked in metropolitan regions
Track 2. Cities locked in economy
Track 3. Cities locked in Europeanisation
Track 4. Cities locked in physical space
Track 5. Cities locked in globalisation and global changes
Track 6. Cities locked in democratic institutions
The local organizer is the University of Warsaw, who is celebrating its 200-years anniversary in 2016-2017.
