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THE URBANIZATION of (IN)JUSTICE: Public spaces in uncertain geographies

The University of Cyprus, Department of Architecture invites you to the annual meeting of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)’s Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, which will take place in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Nicosia in the period between 16th and 18th May 2018. This meeting is organized in parallel to the Cyprus Network of Urban Morphology conference, “Urban Morphology in South-Eastern Mediterranean Cities: challenges and opportunities”. The purpose of this meeting is to unfold, discuss, rethink and challenge prevailing discourses about “just” or “unjust” processes of urban transformation from the perspective of public space. We look forward to a critical and constructive debate on the research, policy and public agendas about this issue to contribute to the academic and public discussions on the role of public space to achieve “just” cities.

Topics include among others:

• Public space in relation to urban just and unjust conditions, today and through time
• Public space and equity, public space and diversity, public space, identity, spatiality and power
• Re-thinking public space through the connections between notions of justice, social relations, and spatial form
• Responses to unjust urban patterns in form of emerging practices of self-organization and negotiations of difference in cities’ public spaces
• Role of actors in the production of public space.
• Everyday practices of establishing spatial justice and injustice
• Creation of subjectivities in or with public space
• Politics of public space

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