York University, Toronto | Room 519 Kaneff | November 1-2, 2022
Online | December 15, 2022
Hosted locally by the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and the City Institute at York University.
Hosted online by The Melbourne School of Design at The University of Melbourne.
This seminar focuses on examples of present and planned future peripheral centralities. It explores their meaning and function in a changing urban and suburban landscape. It aims to reappraise suburbanisation processes and their outcomes, and to inform how we theorize the urban/suburban in academic discourse.. The seminar is hosted by York University and is held in Toronto, Canada.
Program
DAY 1 | Tuesday, November 1 | |
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9:30 | Opening Remarks | Roger Keil, Paul Maginn, Nick Phelps |
10:00 – 11:30
| Chair: Nick Phelps Julien Aldhuy, Sophie Didier, Loïc Vadelorge (and students) Peripheral centralities in Val d'Europe, east of Paris: the logics of assemblage between Disneyland Paris and New Town principles of planning Aseem Inam Redesigning Peripheral Centralities: An Experiment in Toronto
Maik Kiesler, Floris Bernhardt Beyond the Hierarchy. Finding and Exploring Genuine Centralities in German Metropolitan Regions |
11:30 – 11:45 | Break |
11:45 – 13:15
| Chair: Paul Maginn Astrid Safina Centering the inconspicuous. Retrieving a central role from peripheral and alternative global spaces in Aspropyrgos
Julie Cidell Katherine Perrott Rendering density: Power of illustrations and illustrations of power |
13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch |
14:15 – 16:15
| Chair: Katherine Perrott Sophia Ilyniak Back on the map? De/centering the ‘community benefit’ in Weston, Ontario
Erica Dorn Building Affection for Suburbs Through Civic Infrastructure
Sara Macdonald, Cara Chellew & Sean Hertel The peripheral centralities of greenbelts |
16:30 – 17:30 | Book launch After Suburbia |
19:00 | Dinner downtown |
DAY 2 | Wednesday, November 2 | |
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10:00 – 11:30
| Chair: Brian Doucet Frédéric Mercure Jolette, Clarence Hatton-Proulx, Sophie L. Van Neste From Oil Refinery to Golf and Green Park: The Quest for Peripheral Autonomy in a Changing Metropolitan Context Zachary Dark The Dam Headquarters as a Symbol of Eco-Modernism
Camilla Perrone Suburban regeneration via social inclusion and participatory design: Turning the prison of Florence (Italy) into e peripheral centrality |
11:30 – 11:45 | Break |
11:45 – 13:15
| Chair: Roger Keil Steven Logan Time out of Space: Data Centres and Co-Working Spaces on the GTA Periphery Brian Doucet, Emma McDougall, Aleksandra Petrovic, Martine August From central peripheries to peripheral centralities: gentrification, displacement and light rail transit in Waterloo Region Martina Loi Tales from the road. An experience of critical visual narration along the road SS 554 |
13:15 – 15:15 | Lunch – Trip to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre and SmartCentres led by Sean Hertel and Sally Chau, York Region. |
15:15 – 16:15
| Chair: tbd Luisa Sotomayor, Ryan Whitney Peripheral imaginations and infrastructural misfunctions: Electric escalators and policy mobility at the margins of Medellin and Mexico City
Hannes Langguth Same Same But Different: Chinese large-scale infrastructure investments and the (re-)making of peripheral centralities in Eastern Germany June Williamson Incremental Metropolitanism: An Assessment of Retrofitting Suburbia's Endgame |
16:45 | Final remarks: Next steps & publication plans | Phelps, Maginn, Keil |
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Seminar 3B Program - 15th December 2022, hosted via Zoom
Session 1
2.00pm – 4.00pm AEDT (Melbourne, GMT +11)
Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android:
https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/87163356314?pwd=OEtHWjRTcGF6eGxjYVl2NUVOZ0pydz09
Session 2
5.00 – 7.00pm AEDT (Melbourne, GMT +11)
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https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/86054037818?pwd=cHV1NWZOK0JPUlB1SGIrVEw4MjNXQT09
Session 3
7.30 – 9.30pm AEDT (Melbourne, GMT +11)
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https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/82413244278?pwd=azJZKzBUN0VhY081OEUrQ3dJeGNEQT09
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Peripheral Centralities: Lost, Past, Present and Future
A series of four seminars exploring the role of suburban peripheries in the expansion of cities, and their perception in the public imagination.
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Seminar 1: Peripheral Centralities - Lost and Past
September 23 and 24 2021, Online - Hosted by the University of Melbourne
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Seminar 2: Peripheral Centralities - Politics, Policy & Practice
16 Nov 2021, Melbourne, Australia
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Seminar 4: Peripheral Centralities – Centering (Sub)Urban Analyses: A PhD/ECR Workshop
Nov/Dec 2022 – Melbourne, Australia
Presented by:
The Urban Studies Foundation is a charitable organisation that provides grant funding to advance academic research and education in the field of urban studies.