Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting

Dear colleagues,

Due to a recent cancellation of one of our speakers we have an opening for another paper in the
second of two sessions under the theme of Delivering Sustainable Buildings and Communities:
questioning sector-led urban regeneration and development policy implementation. We would welcome
any new abstracts to fill this void in order to maintain the structure of 4 papers + discussant in
each session. It is very close now to the AAG deadline for registering the session and all intended
participants, so we would appreciate if any interested persons could please send us their abstract
and AAG PIN by no later than 4 pm Tuesday 30th October.

Best,

Susan Moore and Susannah Bunce

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING

Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Boston, April 15-19, 2008

Delivering Sustainable Buildings and Communities: questioning private sector-led
urban regeneration and development policy implementation

Recent convergences between the public and private sectors in the implementation
of sustainable urban regeneration and development schemes raises questions
pertaining to the role of private development interests in the formulation and
delivery of planning and growth management related policies. Increasingly, such
policies support a streamlined planning and development process that ameliorates
conditions for private sector developers in the construction and development of
sustainable buildings and communities, and strengthens the role of private
sector planners, architects, and urban designers in local policy networks. The
public sector reliance on the private sector’s finance, skills, and resources
in the delivery of a sustainable built environment is increasingly viewed as
problematic as we witness the proliferation of less than optimal sustainability
performances, rising land values, and expensive housing developments in certain
new and regenerated areas of towns and cities. Generic design,
inequitable access to sustainable spaces, unchecked costs, market premiums, and
un(der)regulated design standard compliance (among other issues) are
complicating the intentions of policy and decision-makers espousing the private
sector delivery of the ‘public good’ of sustainability. This session welcomes
(but is not limited to) papers on the following topics and themes:

- Public-private relations and arrangements in the provision of sustainable
buildings and communities
- Sustainable urban regeneration policies and the real estate industry
- Private sector use of sustainable building rating systems
- Regulation v. voluntarism in the promotion of sustainable planning and
development
- Role of private sector planners, architects, and/or urban designers in
provision of sustainable buildings and communities
- Sustainable urban regeneration policies and social equity
- Internationalisation of private development and the complications this has for
private sector-led policy implementation
- Politics of ‘responsibility’ in the pursuit of sustainable urban development

Please send paper abstracts of no more than 250 words, with name and contact
information to both session organizers by September 30, 2007:


Susan Moore Susannah Bunce
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales York University, Toronto, Canada
MooreS6@cardiff.ac.uk sbunce@yorku.ca