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Wednesday 24 October 2007

CFP: CITIES AND URBAN REGIONS OF LATIN AMERICA

Call for papers 2008 AAG Meeting Boston
Session: CITIES AND URBAN REGIONS OF LATIN AMERICA

Please contact one of the Co-Organizers:
Joel Outtes, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, email: Outtes@uol.com.br
Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email: besmith@eiu.edu

We invite participants for a session on urban topics in Latin America to
take place at the annual meeting of the AAG in Boston, April 15-19, 2008.
(www.aag.org) Contact us if interested. Papers might explore, but not be
limited to:

Economic restructuring and its spatial impacts
Changing urban morphology
Housing
Population density
Transnational linkages
Urban hierarchies
Historic city centers
Urban historical geography
Ethnic neighborhoods
City planning in Latin America
Criminality
Informal sector
Metropolitan transportation
Urban environmental problems
Social conflicts
Participatory budgets and city planning
Urban social movements
Urban social geography
The International Planning Movement
International planning institutions in Latin America

After registering for the conference at
http://aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/registration.htm and submitting your
abstract for a paper session, forward a copy of the abstract and your PIN
number to:

Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email: besmith@eiu.edu

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