Think metropole workshop – how large city-region thinking and action have been changing in diverse ways

THINK METROPOLE WORKSHOP – HOW LARGE CITY-REGION THINKING AND ACTION HAVE BEEN CHANGING IN DIVERSE WAYS

Date: Thursday, 4 March 2010
Time: 09:00 – 12:30
Venue: New Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, John Moffat Building, East Campus

The School of Architecture and Planning hosts Canada Research Chair professor in city politics, INRS University, Montreal, Canada, Prof. Julie-Anne Boudreau during a series of lectures on Developing knowledges of cities in decade two of the twenty-first century. Prof. Boudreau is Doctor of Urban Studies from the School of Public Policy and Social Research of the University of California at Los Angeles. Currently Associate Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Urbanisation Culture Société (INRS-UCS) in Montreal, and holder of the Canada Research Chair on the City and Issues of Insecurity. Her work focuses on the relationship between political mobilisation, urbanisation and state restructuring processes. Her various projects in Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, Paris, Brussels, and Hanoi interrogate this relationship from the angle of feelings of insecurity and the experience of mobility and displacement. Working with migrants, domestic workers, motobikers, street vendors, and youth, she explores how the city influences the formation of political subjectivities. She is co-Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) and has published numerous scientific articles. Her most recent book is entitled Changing Toronto: Governing urban neoliberalism (Univesity of Toronto Press, 2009), co-authored with Roger Keil and Douglas Young.

Please RSVP to Zakiyyah Ayob
Senior Secretary: Cubes
School of Architecture and Planning
University of the Witwatersrand
Tel: 011 717 7719
Fax: 011 717 7649
E-mail: zakiyyah.ayob@wits.ac.za