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Centre for Urban Research (CURB)

The Post-Crash City

A high-profile conference series, spanning 2012 through 2013, which covers the contemporary crisis and changes in urban systems. Full details can be found within the document below:

Event Overview and Schedule: Post-Crash City Schedule (PDF , 155kb)

Next Event: Post-Crash City: Environments & Ecologies

For details about the event, please click on the appropriate tab. To register for this event, please follow the link below. The registration fee for the two-day conference is £80, which includes a lunch on both days, refreshments, and dinner and wine on Thursday evening. Research students can enjoy the discounted rate of £35, but valid student ID will be required.


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Context

The global financial crisis has provoked re-analysis of the limits and social harms associated with our economic systems and its relationship to urban life. The move to conditions of an economic reverse, a crash of arguably unprecedented scale, has been met with wavering commitments to expand and draw-back from the public financing of both private and state institutions. Proposals in many western and other countries globally for massive public cuts raise the prospect of economic stagnation and indeed social pain generated by the withdrawal of state supports for the most marginal members of society. This context presents important challenges to critical social analysis.

What will this crisis, and its unwinding in different social spheres and spatial contexts, mean for cities globally and nationally? How can we effectively monitor, critique and add to public debates, community action and institutional ways of thinking that might encourage more genuinely progressive and incisive diagnoses of the collapse of urban conditions? This conference series has been created to address these issues by creating a space for dialogue and the dis- semination of research and ideas around how urban life has and will continue to be transformed by this most recent and dramatic set of transformations in economic systems globally.