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INURA
Workshop
Istanbul Workshop from March 11 to March 18, 2008
INURA
Conferences
INURA Conferences have taken place every year since 1991. They are a major platform for the exchange of experiences about urban research and action all over the world's cities. INURA Conferences are organised in turn by local INURA offices. The conferences aim at showing the processes and problems of the city visited during the conference and of course to further discussions and actions about urban issues.
Each year two bulletins are edited by the organisers of the annual conference and sent to INURA members.
Historical: Bulletin nr. 1 to 28 downloadable
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Publications
New INURA
book:
INURA
(eds.)(2004): The Contested Metropolis, 304 pages with 400 b/w illustrations.
ISBN 3-7643-0086-8
have a first
glance, click here
INURA members regularly publish books, journals, articles, videos,
reports and so on.
Here is a
list of publicatons that have been sent to the INURA Common Office.
- Confédération Construction
Bruxelles-Capitale (2001): Le logement à Bruxelles, vers une approche
qualitative. Rapport annuel 2001.
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Comune di Padova Assessorato alle politiche abitative (2001): Alchimie
Urbane. Ecologia urbana e partecipazione a Padova con il Contratto
di Quartiere Savonarola a cura di Sergio Lironi, Valerio Tridenti. Padova.
- Gene Desfor, Deborah Barndt and Barbara Rahder (eds.)(2001):
Just Doing It: Popular Collective Action in the Americas. Published
by: Black Rose
Just Doing It: Popular
Collective Action in the Americas includes: * critical reflections on
the ways communities are organizing their struggles for economic, social and
environmental justice, * practices of local community building, social movement
organizing and popular education in Mexico, Guatemala, the U.S. and
Canada, * contributions by: Emilie K.Adin, Emily Chan, Sheelagh Davis,
Sarah Koch-Schulte, W. Alexander Long, Egla Martinez-Salazar, Cindy
McCulligh and Galit Wolfensohn
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Paba, Giancarlo (2000): Principles and Methods for radical planning: Participation
as insurgent Planning Practice. by: Giancarlo Paba. In: Le Culture Dell'
Ambiente - Living City and Urban Space, Firenze
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Kwok Yan-Chi Jackie and Siu Kin-wai Michael (1998): The Production of Space
in Hong-Kong. Crabs. Hong-Kong In english and chinese
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Comune di Padova Assessorato alle politiche abitative (1998): Progetti
per una città sostenibile. Politiche abitative, esperienze di bioarichtettura
e urbanistica partecipatia a Padova a cura di Sergio Lironi, Valerio Tridenti.
Padova.
Past INURA events2004
May 11, 2004: Simultanous Book
Launch "the contested metropolis" in Berlin, Florence and Zurich
Berlin:
Ours was fine thanks to our great host at the wonderful bookstore pro qm (
www.pro-qm.de).We also did a successful mailing to 300 odd recipients , which
gained us
not a single unsubsribe but ten more interested possible inura members.The
bookstore did an additional mailing with 2.500 recipients. So the news is
out.(Jens Sambale)
Florence: the launch of the book yesterday afternoon was a good meeting
with an audience of about 60 persons. Alot of appreciation for our network,
some potential new reviews on journals and new comers for amsterdam or porto
alegre.. see you in Amsterdam (Raffaele Paloscia)
Zurich: Contested Metropolis was presented May 11, 2004, in the Stadtlabor
in Bogen 13. Stadtlabor is an 'Urban Laboratory', a regular event on Tuesday
evenings presenting talks, showing films, staging discussions around urban
issues. It is an interim-use bar located in a railway viaduct arch in Kreis
5, soon to be 'regenerated'. Our book launch started at 20.00 hours, right
after an urban safari through Kreis 5 organised by Stadtlabor, that ended
at the railwayarches. Some of the almost 100 people of the tour stayed for
the 'apéro' (drinks and snacks) and for the book launch. More people
came just for the book launch. About 60 people watched and listened to our
program: Andreas Wirz (author of the Kraftwerk article) opened the evening
and said a few words about INURA and the simultaneous book launch in several
cities.Mark Saunders showed a selection of his video oeuvre of the last 20
years. The authors, Andreas Wirz, Richard Wolff, Philipp Klaus and Christian
Schmid talked about the new book, some of the chapters and their experiences
in the cities of Zurich, London, Florence, and Toronto. The book store 'Paranoia
City' (yes, that's where one of the Zurich article's titles is taken from!)
sold a few books. There were a number of questions from the audience regarding
the book, INURA and the impact of INURA on the local city gover ment. After
a break and a short introduction to Luton and to the background of the Exodus
Collective, we showed the 45 Minutes 'Arte' version of Exodus - Movement of
Jah People', with German subtitles. The screening was a great success and
warmly applauded. The Zurich group was very happy with this evening and wishes
to thank all those that have contributed to this event, mainly the hosts of
Stadtlabor at Bogen 13. (Richard Wolff)
March 21, 2004 / TORONTO / INURA
Book launch, pannel discussion and film showing
The International Network of Urban Research and Action (INURA) and PlanningAction present:
THE CONTESTED METROPOLIS
- SIX CITIES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY - *BERLIN*BRUXELLES/BRUSSEL*FIRENZE*LONDON*TORONTO*ZÜRICH*
Book Launch This event marks the publication of the book THE CONTESTED METROPOLIS, edited by the Florence INURA group (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2004) An International Panel of Authors from the Book
Berlin: Ute Lehrer
Bruxelles/Brussel: Stefan De Corte
Firenze: Giancarlo Paba
Toronto: Kanishka Goonewardena
Zürich: Christian Schmid
Films
London/Brussels: Mark Saunders/Spectacle; Los Angeles: "Suckerfish: Privatizers
of Welfare" by Ernest Savage
FREE ADMISSION,
Blue Moon Pub, 725 Queen Street East (at Broadview), Toronto, 7:30 pm, Sunday, March 21, 2004
March 18 2004, PHILADELPHIA / 100th annual meeting of the Association of
America Geographers:
INURA Workshop
| 5103. Absent author meets live critics: Henri Lefebvre and the spirit of The Urban Revolution (Sponsored by International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA), Urban Geography Specialty Group) is scheduled on Thursday, 3/18/2004 from 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. |
2003
July 2-4, 2003: INURA Visit
Rhine/Ruhr,
Wednesday, July 2nd: Ruhr Area, Space
of Exploitation and Urban Experiments
Thursday, July 3rd: Civil Society in Action
Friday, July 4 th: Space of Fight against Privatization
of Public Affairs -> detailed programme
March
4-8, 2003:
INURA at the AAG-Meeting in New Orleans
A panel on "Berlin revisited",
organized by Ute Lehrer (INURA Buffalo) and sponsored by INURA, took place
at the American Association of Geographers, in New Orleans, March 4-8, 2003.
Participants were Ute Lehrer (Toronto/Buffalo),Geraldine Gardner (Los Angeles),
Jens Sambale (Berlin) and Volker Eick (Berlin), with concluding remarks by
John Jorgensen.
This panel discussed Berlin's
transformation since the fall of the Wall in 1989. While Berlin's transformation
might be read as a unique case in terms of political, economic and social
restructuring, a closer look brings to the foreground dynamics that are inherent
in many of today's cities. The panelists focused on the remake of Berlin's
spatial articulation as well as the redefinition of its social policies under
the framework of neo-liberalization and privatization.Ê The aim was
to examine critically the difference between the expectations articulated
by politicians, citizens and investors in the early days of a reunified city
and the current realities. The four panelists brought to the table the following
points for discussion: After introducing the panelists and trying to tie current
world events to the specific topic, Ute Lehrer looked at the spatial transformation
of the city and in particular at Potsdamer Platz. She argued that Berlin is
a paradigmatic city for using the built environment for image production.
What is somewhat new and intensified in rebuilding this city, is a commodification
of the building process; this commodification is accompanied by what Lehrer
calls a Îspectacularization of the building processâ. She concluded
that what is taking place in Berlin is also happening at other places. Geraldine
Gardner argued that Berlin's dominant development discourse appropriates cultural
images to help galvanize a development agenda that promotes the growth of
culture and innovation industries. Her contribution critically examined the
type of cultural images used in the promotion campaigns created by the City's
marketing company Partner für Berlin, a public-private partnership founded
in 1994. Jens Sambale and Volker Eick discussed findings of their research
project about non-profits in reshaping local social and labor market policies
in Berlin and Los Angeles. While Sambale presented recent economic trends
in Berlin and their possible policy implications, Eick discussed the new role
that emerged for nonprofits in the field of homeland security. Through workfare
programs, former unemployed and welfare recipients are now forced to work
as security guards against homeless, poor and 'drop outs' both in inner city
areas of high consumption as well as in residential areas that are seen as
'problematic'. In other words, the fiscal restraints of the city as well as
the governance model of self-regulation has let to a situation where the poor
are forced to police the poor. The session concluded with a discussion on
Berlin's social and spatial transformation and its relation to the politics
of local social movements.
2001
April 25-29, 200: INURA City Tour Belfast
INURA in conjunction
with the School of Environmental Planning, Queen's University Belfast, organised
an interesting 5-day study visit of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Details: click
here
INURA Database
One of INURA's important functions is to exchange information and inspire action. To help with this we are establishing an INURA-Database that includes information on the research projects, struggles and actions that help promote the INURA principles.
We therefore need your help: complete the Database Form with the following indications for the research projects and actions that they believe can inspire and inform people working in similar circumstances. Each form will be a maximum of one page and will have about 2-3000 characters.
INURA common projects and common research is in preparation. A group of five persons is in charge of this. Any interests, ideas, donations: contact@inura.org
