Special Paper Sessions at the 2013 AAG Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, April 9-13, 2013.

Organizers: David W. Edgington (University of British Columbia) and
Carola Hein (Bryn Mawr College)

Two of the featured themes for the 2013 Annual Meeting of the AAG in Los Angles are “Emerging Asias” and “Global Urbanization”. Accordingly, we invite participants to a special paper session/s on “Japanese Cities in their Global Context”.

The objective of these sessions is to bring together papers that investigate Japanese cities and aspects of contemporary or historical patterns of development, governance, social and environmental issues,
with an eye to exploring their position in a wider global context. We welcome participation from a wide diversity of sub-disciplines, including geographers, GIS specialists, sociologists, urban planners, urban historians and architects who are working at the frontiers of their fields.

Papers on all aspects of research into Japanese cities are welcome.
Topics may include but are not limited to:

-social and economic change
-Japanese city maps
-urban governance and planning
-historical roles
-waterfront design
-transportation and infrastructure
-disaster planning and post-disaster reconstruction
-urban ecology

The sessions will help establish new approaches to comparative studies of Japanese cities by placing historical and present-day developments into wider debates on emerging Asias and global urbanization.

/Instructions for Submissions/

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Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by October 1st to both the organizers David W. Edgington (David.Edgington@ubc.ca and Carola Hein (chein@brynmar.edu). We will then finalise the panel sessions by October 8^th . You will then have to submit your participation/registration fee and abstracts online through the AAG’s website (www.aag.org) and send us your PIN (personal identification number) before October 17^th which will give us time to register the sessions.