Call for Papers: Global Urban Frontiers: Asian Cities in Theory, Practice and Imagination

I just saw this Call for Papers announcement for an upcoming conference at the National University of Singapore (Sept. 8-9, 2010): Global Urban Frontiers: Asian Cities in Theory, Practice and Imagination.

The conference is looking for papers relating to:

• The more-than-regional significance of Asian cities and urbanization
• The dominance of western models and concepts and their diffusion to Asia in planning practice and education
• The emergence of Asian models or centres for emulation
• The ‘travel’ of Asian cities (both intra and extra-regional) in theory, planning and cultural imaginings
• The city and/in area studies
• Theorizing ‘the city’ or ‘urban’ from Asia
• Methodological practices: researching Asia’s urban diversity
• Relational forms of comparative urbanism

This conference is organized by Tim Bunnell. He studies urban networks and “the ‘travel’ of Asian cities in urban theory and planning practice.” Yah! Another person who studies urban theory/form/content in Asian cities - let’s keep an eye on his work.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Participants should submit a 250-word abstract and a short paragraph of personal self description by26 March 2010 using the enclosed proposal form.

Please submit and address all applications to Miss Sharon Ong (arios@nus.edu.sg) of the Asia Research Institute.
Successful applicants will be notified by 9 April 2010.  

Full Papers are due on 31 July 2010.

 I wish I could go but I don’t have any papers ready for submission :(