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On April 10-11, 2007, an international symposium was held at the historic Jane Addams Hull House at University of Illinois at Chicago to explore the contributions that leading theories of urban spatial development have made to our understanding of 21st-century cities. Participants discussed the collapse of the "old Chicago school" and the rise of the LA school of urban scholarship, and discussed whether recent scholarship on New York and Chicago may point the way to new paradigms to guide urban research. On this website, students of urban development may view the symposium presentations in full; publications from the symposium are forthcoming.
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Opening Session
Michael Dear: The Los Angeles School of Urban Studies
David Halle: Is There a New York School?
Dick Simpson: The New Chicago School and the New Daley Machine
Los Angeles
Amy Bridges: Reform and Political Institutions in Los Angeles
Michael Dear: Critical Responses to the L.A. School of Urbanism
Steve Erie & Scott MacKenzie: The L.A. School and Politics Noir
Dinner Speaker
Janet Abu-Lughod: Grounded Theory: Not Abstract Words but Tools of Analysis
New York
Robert Beauregard: Unnatural Categories and the Flight from Theory
David Halle: New York School, Los Angeles School, and Chicago School
John Hull Mollenkopf : What is New York and What Is Special About New York Studies?
Chicago
Larry Bennett: Mayor Richard M. Daley Among His Peers
Terry Clark: Urban Scenescapes
Evan McKenzie: Growth of Private Governance and the Implications for Urban Theory
Janet Smith: Fear and Loathing in Chicago
Costas Spirou: Interconnected Destinies
Luncheon Speaker
Daphne Spain: In the Spirit of Jane Addams
International Perspectives
Frank Gaffikin, Ratoola Kundu and David Perry: Understanding the Contested City
Francisco Sabatini and Rodrigo Salcedo: Theoretical Roads to Understanding Deep Urban Change
John Hagedorn: De-Schooling Urban Theory
Robin Hambleton: US Urban Scholarship: An International Perspective
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