The Geography of Suburban Space Session: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2008

The Towards Successful Town Centres project hosted a session at this  year’s RGS-IBG conference (27-29th August), in affiliation with the Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG). On behalf of the project team I would like to thank everyone who attended the session and especially those who contributed their excellent and interesting presentations. The presentations can be viewed through the project website.

• Introduction to the Geography of Suburban Space session
• Paper 1: SSTC Project (UCL) – Towards an historical-geographical theory of suburban space
• Paper 2: N. Morton & P.J. Larkham (Birmingham City University)- Increasing density in mature suburbs: character, resistance, and quality?
• Paper 3: P. Watt (Birkbeck, University of London) – Living in an oasis: middle-class disaffiliation in the London suburbs
• Paper 4: F. Paynter (Queen Mary, University of London) – Adapting suburbs: the impacts of culture-led regeneration on English suburban towns
• Paper 5: D. Chen & L. Young (Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, Think Tank) – Retrofitting Suburbia: navigating from generic to specific