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Home Colloquia Conference Related Activities Contact Us	Colloquium 3: Urban-Rural: Flows and Boundaries 09 - 10 January 2007 Read summary and download colloquium report Session 1 - Urban and rural interactions Focused on: mobility and migration; maps and boundaries; changing definitions over time for different groups; features uniting and distinguishing urban and rural; 'perceived' and 'actual' urban and rural places; interactions between urban and rural places; regional capitals and regional profiles; regional policy; urban and regional identities; the Northern Way. Position Papers: "A situated exploration of contemporary rural-urban interactions in Aotearoa/New Zealand." Richard LeHeron Provocative Points:Michael Haldrup Discussant: Hans-Thor Andersen Chair: Gordon Clark Session 2 - Townscapes and landscapes Focused on: changes within urban townscapes and within rural landscapes; parallels between urban and rural aesthetics; the rural in the city and the city in the countryside; policies for townscapes and landscapes; the natural and the artificial; the public appeal of the visual; heritage and the legacy of the past; fashion and modernity; the native and the foreign; utility and spectacle; commodification of the visual; scapes, semiotics and icons; scapes and identities. Position Paper: "On townscapes, heritages and identities." Gregory J. Ashworth Position Paper: "Townscapes and Landscapes." Mike Savage Provocative Points: David Shaw, Anssi Paasi Discussant: Sarah Whatmore Chair: Ian Whyte Session 3 - Urban and rural futures Focused on: interactions between the urban and rural economies; demands placed on each area by the other's population; tourism; shifts and declines in subsides; centrality and remoteness; mobilities; future evolution; competitiveness in the past, present and future; spatial planning and policies; policy futures and what people want; scenario development and its utility. Position Paper: "Rural Futures: a Socio-Geographical Approach to Scenarios Analysis." Philip Lowe and Neil Ward Position Paper: "City-regions and the spatialities of urban-rural relations." Joe Painter Provocative Points: Sue Kidd Discussant: Ole Jensen Chair: John Urry. Lancaster Co-ordinators Professor Ian Whyte E-mail: i.whyte@lancaster.ac.uk Homepage Professor John Urry E-mail: j.urry@lancaster.ac.uk Homepage Dr Gordon Clark E-mail: g.clark@lancaster.ac.uk Homepage Speakers and participants «Back	Colloquia Introduction What is a Region? Construction and Legitimation of Regional Identity Urban-Rural: Flows and Boundaries Regions as reservoirs of Knowledge Constructing Regional identities in the Post-Communist Space: Eurasia or Europe?
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