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Everday Cities and Ordinary Lives: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary CitiesKey speaker: Michael Bull, University of Sussex.The advent of the 21st century has brought with it a world population that now predominantly resides in urban areas. Popular and academic attention on the "global city"; on the information networks connecting financial centres such as London and New York, has put into the shadow the range of everyday urban experiences in apparently unremarkable agglomerations. In short, mundane experiences and aspects of urbanism have tended to be obscured from analysis, despite the potentially rich insights offered by work on such majority experiences. This is a call for papers for a short conference seeking an antidote to the delimitation of much urban research around the bright lights, finance economies and sharper problems of nodal city centres. We seek contributions from across the range of disciplines dealing with the ordinary, the common place and the everyday in smaller urban centres as well as treatments of these aspects of life in major metropolitan areas such as: commuting, shopping, orchestrating childcare and domestic life, eating and drinking, moving to and from schools, hospitals, sports facilities and kin and friendship networks and rituals that, taken as a whole, constitute what the everyday, or ordinary, city.
| Period | 2012 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | York, United KingdomShow on map |