Cities and International Development

Convenor: Professor Robert Home, Anglia Law School, Anglia Ruskin University

Within the last few years the world has reached a so-called 'tipping point', where its urban population now exceeds rural for the first time in human history. Up to a billion people live in urban slums and under risk of eviction, and how we manage our limited urban land resource really matters. Town planning can potentially help to ease Malthusian pressures of population upon land and environment.

This track invites papers offering an international perspective on town and city planning, which could include the following: transnational transfer of planning ideas and instruments (relating to UN-Habitat's Global Land Tools Network); planning approaches to environmental challenges; planning for future housing needs; and international competition between regions and cities. Contributions from the perspective of 'the South' particularly welcome.

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