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Sub-theme 46:

Conceptualizing, Organizing, and Managing Cities

 

Convenors:

Kees Boersma
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
fk.boersma@fsw.vu.nl

Stewart R. Clegg
University of Technology Sydney (Australia)
stewart.clegg@uts.edu.au

Barbara Czarniawska
Göteborg University (Sweden)
barbara.czarniawska@gri.gu.se

Martin Kornberger
University of Technology, Sydney (Australia)
martin.kornberger@uts.edu.au


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Theorizing Cities

Fabrizio Panozzo
Urbanistics

Anette Hallin and Peter Dobers
The commodification of the city

Lavinia Bifulco, Massimo Bricocoli and Raffaele Monteleone
Organising urban space, de-institutionalising the city

Nils Wåhlin
Cities as meta-organizing spaces
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Researching Cities

Damian P. O’Doherty
Walking the city: Exploring the limits of cartographic reason in organization

Elen Riot
'Issy-les-Moulineaux': Digital emergent city

Giovanna Sonda, Francesco Gabbi and Claudio Coletta
Performing urban spaces. A map of the overlapping conceptualisations and organizations of urban life
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Tales of 3 Cities: Vienna, Krakow, Berlin

Gerhard Hammerschmidt, Royston Greenwood and Renate Meyer
Vienna forever? Sources, mechanisms and products of identity and representation work in a city context

Martyna Masliwa
Reflections on the transformation of the city and the society: Narratives from Krakow

Christina Volkmann
The city as an excuse? Reflections on an organisation in Berlin
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Creative Cities

Arnaud Guillemin and Patricia Apangu
Places of contraction, spaces of extension: The interplay between the city and creative industries as spaces of connection

Lenna Lee, Robert Marijnissen and Sirp de Boer
Managing a creative city: City branding mechanism and creative economy system

Michael Muetzelfeldt
Local distinctiveness, organizations and networks in creative knowledge industries
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Revitalizing and Changing Cities

Paola Dubini and Elena di Biase
Heritage-led positioning and growth for Italian cities and towns

H.S. Gill and Sumati Varma
Strategies for development of inclusive cities

Lucio Bittencourt
The dark site of Santos inner city revitalization public policy: Power, politics and culture
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
Place Making and Branding Cities

Angelique Lombarts
The city marketing organisation as an umbrella organisation?!

Carsten Claus
Canned city – City branding, government, power, and way of life

Kees Boersma, Peter Groenewegen and Pieter Wagenaar
Red, white and blue: Organizational fragmentation of the Emergency Response Rooms in the City of Amsterdam
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Strategies, Tactics and Politics

Per Olof Berg
Conceptualizing inter-city competition

Lionel Gareau
The impacts of the strategy and projects of a retail store group in the development of franchised cities in France: An approach through enactment of vision

Helga Eberherr and Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger
Dealing with complexity: Diversity and intersectionality in cities

Christoph Michels, Chris Steyaert and Timon Beyes
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