Event
16th International Conference
of the Utopian Studies Society
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.Description
The End of the City can be understood in at least three ways: as its boundary, as its demise, or as a question about its purpose.An ever greater proportion of the world’s growing population is urban. As its physical and social limits expand, the city can seem endless, intruding into every aspect of global life. At the same time, its ends or functions – social, political, affective, cultural – become more multifaceted and harder to pin down(...) Utopian studies offers a wealth of approaches for thinking and re-thinking the dilemmas and desires of an urban age, for exploring what is next for - or after - the city.(...) The 2015 USS Conference is dedicated to exploring these issues and their relationship to utopian thought, theory and practice.
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Place
Newcastle, UK
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Date
1-4 July 2015