Thursday 29 March 2012

11.00-14.00 Registration

13.00-14.00 Lunch (For those who selected this option on booking – not included in one-day package)

14.00-15.30 Session 1: Sustainable Cities: Concepts, Themes and Approaches (Chair: tbc)

Concepts and strategies of the sustainable city in the history of European urban design theory: The pledge of a liveable city
Katia Frey and Eliana Perotti

Scandinavian influences upon British community architecture during the 1970s: “barefoot architects” and the triumph of the urban vernacular
Natasha Vall

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.30 Session 2: parallel sessions

2.1: Destructive or Productive? Urban Disasters and the Concept of the Healthy City Throughout History
(Chair: Markian Prokopovych)

Natural disasters and urban resilience: the European experience from London’s Great Fire 1666 to the Hamburg storm flood 1962
Dieter Schott

Industrial risks in the city: the way of acculturation, Paris, 19th c.
Thomas Le Roux

From divine punishment to signs of underdevelopment: fires in the history of Ottoman Istanbul
Eda Guclu

2.2: Governmental Responses to Urban and Environmental Decline
(Chair: tbc)

Housing, health and environment: the lost alternatives to council housing
James J. Smyth and Douglas Robertson

Whose river? London and the governance of the Thames, 1960-1992
Vanessa Taylor and Sarah Palmer

Creating the liveable city in 1970s Britain: state policies and inner city community building
Peter Shapely

17.45-19.30 Session 3: parallel new researchers’ workshops

3.1 Institutions and the Regulation of the Liveable City
(Chair: tbc)

The creation of a red-light district: urbanisation, social control and venereal diseases in Nantes, 1750-1850
Marion Pluskota

Policing urban lives: The police ‘service role”, emergencies and the ‘liveable’ city in Lisbon c.1860-1910
Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves

Siting insanity: the geography of madness in 19th century Paris
Sun-Young Park

3.2 Planning the Sustainable City: Ideas, Influences and Histories
(Chair: tbc)

Perfecting an imperfect city: utopias and renaissance in Pittsburgh
Mariel Isaacson

A ‘borrowing’ culture? The British and American influence on the development of urban planning in Canada
Catherine Ulmer

Redbrick renaissance: the rehabilitation of Victorian architecture and the rise of Urban History in Britain
Gary Davies

Local politics in Leeds and the slum clearance ‘crisis’, 1971-73
Ben Philliskirk

3.3 Making Cities Liveable
(Chair: tbc)

The nineteenth-century urban back garden as a liveable space
Zoë Crisp

Cholera, hospitals and theory of disease: Vienna 1830-1850
Ernst Visser

Struggle against the “primordial dirt”: the emergence of sanitary control in Moscow
Anna Mazanik

‘They call it “pay dirt”, for Youngstown clean would be Youngstown out of work’: Workers, reformers and the battle to render the steel metropolises liveable, 1880-1920
Oliver Betts

Friday 30 March 2012

09.00-10.30 Session 4: parallel sessions

4.1 Sensing the City: Cultural Constructions of the Liveable City
(Chair: tbc)

Sanctifying the street: G. F. Watts’s ‘Time, Death and Judgement’ in London, 1880-present
Lucinda Matthews-Jones

The role of sound and music in the liveable city: Greater Manchester and the Ruhr, 1850-1890
Maarten Walraven

Concepts of hygiene in the conception and construction of post-war housing in Oslo
Laura Falender

4.2 Healthy Cities: Nature, Disease and Responses to Environmental Crisis
(Chair: tbc)

Public health and urban governance: comparing reactions to typhus outbreaks in mid-nineteenth century Montreal and Liverpool
Dan Horner

The end of water scarcity in Provence: technological breakthroughs and emergence of liveable towns in the south east of France, 1849-1969
Nicolas Maughan

Making space for liveability: perceptions and conceptions of urban green space in Antwerp, 1860-2010
Bart Tritsmans

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.45 Session 5: Healthcare, Technology and the City (Chair: Shane Ewen)

De-urbanizing the urban? Public health, technology and the reworking of ‘nature’, c.1830-c.1900
Tom Crook

Building the healthy city in inter-war Britain
Barry M. Doyle

12.45 Closing remarks

13.00-14.00 Lunch (included in one-day conference package)

14.00 Conference ends