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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Might be a good opportunity to present our OpenCitySmart work. Anyone in US willing to lead this submission and present on Geo4All behalf.<br>
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<b>To:</b> ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Cities and Regions: Managing Growth and Change - Regional Studies Association Conference 2016 Abstract Deadline 28 Feb.<br>
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<p style="text-align:center"><font color="#cc0000" size="4" face="tahoma, new york, times, serif"><b><a href="http://www.regionalstudies.org/conferences/conference/rsa-north-american-conf" target="_blank">Cities and Regions: Managing Growth and Change</a>
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<div style="text-align:center"><b> <a href="http://www.urbaninnovation.gatech.edu" target="_blank">Georgia Institute of Technology</a></b></div>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47)"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif">In the wake of the global financial crisis, cities have searched for new policies and practices capable of addressing major shifts in socio-economic relations
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif"><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47)">Regional policies, particularly in the North American context, responded to economic challenges by adopting new technologies
</span><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47)">and </span><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47)">new institutional and organizational forms to manage growth and change at the city scale. The result is a complex and uneven landscape of public and private actors delivering
financial services, scaling-up supply chains, coordinating firm networks, diffusing process and material innovations, and organizing new forms of civic representation and participation.
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47)"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif">This conference provides a platform for researchers to address the effects of these policy, organizational, and institutional innovations and their impact
on work, identity, governance, production networks, infrastructure investments, technology diffusion, and ultimately place. The conference will focus on the policy implications of emerging forms of governance and policy delivery relative to uneven development
and inequality in a post-crisis era of ongoing market liberalization, financialization, and global competition.
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47)"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif">The inter-related processes of industrialization, urbanization, and regional and local development are complex. These processes pose a major challenge
for regional policy, firstly for our conceptualizations of regional and urban development and, secondly, for specifying appropriate policy-fixes to provide the conditions for sustainable, smart, and equitable economic growth.
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif"><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47)">The 2016 RSA North America Conference, in the 51</span><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47); vertical-align:3pt">st
</span><span style="color:rgb(47,47,47)">Year of the Regional Studies Association, is an opportunity to discuss these issues, to chart future research imperatives, and to address concerns and challenges confronting policymakers and practitioners. The conference
organizers are keen to attract papers and sessions addressing a broad research and policy agenda, including contributions from disciplines that offer relevant insights associated with recasting our cities and regions.
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Karen Chapple</a>, University of California, Berkeley, USA</span></font></p>
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Dieter Kogler</a>, University College Dublin, Ireland<br>
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Robin Leichenko</a>, Rutgers University, USA </font></span></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="tahoma, new york, times, serif">G: Regional Economies: SMEs, Scale-Up and the Future of Production Networks</font></p>
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<font size="4">Academic Organisers: Professor <b><a href="http://www.iac.gatech.edu/people/faculty/clark" target="_blank">Jennifer Clark</a></b>, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA<br>
RSA Organiser<span style="color:rgb(62,62,62)">: </span><span style="color:rgb(62,62,62)">Lesa Reynolds:
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<div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span></span><font style="font-size:12pt" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Dr. <a href="https://gatech.academia.edu/JenniferClark" target="_blank">Jennifer Clark</a></b></font><br>
<font size="2">Associate Professor, <b><a href="http://www.spp.gatech.edu" target="_blank">School of Public Policy</a></b> and<br>
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<div style="font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b><a href="http://www.iac.gatech.edu" target="_blank">Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts</a></b>,<b> <a href="http://www.gatech.edu" target="_blank">Georgia Institute of Technology</a></b><br>
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