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2014 Urban Affairs Association Conference

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9:15am CDT

TH1.19 Urban Trends in Central & South America and the Caribbean: Poverty, Informality, Housing Policies, Labor Force and Migration in the XXI Century. [SPECIAL TRACK: URBAN ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND... Camino Real Room (Westin 1st Floor)Janina Leon • Flavio A M de Souza • Cecilia Giusti, Texas A&M University • Mercedes Di Virgilio • Cecilia Giusti, Texas A&M University

10:55am CDT

TH2.19 Informality, Infrastructure and Urban (Re)Development in Latin America: Cases from Mexico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic [SPECIAL TRACK: URBAN ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN... Camino Real Room (Westin 1st Floor)Omar Diaz • alejandra reyes • Ariadna Itzel Reyes Sanchez • Patricia Wilson • Juan Guillermo Yunda • Alan Bush • Sara Itzel Bejarano Martinez • Sophie Naue • Enrique Juárez Nuñez • Rafael Castañeda Olvera • Samuel Siegel • Bjorn Sletto • Bjorn Sletto

1:30pm CDT

TH3.18 Learning from Latin America in Texas: How Housing Informality Continues to Trump Formality [SPECIAL TRACK: URBAN ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN] Camino Real Room (Westin 1st Floor)Carlos Olmedo, University of Texas at Austin • Noah Durst • Peter Ward • Heather Way • Lucille Wood • Peter Ward

3:10pm CDT

TH4.18 Governance in a Global Perspective I [SPECIAL TRACK: URBAN ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN] Camino Real Room (Westin 1st Floor)Diego Silva Ardila, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá • Abigail Friendly, Utrecht University • Sonia Uribe • Cesar Velandia • Marta Vilela • Pablo Vega Centeno • Sonia Uribe

9:15am CDT

FR1.18 Urban Identity and Place Making [SPECIAL TRACK: URBAN ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN] Camino Real Room (Westin 1st Floor)Alvaro Arellano-Farias • Helene Belanger • Sujee Jung • Scott Salmon • Scott Salmon

10:55am CDT

FR2.18 Urbanization Patterns [SPECIAL TRACK: URBAN ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN] Camino Real Room (Westin 1st Floor)Ann Carpenter, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta • Edna Ledesma • Jose Julio Lima • Gregory Marinic • María Alejandra Núñez Villalobos • Myriam Quispe-Agnoli • Raul Ventura • Jose Julio Lima

2:05pm CDT

FR3.15 Governance in a Global Perspective II [SPECIAL TRACK: URBAN ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN] Camino Real Room (Westin 1st Floor)Tom Hare • Mary Fran Malone • Luis Diego Quiros Pacheco • Camila Pereira • Eduardo Salinas • Alejandro Diaz-Dominguez • Jonathan Hiskey • Camila Pereira

4:05pm CDT

FR4.18 Neoliberal Urbanism: Reflections on Theory from the Arab World--Part II Camino Real Room (Westin 1st Floor)Koenraad Bogaert • Mona Fawaz • Ahmed Kanna • Christopher Parker • Yannick Suderman • Najib Hourani

9:00am CDT

SA1.12 Economic Development [SPECIAL TRACK: URBAN ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN] Camino Real Room (Westin 1st Floor)Jesus Antonio Trevino Cantu • Janina Leon • Suzanne Moomaw • Ana Paula Preto Rodrigues Neves • Janina Leon

10:30am CDT

SA2.13 Relocation, Removal, and Displacement [SPECIAL TRACK: URBAN ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN] Camino Real Room (Westin 1st Floor)Maureen Donaghy, Rutgers University, Camden • Roberto Cantu_Garza • Lesli Hoey • Maureen Donaghy, Rutgers University, Camden