Urban Futures Futures 2000
Johannesburg 10 - 14 July 2000

The URBAN FUTURES 2000 conference has accepted 220 papers thus far from all parts of the globe. Accepted contributions have come in from Brazil, Denmark, Kenya, Botswana, France, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Germany, U.S.A., Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Swaziland, Japan, Egypt, Israel, Netherlands, Canada, Nigeria, Finland, Norway, Cote D'Iviore, and off- course South Africa.

Urban Futures 2000 is a conference that looks at Johannesburg and other developing cities of the world. Johannesburg is typical of a city whose built environment constitutes of even and uneven development in which diverse peoples and cultures conduct their lives. The social, racial, spatial and administrative patterns of apartheid are being overlaid by the urban dynamics characteristic of global economic development

The University of Witwatersrand (which has been closely linked to the city's development, through scholarship and political and civic activism) is hosting the conference together with the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council (GJMC). As major players in the city's governance, the University and the Metropolitan Council are concerned to secure the city's prosperity and to find solutions to the social, cultural, technological, and political problems arising from life in an African metropolis in particular.

The conference seeks to bring together  academics, politicians, decision-makers, practioners, social activists, artists, etc..

Contributions should address themselves to the following themes:
Urban -  theory and policy
          - communities and social movements
          - cultures and narratives
          - governance and management
          - finance and economics
          - habitats and physical environments
          - services and infrastructure
          - universities

The last deadline for contributions is 15 March 2000:
Please also refer to our website for more information:
<http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/urbanfutures>. Please also note that the 15 March 2000 deadline has not been updated on the website.