Back to 2006 Montreal Meetings

* CUSS Sessions will meet Sunday, August 13th and Monday, August 14th

*Regional Dynamics: City and Suburb         
       Sunday, August 13 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm  
       Session Organizer: Bonnie J. Lindstrom (Northwestern University)

Airports as Urban Anchors: The New Central Cities?
       Stephen Appold (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
       John D. Kasarda (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Racial Geography and Racial Movement in Metropolitan Chicago: Rethinking Models, Methods, and Mobility
       Black Hawk Hancock (DePaul University)
       Kiljoong Kenneth Kim (DePaul University)
Regionalism and the Politics of Scale in Cleveland
       Michael McQuarrie (New York University)
The Death and Life of Greater Lisbon: Gentrification, Displacement and Other Urbana Phenomena
       Romana Xerez (Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas)
The Geography of Young Adulthood: Persistence and Change in the Residential Contexts of Young Adults
       Patrick T. Sharkey (Harvard University)

*Communities and Behavior         
       Sunday, August 13 – 4:30pm – 6:10pm
       Session Organizer and Presider: Kyle Crowder (Western Washington University)

Violence as a Neighborhood Effects Mechanism
       David J. Harding (University of Michigan)
Perceptions of Neighborhood Safety: Social Disorganization and Racial Differences in the Impact of Neighborhood Characteristics
       Frances M. Barlas (Temple University)
       Danielle Farrie (Temple University)
Broken Windows and Self-Esteem: Subjective Understandings of Neighborhood Poverty and Disorder
       Timothy James Haney (Tulane University)
Discussant: Steven F. Messner (State University of New York)

 *Cities in the Political Economy of Global Capitalism        
       Monday, August 14 – 8:30am – 10:10 am
       (co-sponsored by the Section on Political Economy of the World System)
       Session Organizer and Presider: Michael Timberlake (University of Utah)

World City Networks and Global State Formation
       Alexis Antonio Alvarez (Univ of California-Riverside)
       Hiroko Inoue (University of California, Riverside)
       Richard Evan Niemeyer (University of California, Riverside)
Who Killed New Orleans? An Inquiry from the War Against the Cities to Hurricane Katrina
       Thomas Ehrlich Reifer (University of San Diego)
Globalization and the Politics of Real Estate Development in Mexico City
       Diane E. Davis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Leading Industries and Leading Regions: Industrial Restructuring and Regional Inequality in Hungary Since 1990
       David L. Brown (Cornell University)
       Bela Greskovits (Central European University)
       Laszlo J. Kulcsar (Kansas State University)
Discussant: Robert J.S. Ross (Clark University)

*People Versus Place: The Moving to Opportunity Experiment and Ghetto Poverty After Katrina
       Monday, August 14 – 2:30pm – 4:10pm
       Session Organizer and Presider: Xavier de Souza Briggs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MTO, Gautreaux, and Beyond: Lessons from Baltimore and Chicago
       Stefanie DeLuca (Johns Hopkins University)
The MTO Experiment: Origins, Findings to Date, and Puzzles
       John Goering (City University of New York)
Risky Places and Sexual Predation: MTO Girls in Boston, Los Angeles, and New York Neighborhoods
       Susan Popkin (The Urban Institute)
Revisiting Place Effects on Employment: New Mixed-Method Evidence on MTO
       Margery Austin Turner (The Urban Institute)
Discussant: Mario Luis Small (Princeton University)