Understanding Public-Private Partnerships: Governance, Urban Development, and Spatial Justice International Workshop Friday, November 13, 2015 9:00 - 12:30 CIRRUS | 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor http://cirhus.as.nyu.edu/page/home This workshop explores and analyzes public-private partnerships in relation to spatial equity. As Cities have adopted the "entrepreneurial" turn (Harvey, 1989), many urban interventions initiated or encouraged by public authorities rely on the financial capacity as well as the know-how of both for-profit and not-for-profit private interests to (re)develop land. As Faranak Miratab puts it, they are presented as creating win-win situation (2004). In this context, public authorities have introduced a range of urban policies and legal tools to facilitate these partnerships. If in the United States these arrangements are rooted in long-standing urban practices, they are more recent in Europe. Through a comparative analysis of different case studies drawn from North America, New Zealand and Europe this workshop aims at dissecting the variegated ways in which public-private partnerships are constituted in different political, institutional and regulatory contexts and to examine how and to what end they restructure the public realm. Presentations will examine public-private partnerships that participate in the development of ostensibly public space, the creation of urban amenities as well as the formulation of urban design aesthetics and production of architectural quality. Speakers Phil Birge-Liberman, University of Connecticut "The Conservancy Park: Creating Environmental Amenities as an Urban Growth Strategy" Joel Cayford, University of Auckland "Planning for an Urban Commons in Waterfront Regeneration: Cases from Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand. Providing for power with Flyvbjerg's phronetic planning research and value-rational assessment methodology" Yvonne Franz, Austrian Academy of Sciences "Between acceleration of growth and austerity: Adaptation strategies in residential PPPs in Vienna" Sandra Guinand, CPCP, CUNY & Institute for health and social policy, Johns Hopkins Susana Schaller, City College of New York (CUNY) "Pop-ups - A new trigger to push up land value?" Perrine Michon, Lab'urba Paris-Est University "Public-private partnerships and urban governance : who holds the keys?" Volkmar Pamer, urban planner, City of Vienna "PPP - A dialogue for quality" Elizabeth Shermer, Loyola University Chicago "Partnership, Overlap, or Takeover? Historical Perspectives on Urban Public-Private Initiatives" Christian Stein, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main "Privacy in the making. The many-faced exclusivity of property-led downtown revitalization" Discussant Elliott Sclar, Professor of Urban Planning, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Professor of International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University. Sponsored by Metropolitics.org/Métropolitiques.eu - CPCP Graduate Center CUNY, CIRHUS CNRS-NYU. This event is free and open to the public.