This session explores the evolving spatial, cultural, and political dimensions of neighbourhoods and urban landscapes through a diverse set of local and global lenses. Presenters critically engage with questions of urban childhood, rural identity, middle-class housing desires, zoning as a tool of exclusion, and the complex roles of neighbourhood associations. These presentations interrogate how planning and land-use narratives shape access, memory, community formation, and power within both urban and rural spaces.

• 3:00 PM
  From “Living Area” to “Small Area”: Changes in How Children View Neighbourhood Space Across Three Generations in Kunming, China
  Ethan Bird, McGill University

• 3:15 PM
  Exploring relational dimensions of rural values and character on Southern Vancouver Island, Canada
  Deanna Woods, Royal Roads University

• 3:30 PM
  Urban Desires and Directives: Aligning Middle-Class Housing Aspirations in Metropolitan Space
  Emory Shaw, INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique)

• 3:45 PM
  Urban renewal and exclusionary zoning: The clearance and regulation of Ottawa’s Little Italy
  Jordan Moffatt, Carleton University

• 4:00 PM
  Neighborhood Associations in a Mid-Sized US City: Topocratic vs Adhocratic
  Amanda Smith, Western Washington University