{"544871":{"#nid":"544871","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Hosts International Regional Studies Association Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis week The Georgia Tech Center for Urban Innovation serves as the academic host for the Regional Studies Association\u2019s Second North American Conference.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 2016 RSA North America Conference,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.regionalstudies.org\/conferences\/conference\/rsa-north-american-conf\u0022\u003ECities and Regions: Managing Growth and Change\u003C\/a\u003E, will \u003Ca title=\u0022RSA Speakers\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.regionalstudies.org\/conferences\/plenary-sessions\/atlanta-plenary\u0022\u003Econgregate academics, policy-makers and practitioners from around the world\u003C\/a\u003E with backgrounds in economics, geography, political science, planning and sociology. In the wake of the global financial crisis, cities have searched for new policies and practices capable of addressing major shifts in socio-economic relations at the urban and regional scale. These divergent and differentiated efforts have led to the intensification of underlying problems in some cities and a return to growth in others.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 2016 RSA North America Conference, in the 51st Year of the Regional Studies Association, is an opportunity to \u003Ca title=\u0022RSA Special Sessions\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.regionalstudies.org\/conferences\/special-sessions\/Atlanta-SS\u0022\u003Ediscuss these issues\u003C\/a\u003E, to chart future research imperatives, and to address concerns and challenges confronting policymakers and practitioners.\u0026nbsp; It provides a platform for researchers to address the effects of these policy, organizational, and institutional innovations and their impact on work, identity, governance, production networks, infrastructure investments, technology diffusion, and ultimately place. The conference will focus on the policy implications of emerging forms of governance and policy delivery relative to uneven development and inequality in a post-crisis era of ongoing market liberalization, financialization, and global competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca title=\u0022RSA Conference\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.regionalstudies.org\/conferences\/conference\/rsa-north-american-conf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E for more information regarding the RSA Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollow the RSA conference this week using #RSAUSA2016\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GT Center for Urban Innovation Serves as the Academic Host for the RSA Conference"}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2016-06-14 17:39:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:53","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"544861":{"id":"544861","type":"image","title":"RSA Image","body":null,"created":"1466092800","gmt_created":"2016-06-16 16:00:00","changed":"1475895336","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:36","alt":"RSA Image","file":{"fid":"91125","name":"rsa_image.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rsa_image.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rsa_image.png","mime":"image\/png","size":563410,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rsa_image.png?itok=IbvjyFaB"}}},"media_ids":["544861"],"groups":[{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr.\u0026nbsp;Jennifer Clark\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector,\u0026nbsp;Center for Urban\u0026nbsp;Innovation\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssociate Professor, School of Public Policy\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003EAcademic Organizer, RSA North American Conference\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jennifer.clark@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}