Call for abstracts for the 2009 UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference, Unequal Places: Planning and Territorial Cohesion to be held in Newcastle upon Tyne from April 1-3, 2009.

“Public versus private planning: themes, trends, and tensions”

The 2008 IPHS conference coincides with commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Burnham and Bennett Plan of Chicago, one of the major landmarks in modern planning history. This was a privately produced plan ultimately adopted as public policy. The interplay between the private interests of business, individuals and non-governmental organisations versus the more public interests of the state evident in the Plan of Chicago has been an enduring theme in the history of planning. The relationship has changed dramatically over time. In the pre-modern era, public planning affected only a fraction of the built environment. The 20th century saw a vast expansion in the practice of public planning in almost all democratic societies. There has latterly been a major reaction against purely public planning and a rehabilitation of the idea of more private planning, often in the form of privatization, expanded use of market mechanisms, and public-private partnerships.  The 2008 IPHS conference will seek to shed light on this creative tension within planning history.

The Nohad Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University will recognize Wim Wiewel as the new President of Portland State University.  Participants in the ACSP/AESOP Planning Congress are invited to a reception to recognize Dr. Wiewel’s past service to the planning profession as a President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and his future contributions as the leader of Portland State University.

GPEIG Business Meeting Agenda Items
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
6:30-7:15 PM
Great America 1 Room, Marriott Hotel
Chicago, Illinois

1) Review of GPEIG activities: (Annette M. Kim) 15 minutes
Begun by Faranak two years ago, GPEIG has been focusing on developing two things: 1) research that advances the discourse on the ethics of working internationally as global planners 2) sharing our knowledge through exchanges and the internet.  Towards these ends, we have worked on the following things the past year:
a) introduce new website
b) HUD Cityscape journal articles
c) Faranak and Neema’s collaborative web teaching resource project proposal
d) Keith’s digital grid news
e) Roundtable with Alven Lam, HUD Director of International research

2) GPEIG co-chair elections:  (Annette M. Kim) 5 minutes
Nominations for the 2009-2011 co-chair position will be open for the next month.  Because we will not be convening again until October 2009, we would like to hold electronic elections on our new website.
(AMK)

3) Financial review and further institutionalization of GPEIG (Petra Doan) 20 minutes

4) Report from GPEAN about future collaboration ideas (Vanessa Watson) 5 minutes

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) will hold their 2008 annual conferences together at the fourth Joint Congress, July 6 -11 in Chicago at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile Hotel. This follows Joint Congresses in Oxford (1991), Toronto (1996), and Leuven (2003).

http://tigger.uic.edu/cuppa/upp/congress/

Building Ladders to the Middle-Class: Planning for Equitable and Sustainable Prosperity

Handouts distributed at the World Planning Schools Congress
Mexico City, July 11-16, 2006