2008 Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation
Dr. Georgeta Vidican, a graduate of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the winner of the 2008 Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning. Her dissertation entitled “Institutional arrangements and land reallocation during transition: A regional analysis of small farms in Romania” challenges the conventional wisdom and the Washington consensus on development policies. She presents some fascinating findings with implications far larger than the study of agriculture in post-socialist transition. Dr.Annette Kim chaired Georgeta’s dissertation committee.
Dr. Sanjeev Vidyarthi, a graduate of Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is recognized with an Honorable Mention for the 2008 Lim award. His dissertation entitled “Inappropriate appropriations of planning ideas: Informalizing the formal and Globalizing the Local\” provides a critical theoretical analysis of how Perry’s American concept of “neighborhood” unit is appropriated into an Indian city (Jaipur) by adapting the concept to local conditions. He presents a nuanced analysis of how politics, power, culture, and space are intertwined in the adoption (or subversion) of an alien planning concept. Drs. Aseem Inam and Gavin Shatkin co-chaired Sanjeev’s dissertation committee.
The Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning is an award established by the ACSP Global Planners Educators Interest Group (GPEIG). The award recognizes superior scholarship in a doctoral dissertation completed by a student enrolled in an ACSP-member school. The committee members for deciding the winners for 2008 were: Diane Davis (Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Benjamin Kohl (Associate Professor, Temple University), and Sukumar Ganapati (Assistant Professor, Florida International University).
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