Click here to download 3-page flyer: Journey_of_the_Global_ARC_July-Sept-2010.pdf
July– September, 2010 bicycle Journey focused on Sustainability Solutions from Vancouver, Canada to San Felipe, Mexico. Participation Welcome

Journeys of the Global ARC are designed as field research mechanisms, human interest story generators, and networking catalysts for alternative development. The specific aims include: (1) identify and learn from a range of promising solutions to serious problems of unsustainable development, (2) share exciting success stories from the field, in real time, by harnessing the power of multimedia and social networking technologies, and (3) establish new connections and working relationships for The Global ARC to foster progressive action research and globally-minded planning pedagogy around the world. Journey_of_the_Global_ARC_July-Sept-2010.pdf

Isabelle Anguelovski – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kenneth Cheruiyot - University of Cincinnati
Xin Li - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles Oduro - Florida State University

The 2009 Award Committee members were: Emel Ganpati (Assistant Professor, Florida International University), Deden Rukmana (Assistant Professor, Savannah State University), and Petra Doan (Associate Professor, Florida State University; chair of the committee).

The Award Committee chose Dr. Anupama Mann, a graduate of the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, as the winner of the 2009 Gill-Chin Lim Award. Her dissertation entitled “A Megaproject Matrix: Ideology, Discourse and Regulation in the Delhi Metro Rail” offers a detailed case study analysis of some of the ideological and hidden values in promoting mega projects in a developing country context. Based on newspaper and archival accounts, she provides an imaginative reflection on the role of mega-projects. She questions the received wisdom, with a good critical discussion of the literature on political economy, development theory, and institutionalism.

Dr. Mann will be presenting her research in a special award recipients session at the ACSP annual conference.  You can also meet Dr. Mann at the GPEIG luncheon.

The Award Committee was also impressed with the dissertation by Dr. Anuradha Mukherji, a graduate of the Architecture Department, University of California at Berkeley. Entitled “Negotiating Housing Recovery: Why Some Communities Recovered While Others Struggled to Rebuild in Post-Earthquake Urban Kutch, India,” Anuradha’s dissertation is a thoughtful examination of post-disaster planning and its actual results, using innovative broader criteria (e.g. the capabilities approach) for assessment, rather than simply the level of physical reconstruction. Building on a comparative case study, she offers a nuanced and subtle appreciation of the importance of housing class distinctions (owners, tenants, squatters) in the workings and overall successes of a disaster-recovery housing program. Although Anuradha is ineligible for the award since she was not a “student enrolled in an ACSP-member school,” the committee acknowledges the excellence of her dissertation.

We are grateful for Dr. Mukhia’s service!

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24th AESOP Annual Conference • 7-10 July 2010

‘Comparative Urban Studies’ São Paulo (Brazil), 17-22 August 2009

Dear Colleagues,

It’s a pleasure to inform you that the program of the School on “Comparative Urban Studies” jointly organized and funded by IJURR, RC21, CEM and FURS is now online.

The school will take place in Sao Paulo (BR) from the 17th to the 22nd of August 2009 in connection with the subsequent RC21 Conference on “Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging” (23 - 25 August 2009; for info on conference http://www.shakti.uniurb.it/rc21/.

Topics to be studied in the School include the similarities and differences between cities in the global North and South; Sao Paulo itself (to include guided tours of the city); segregation, inequality and poverty; belonging and exclusion in the city.

About fifteen relatively generous scholarships are available for participants from countries classified in category “B” and “C” by ISA.

The link is: http://www.shakti.uniurb.it/winter2009 here you’ll find all relevant information.

We look forward to welcome your participation/application

Yuri Kazepov, Jeremy Seekings, Eduardo Marques

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Yuri Kazepov
Presidente CdL GEPSS
Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”
Via A. Saffi, 15, I-61029 Urbino (PU)

Tel. (39) 0722-305739 (diretto)
Tel. (39) 0722-305732 (segreteria)
Fax (39) 0722-305731

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Subject: CPN China Week 2009
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:58:09 -0700
From: Michael Hibbard

Dear all,

I want to make you aware of the China Planning Network’s China Week 2009, to be held June 15-19, Beijing.  CPN China Week 2009--Urbanization Summit includes six conferences and roundtables covering urban ranking and evaluation, urban transportation, urban housing, urban regeneration, comparative planning education (co-sponsored with ACSP), urban environment, urban risk reduction, urban economics and urban policy.

Click here for a message from Ming Guo, Zhan Guo, Lawrence Vale, Jinhua Zhao containing a fuller explanation and opportunities to get involved.
CPN-China-Week-2009.pdf

Mike Hibbard, President
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

For More Information please logon to: http://www.apsa2009.org
For any inquires mail us to : info@apsa2009.org
APSA 2009 Organizing Committee
Faculty of Planning & Public Policy
CEPT University
Ahmedabad – Gujarat – India