‘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

Dear Colleagues,

The Global Planning Educators Interest Group (http://www.gpeig.org/) Nominations Committee is making a call for nominations for GPEIG co-chair. The co-chair is a two-year position and would start at the ACSP meeting this fall in Washington, DC.  As we agreed in our meeting in Chicago last summer, we would do our election process via the Internet prior to our meeting this fall.

Please send us the name and contact information for people who you think would be candidates for the GPEIG co-chair. Self-nominations are also encouraged. We would also like a brief paragraph about why you think the person or you would be a good candidate for co-chair and ideas for moving the group forward.

Please send your nominations by May 10, 2009 to ruth.yabes@asu.edu AND esweet1@illinois.edu.

Best,
Betsy Sweet, Ruth Yabes, Sid Sen
Elizabeth L. Sweet
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
111 Temple Buell Hall
611 Taft Drive
Champaign, IL 61821
217 333-9069
esweet1@illinois.edu

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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

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).

Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning

Deadline: 24 August 2009

In recognition of the commitment of our late colleague, Gill-Chin Lim, to the study of humanistic aspects of globalization, the ACSP Global Planners Educators Interest Group (GPEIG) has established an award in his name.  The Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning recognizes superior scholarship in a doctoral dissertation completed by a student enrolled in an ACSP-member school.

The Dissertation Committee chairperson jointly with the department chair or director of graduate studies will make the nominations. It is expected that submissions will be selected through a participatory faculty and student process. The nominees must have received their degree in the two years preceding the deadline.

The award committee will evaluate the submissions based on: a) innovative scholarship and perspective that advance the understanding of the diverse processes of international planning in the global context, with a special focus on low-income countries of the �Global South;� b) relation to global cooperation, global social responsibility, global ethics, and respect for global diversity pursued by GPEIG; c) creativity in exploring/proposing international planning alternatives; and d) organization, structure, style, clarity, and originality.

The application must include four copies of:

1) Application form. Click here: lim_announcement.doc
2) Table of contents, abstract, and the introductory and concluding chapters, as well as the full dissertation on disc.
3) Two letters of recommendation, one of which must be from the chair of the nominee�s dissertation committee indicating why the nominated dissertation is deserving of the award.
4) Official university document indicating the date of award of the degree.

Please send the application package to the Chair of the 2009 Gill-Chin Lim Award Committee, at this address:

Gill-Chin Lim Dissertation Award Committee
c/o Sukumar Ganapati, Assistant Professor
Public Administration Department, PCA 363B
College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University
11200 S.W. 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199

Other contact info:
Tel (305) 348-6275
Email: ganapati@fiu.edu

To submit your abstract go to http://www.liv.ac.uk/aesop2009/index.htm. The submission of abstracts is a two stage process. First you must register with the site and then you can submit your abstract. The conference is organised around 18 separate themes.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 31st January 2009

If you have any questions about the process please contact AESOP2009@liverpool.ac.uk and we will deal with your queries.

Please feel free to circulate this email to any of your contacts who you think may be interested in this exciting event.

We look forward to welcoming you to Liverpool in 2009 to help us to celebrate 100 years of planning education and practice in the UK.

Best wishes

Dave

Professor David Shaw
Chair of the Local Organising Committee
Department of Civic Design
74 Bedford Street South
University of Liverpool
Liverpool
L69 7ZQ

Thanks � any queries, please contact Dave or myself.

Sandra Robinson
Administrator, AESOP 09

The International Association for China Planning (IACP) will have its 3rd annual conference in Nanjing, China. The local host is Nanjing University, a top-ranked university in China and a recognized leader in urban planning education. A call-for-abstract is attached to this email. Funds are available to help current IACP members defray portions of their travel costs, lodging and registration, if the abstract is accepted.

Please keep the following timeline in your calendar.

Abstract Submission: Feb 1st, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: March 1st, 2009
Conference date: June 21st-23rd, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
call_for_paper_IACP2009_(2).pdf
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Info provided by: (via the globeplan listserv)
Jiawen Yang
Assistant Professor
City and Regional Planning
Georgia Institute of Technology

2009 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, USA
22nd-27th March 2009
Announcement below copied on Dec. 16, 2008 from this site:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/aag2009b.html

Over the past two decades, practices of internationalization in higher education have become a priority for many individuals, institutions and governments, and they also have considerably diversified (Knight 2003; Teichler 2004). In the early 1990s, the historically significant mobility of students and academic staff gained new momentum as part of recent globalization processes, while conversations about the internationalization of higher education focussed on two main areas, namely academic mobility of students and staff and curriculum development (OECD 1996). Since that time, the establishment of international university networks, transnational academic programs and branch campuses abroad has contributed to close ties between academic institutions in different parts of the world and promoted the emergence of new �global educational hubs’ in places such as India, China and Singapore (Olds 2007; Hoyler and J�ns 2008). Building on a growing interest in the transnational spaces of higher education and the formation of the global knowledge economy (Waters 2006; Hanson Thiem 2008; Olds and Robertson 2008), this session aims to critically interrogate strategies and practices of academic networking across national boundaries, whether these elucidate historical or recent developments.

Papers might focus on the international dimension of:
* Academic mobility of students and staff;
* Research collaborations;
* Curriculum development, joint academic programs, twinning programs and commercial export/import of education programs;
* Branch campuses;
* Development projects;
* University associations and networks.

If you are interested in participating in this session, please send title and abstract (of no more than 250 words) to Heike J�ns (H.Jons@lboro.ac.uk) by 9th October 2008 at the latest. The AAG abstract specifications can be found at http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/papers.htm#abstracts.