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CALL FOR NEW EDITOR: JOURNAL OF PLANNING HISTORY The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) is soliciting applications from qualified individuals or two-person teams to succeed Dean Christopher Silver as editor of the refereed Journal of Planning History. Prof. Silver, who has served admirably as the journal’s founding editor for more than …
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Call for Briefings _Articulo – Journal of Urban Research_ (http://articulo.revues.org/) seeks submissions for the inaugural volume of its Briefings section. _Articulo_ is a peer-reviewed online journal devoted to the exploration of urban issues through the lens of a wide range of social science approaches. The Journal embraces a multidisciplinary perspective on the transformation of social, …
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_The Journal of Urbanism_ – Call for Papers Special Issue: DIY Urbanism Guest Editor, Donovan Finn, PhD, Stony Brook University A new attitude toward public space is emerging in cities across the globe. Though certainly not a new phenomenon, citizens are increasingly using urban space to advance political and social justice goals through protest, occupation, …
“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.the picture of free untrammeled womanhood.” Susan B. …
DO-IT-YOURSELF (DIY) URBANISM Special issue of _The Journal of Urbanism_ Guest Editor, Donovan Finn, PhD, Stony Brook University Deadline: 1 November, 2012 A new attitude toward public space is emerging in cities across the globe. Though certainly not a new phenomenon, citizens are increasingly using urban space to advance political and social justice goals through …
Special Issue: Architecture, Evidence and Evidentiality _Architectural Theory Review _(to be published as Volume 18, Number 1, March 2013) Edited by William Taylor, Andrew Leach & Lee Stickells Deadline: 17 September, 2012 Conceptually, evidence differs from material, matter and content for its relationship with a problem. Evidence offers proof in support of a position, a …
http://places.designobserver.com/feature/call-for-articles-public-and-private/31518/ Places Journal seeks articles that explore the complex dynamic of public and private in contemporary politics and culture, and how this dynamic influences the design and production of buildings, landscapes and cities. This is a large topic, indeed one of the central issues of our time. In the past generation we witnessed a fundamental …
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As book review editor-in-chief for the journal _Planning Perspectives_ I am looking for reviewers for the following books: Friedman, Avi, _Town and Terraced Housing_ (Routledge, 2012) Hardy, Dennis, _From New Towns to Green Politics Campaigning for Town and Country Planning, 1946-1990_ (re-edition, Taylor and Francis, 2011) Abbott, John, _Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in …
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Special Issue of Iranian Studies Journal Revisiting the Historiography: New Approaches to the Study of Persian Architecture www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00210862.asp Guest-editor: Dr. Mohammad Gharipour Deadline: March 30, 2012 Initiated in the nineteenth century, the study of Persian architecture was advanced by such twentieth-century archeologists and Iranologists as Arthur Upham Pope, Ernst Herzfeld, Andre Godard, Roman Ghirshman, and …
THE FUTURE OF SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED HOUSING Journal of Urbanism http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rjou Deadline: 1 June, 2012 What is the role of single-family detached housing in sustainable cities? Many are now predicting that single-family housing, especially at the periphery of major cities, is destined to become the future slum. But should we give up on single-family housing as …