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Dear Readers, With this newsletter Planum. The Journal of Urbanism is pleased to present magazine updates. Planum has recently updated its website and is hosting a growing and updated number of articles and list of contents. The following is a selection of the most interesting articles, latest events, news, book reviews and journal presentations that can be found on …
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“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. …
European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference 20-24 August 2013 Munich, Germany http://www.eseh2013.org/ For the ESEH conference in Munich, August 2013, we are organizing a session on rediscovering and re-surfacing urban waters.
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2013 Los Angeles April 9-13th. Session Title: Moving to Berlin – A Growing Laboratory of Urban Thought and Research Organizers: Sandra Jasper, UCL Urban Laboratory; Department of Geography, University College London (UCL) Sam Merrill, Department of Geography, University College London (UCL); Centre of Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin Julia …
As part of the annual Mediterranean Meeting to be held in Mersin, Turkey (March 20-23, 2013) we are coordinating a workshop on the links between violence, pluralism, urbanism and the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe. The title of the workshop (no. 11) is: “The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations …
As part of the annual Mediterranean Meeting to be held in Mersin, Turkey (March 20-23, 2013) we are coordinating a workshop on the links between violence, pluralism, urbanism and the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe. The title of the workshop (no. 11) is: “The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations …
The University of Antwerp Centre for Urban History (Belgium), is looking for a historian, geographer or GIS-expert for a four-year PHD-scholarship (2012-2016) in the context of a new research project: GIStorical Antwerp: a micro-level data tool for the study of past urban societies, test-case: Antwerp GIStorical Antwerp is a challenging research project funded by the …
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3rd International Conference on Urban Mobility: Its Impacts on Socio-cultural and Health Issues Surabaya, Indonesia December 7-8, 2012 http://fib.unair.ac.id/urbanmobility2012/index.php Faculty of Humanities in cooperation with Faculty of Public Health of Airlangga University will hold its 3rd International Conference. The conference seeks to bring analysis in the field of humanities and health sciences to explore and …
Dear Readers, Planum. The Journal of Urbanism is pleased to present you a selection of Masters and Master of Science courses for the next accademic years, in Europe and in collaboration with extra-European Universities as well. Masters and MSc courses have been selected for their educational programmes and fields of studies, for the relevance of the hosting Universities and for their aims …
Topics: *** “Austerity urbanism”: American cities under extreme economy (Jamie Peck) *** Think & Drink Colloquium ***12.-14.7. Conference City of flows *** 18.07. Interest and planning meeting – Study group Berlin-based scholars who share interests in cities and social theory *** GSZ-Graduate Studies Group *** ———– “Austerity urbanism”: American cities under extreme economy Austerity budgeting …
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