ASSOCIATION, NETWORK: European Urban Research Association http://www.eura.org/

http://www.eura.org/

At a time when global forces are strengthening and localism struggles to reassert itself, there is a need to re-examine the place which cities take in the social and economic order and this is what the European Urban Research Association (EURA) aims to achieve. This web site provides information about the origins of EURA, its aims and objectives and its charter. It also gives information about past and present EURA events, including conferences and workshops. Look also at our ’About EURA‘ section to see that the future is largely urban.
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CfP, CONF: EURA Conference 2012 “Urban Europe – Challenges to Meet the Urban Future”, Vienna, Austria. 20.-22.09.12. Deadline: 17.03.12

http://www.eura2012.org/

“Urban Europe – Challenges to Meet the Urban Future” – is the topic of the next conference of the European Urban Research Association organized by the Department of Spatial Development, Infrastructure and Environmental Planning, Vienna University of Technology.

The conference will be held at Vienna University of Technology from 20th to 22nd of September 2012. We are looking forward to exciting and fruitful days with colleques from all over the world!

Take a look at the conference flyer!

The Calls for Papers are open until 17th of March 2012!

Early Bird Registration is open until 1st of May 2012!

EVENT: 4. Budapest Architecture Film Days, Kino cinema, Budapest, Hungary. 29.03.-01.04.2012.

http://kek.org.hu/filmnapok/en/

On 29th March – 1st April 2012, the KÉK – Contemporary Architecture Centre organizes the Budapest Architecture Film Days for the fourth time, in Kino cinema. The mission of the Architecture Film Days, inspired by the Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival, and initiated by KÉK in 2007, is to generate a dialogue between architectural practice that finds inspiration in cinema, and cinema borrowing its subjects from architecture and the city.

The 2012 edition, a selection of award winning films produced in recent years, is organized around various sections: Movement and Architecture traces the relationship between architecture and choreography, in their Living Architectures series, Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine explore the post-occupancy condition of iconic buildings and we show a selection of films that investigate the connection between Architecture and Politics. In the section Modernism, we look at the legacy of mid-century modernist architecture, and in our Portraits series we screen a filmic biography of Norman Foster. In addition, the festival will present the winners of the public short film competition, Short Shots Budapest, aiming to grasp the urban transformation of Budapest. The screenings will be accompanied by debates, discussions with directors and producers, urban walks and a photo exhibition.

Organizers: Levente Polyák, Daniella Huszár, Júlia Oravecz, Noémi Soltész
Design: István Csekk

Dialogue 09 – Neues Museum | Rapture | A plea for modernism | The Pruitt-Igoe Myth | The Gruen Effect | Reactions | My Playground | Desert Utopia: Midcentury Architecture in Palm Springs | Living Architectures | Mission Statements | Antwerp Central | Oil Rocks – City above the sea | Hella Jongerius: Contemporary Archetypes | How much does your buiding weigh, Mr. Foster? | Kommunalka | Requiem for Detroit? | Bauhaus: Model and Myth | Eames: The Architect and the Painter | Short Shots Budapest shortfilm competition

CfP,CONF: The Rural Urban Relationship – 7th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) Marrakech, Morocco. 9.-14.06.2013

THE RURAL URBAN RELATIONSHIP – 7th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC)
Marrakech, Morocco
9-14 June, 2013

http://www.environmental-education.org/en.html

Previous WEEC congresses have taken place in Portugal, Brazil, Italy,
South. This is the first time the conference will take place in a country
of Arab and Muslim culture. Morocco, among other things, is in a state of
flux. A new constitution has been in force since the end of 2011. A country
with a long history and great artistic and natural assets, Morocco has in
Marrakech a pearl of international fame.

Another interesting aspect is the theme chosen by the Local Organizing
Committee: the rural-urban relationship, a particularly sensitive issue in Morocco
where, like many other countries, an exodus from the countryside and a
strong process of urban migration is occurring. In addition, climate change
is bound to exacerbate the problem of water shortage, strongly felt in
Morocco as in many other countries.

Please visit the conference website for more information on the proposed
program, registration and conference venue.

Charlotte Agustin
(agustin@mail.h-net.msu.edu)

CfP, CONF: COMMUNITY SPACES: CONCEPTION – APPROPRIATION – IDENTITY Network 45plus: Post-War Architecture in Europe. Darmstadt, Germany, 7.-8.09.12. Deadline: 22.04.12

COMMUNITY SPACES: CONCEPTION – APPROPRIATION – IDENTITY
Network 45plus: Post-War Architecture in Europe
Darmstadt, Germany, September 7-8, 2012.

Deadline: 22 April, 2012

Large housing estates of the post-war era have shaped the face of many
cities throughout Europe. In the original plans of the 1950s-1980s they
were to amend the urban structure and in many cases they were expected to
enable a superior form of communality and urbanity. The estates were built
to ease the housing shortage, but were also thought to quite literally
become the home for a “new society”, be it under socialist regimes or the
democratic welfare state. The reformation of society was linked to plans
for a constructed environment and was expected to be supported by the
environment of the estates and, most crucially, their community spaces.
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CONFERENCE: The Middle East’s New Urban Landscape: Inclusive Planning or Democratic Deficit, Amman, Jordan. 12.-13.03.12

Columbia University Middle East Research Center
5 Moh’d Al Sa’d Al-Batayneh St. – King Hussein Park
Amman, Jordan

12-13 March, 2012

An interdisciplinary panel of invited scholars will present their findings
on public participation in Middle East urban planning. We welcome you to
attend and participate in the discussions.

Through the book workshop, contributors will be encouraged to address most
of the three themes of the workshop: to build on and contribute to
theoretical concepts in urban planning and political science on the issues
of democratic and inclusive urban planning in the Middle East; to propose
new methodological approaches to the study of Middle East cities
drawn from urban planning, urban geography, political science and Middle
Eastern studies; and to provide innovative empirical studies of Middle
Eastern cities, with a preference given to Amman, Cairo, and Beirut.

Luna Khirfan
Assistant Professor
School of Planning, EV-3 office #3257
Faculty of Environment
The University of Waterloo

CONFERENCE Looking Behind the Facade of the Ghetto. Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitant. Mainz, Germany. 30.03.-01.04.12

Looking Behind the Facade of the Ghetto.
Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitant

Conference of the Research Unit “Historical Cultural Sciences”
(Forschungsschwerpunkt Historische Kulturwissenschaften, HKW)
of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Philosophicum, Old Faculty Hall, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18
55128 Mainz, Germany
March 30 to April 1, 2012

What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? When looking at research reports available so far the answer to this question is relatively sobering. The world of the people at the bottom of society appears to be widely homogeneous. According to the common belief it consists of drugs, violence and a very strong religiousness. Queries beyond this are rarely found so that Markus Schroer correctly speaks of “a reproduction of always the same images” in respect of ghettos, favelas and banlieues.
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SHOWCASE, EXHIBITION: UCL Cities Methodologies 2012, UCL London. Deadline: 1st May 2012, 5pm

UCL Cities Methodologies 2012
Inaugurated in 2009, Cities Methodologies is a pan-UCL initiative to showcase innovative methods of urban research. Through exhibits and events, it draws together undergraduate, masters, and doctoral research, alongside work produced by academics, and the wider community of urban researchers. Proposals are invited from UCL staff, students and alumni, and other researchers who are developing and using innovative methods to understand cities and urbanization.
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CONFERENCE, CfP: “Political Communication on the Spot” Democratic Cultures and the Local in Europe 1870-1990. 04.-06.04.13. Deadline: 31.03.12.

Politische Kommunikation vor Ort. Demokratische Kulturen und lokaler Raum in Europa 1870-1990 / Political Communication on the Spot. Democratic Cultures and the Local in Europe 1870-1990

Berlin, April 4 – April 6, 2013.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Mergel / Claudia Christiane Gatzka M.A. / Benjamin Schröder M.A., Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Deadline: March 31, 2012

The fundamental politicization that many European societies experienced during the last third of the 19th century appeared to contemporaries and historians alike as a process that might be described as a virtualization of political communication. Successive enlargements of the franchise integrated ever more people into the political process, forcing them to communicate within the framework of parties and other imagined communities. The expansion of a commercialized press, later the emergence of new media, such as the cinema, radio, and television, created a market of opinions; political communication took on the form of mass communication. According to new concepts of the masses and propaganda citizens and electors appeared as a passive ‘target group’ that could easily be manipulated.
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WORKSHOP, CfP: Imaginations of the street European Capital of Culture events and the right to the city, Munich, 03.-04.05.12. Deadline: 11.03.12

Imaginations of the street
European Capital of Culture events and the right to the city

Workshop, 3-4 May 2012
Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Organized by Dr. Derya Özkan, Vildan Seçkiner (M.A.)
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/13102

Deadline: 11 March 2012

This workshop is organized as part of the Emmy Noether Research Project “Changing Imaginations of Istanbul: From Oriental to the ‘Cool’ City”, and will focus on the role of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture (ECoC) Project in the consolidation of the imagination of “cool Istanbul.”
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