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CITY PLANNING EXHIBITS Urban History Association (UHA) New York City, NY 26-28 October, 2012 http://uha.udayton.edu/conf.html Deadline: Friday, February 24 We are hoping to complete a panel on “City Planning Exhibits” for the Urban History Association conference in October. Generally, we are interested in the ways in which urban reformers and planners have conceived of the …
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Call for Papers International Conference SURVEYS ON VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE Their significance in 20th century architectural culture May 17-19, 2012 CEAA | Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo, Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP), Porto, Portugal
Democracy and Cities – The Future of prevention – Saint-Denis, France. 12.12.2012 Since its creation, 25 years ago, the Forum has organised every six years an international conference, allowing to build a common doctrine formalised in our Manifestos. Throughout the years, these manifestos have become a reference and circulate around the world, including in the …
Call for Papers (submission deadline 4 February 2012) Rethinking Urban Inclusion: Spaces, Mobilisations, Interventions to be held in Coimbra, Portugal, 28-30 June 2012 Conference held under the initiative “Cities Are Us” With almost half the world’s population living in cities, questioning the urban dimension of social inclusion and exclusion is imperative. Urban inclusion is increasingly …
Emerging Boundaries of Praxis 9th AHRA Research Student Conference. 19-20 May 2012. Aberdeen Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Robert Gordon University With IDEAS Research Institute; Environment for People Call for papers New Urban Conditions are transforming the way we perceive urban issues and recognize new research strands. Shifting socio-economic and political conditions and the urban …
On your marks! The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit in 2010 brought together for the first time volunteers and scientists from a wide range of Web-based science projects, ranging from volunteer computing (SETI@home, ClimatePrediction.net) to volunteer thinking (GalaxyZoo, Herbaria@home) to volunteer sensing (EpiCollect, NoiseTube) and much more. Historians, journalists, teachers and businessmen all brought their angle …
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Nationalism and the City Friday 10 February – Saturday 11 February 2012 Location: CRASSH, 7 West Road, University of Cambridge This conference is about the possibilities and interdictions of cities, the formation of political horizons, and the dynamics of identity. The object is to address an intersection: to consider histories and trajectories of nationalism as …
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AG Architektursoziologie an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt 02.02.2012-03.02.2012, Darmstadt, Rundeturmstraße 10, Darmstadt Deadline: 20.01.2012 Am 2. und 3. Februar 2012 findet ein internationaler Workshop der AG Architektursoziologie an der TU Darmstadt statt. Das Programm versammelt international renommierte Forscher/-innen aus Architektur, Planung, Soziologie, Kunstgeschichte, Geographie und Anthropologie. Im Zentrum stehen die Konstitutionsbedingungen des architektonischen Feldes sowie …
CIEE Summer 2012 International Faculty Development Seminar in Turkey “Consuming Istanbul: Space, Spectacle and the Politics of Popular Culture” http://www.ciee.org/ifds/seminars/turkey/index.aspx June 11 – 22, 2012 Program Description: Since the 1980’s, Turkey, in particular Istanbul, has seen unprecedented transformations with the influences of rapid urbanization, the emergence of consumerism and the “opening” up to new configurations …
The City. Analyzing Contemporary Transformations and Structures – Bielefeld 03/12 09.03.2012-10.03.2012, Bielefeld, IBZ, Universität Bielefeld, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany Deadline: 01.10.2011 Today, we focus on different aspects of urbanity when we talk about characteristics of and challenges for contemporary societies and their built environment. Depending on the respective point of view, demographic changes, the anticipated climate …