NEWSLETTER Planum Newsletter no. 4/2012 | July 2012

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 our website. The Journal is now articulated into a “Magazine” column, with peer-review evaluated articles and internal evaluated by the Editorial Board articles; a “News and Events” column, with information on call for papers, conferences and competitions; a “Journals and Books” column, with the presentation and revie
w of international publishers’ new books. 

Planum is promoted by the Planum Association, which is open to academic and research institutes, practitioners associations and scientific journals. It is an international scientific journal with a proper ISSN code (1723-0993) evaluated in the academic rankings of scientific work. Planum follows the practice of the double-blind refereeing of submitted papers and research reports. The editorial staff is based in the DiAP Department of Architecture and Planning, Politecnico di Milano (Editor: Prof. P. Gabellini; Deputy Editor: Prof. M. Cremaschi; Editor in Chief: Ph.D. G. Fini).
Planum is open to new proposals for articles and specific issues in addition to events, calls for papers, and book reviews. 
Enjoy the reading on our web site and follow Planum on our social networks as well! (see the links below)

PUB, JOURNAL Sustain. 2012/26 Active Transportation. University of Kentucky. The Kentucky Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Development

“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. Anthony, 1896

For the past few years, I have been thinking of whether cities can survive if they depend almost solely on being car dependent. Cities that are doing well provide a lot of transportation options – San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. I think cities that survive will create greater opportunities for active transportation and those that don’t accommodate walkers, bikers, scooters, buses and subways will die when gas hits $5 to $10 a gallon. We just released a special edited issue of _Sustain: Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Issues_ that has a focus on urban active transportation – walking and biking as a means of creating better health, cleaner air and new economic opportunities.
Continue reading “PUB, JOURNAL Sustain. 2012/26 Active Transportation. University of Kentucky. The Kentucky Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Development”

PANEL SEARCH European Society for Environmental History Conference 20.-24.8.2013. Munich, Germany. Deadline: End August 2012

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.
Continue reading “PANEL SEARCH European Society for Environmental History Conference 20.-24.8.2013. Munich, Germany. Deadline: End August 2012”

PANEL SEARCH Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Los Angeles 9.-13.4.2013 Session Title: Moving to Berlin – A Growing Laboratory of Urban Thought and Research. Deadline: 1.9.2012

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 Binder, Urban Sociology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

“Moving to Berlin” will use three paper sessions and a panel discussion to explore some of the key debates in urban research that have emerged from or through the city over the last two decades. As such, the session will examine relationships between Berlin as an empirical field of research and the critical concepts, discourses and debates that characterize its specific intellectual milieu. Following in the spirit of one of this year’s AAG Annual Meeting’s emerging themes -“Beyond the Los Angeles School”- we seek to critically discuss the potential
classification of Berlin as a ‘school of urban research’ that expands the way we think about cities in general whilst exploring the individual character and peculiarities of Berlin as a growing laboratory of urban thought and research.
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PANEL SEARCH “The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations and New Political Subjectivities in the Rebellious Mediterranean.” Mersin, Turkey 20.-23.3.2013. Deadline 15.9.12

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 and New Political Subjectivities in the Rebellious Mediterranean.”

http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/RobertSchumanCentre/Research/InternationalTransnationalRelations/MediterraneanProgramme/MRM/Mrm2013.aspx

We seek empirical and theoretical papers addressing these processes from young and established scholars in the social sciences and humanities. Contemporary and historical perspectives are both welcome.
Continue reading “PANEL SEARCH “The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations and New Political Subjectivities in the Rebellious Mediterranean.” Mersin, Turkey 20.-23.3.2013. Deadline 15.9.12″

PANEL SEARCH “The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations and New Political Subjectivities in the Rebellious Mediterranean.” Mersin, Turkey 20.-23.3.2013, Deadline: 15.9.2012

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 and New Political Subjectivities in the Rebellious Mediterranean.”

http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/RobertSchumanCentre/Research/InternationalTransnationalRelations/MediterraneanProgramme/MRM/Mrm2013.aspx

We seek empirical and theoretical papers addressing these processes from young and established scholars in the social sciences and humanities. Contemporary and historical perspectives are both welcome.

The 2011 Arab uprisings and indignados protests in cities throughout the Mediterranean basin have witnessed the rise of a new historical generation intimately tied to evolving social and urban landscapes. More than a year later, certain cities remain a crucial site for staging the ongoing struggles against the remnants of the old order in Arab countries or massive protests in European countries. Although often depicted as relatively peaceful, these popular revolts have generated forms of violence, which challenge our understanding of how urban pluralism within various boundaries and scales (ethnic, religious, spatial, etc.) has been managed in a comparative perspective. This workshop seeks to break away from simplistic Orientalist strands of scholarship, which emphasize antiquity, confinement or religiosity around Muslim or holy cities, as well as from colonial depictions of urban duality – a literature that too often overlooks inter-communal dynamics at the micro-level and underestimates social networking across ethnic divides. Instead, the workshop seeks papers that can shed light on the historical and contemporary urban transformations, which have favored the emergence of new political subjectivities and cross-sectarian alliances as well as violent communal conflicts.

The organizers will provide partial funding for travel expenses of select participants.

The deadline for abstract submission is September 15. Decisions will be made my early October. Final papers are due by February 15.

To send your abstract, fill in the online form at:
http://www.rscas.org/application/?p=apply&appl=mrm2013

Daniel Monterescu
Central European University

Benoit Challand,
New York University

FUNDING PhD-scholarship “GIStorical Antwerp”

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 Flemish Hercules Foundation (Medium-size research infrastructure) and the University of Antwerp. It aims to design a GIS (Geographical Information Systems)-environment and micro-level data tool for the historical analysis of urban societies and environments, taking the city of Antwerp as an example, and using space to integrate a wide variety of historical geo-data (ranging from census and cadastral data, to building permits, archeological excavation reports, crime statistics, building permits, urban iconography etc.) at the level of the individual house
and household. For the inner city of Antwerp — one of the major commercial centers of the Low Countries since the later Middle Ages – a GIS-framework will be created that allows to integrate and analyse these data, and map their spatial and chronological development. In a first phase, the project will be emphasizing on 18th and 19th century Antwerp, but follow-up projects will be developed that aim to expand its chronological range from the medieval period until the 20th century, as well to transfer the system to test-cases outside Antwerp as well. Together with the team of the UA-Centre for Urban History and the City of Antwerp, and the supervisors of the project Bruno Blondé, Tim Soens and Tim Bisschops, the PhD-student will not only be developing the GIS-environment and data-sets, but also test its functionality through a PhD-project on the environmental and/or spatial history of Antwerp in the ‘long’ 19th century.

Profile
You are:
– EITHER a Master, Licentiate (or equivalent) in History with a profound research interest in large-scale datasets, and willing to become an expert in historical GIS.
– OR a Master, Licentiate (or equivalent) in Geography, Archeology, Urban Planning or other relevant disciplines in Humanities, Social or Natural Sciences, with a profound research interest in (urban) history.
– Passionate about old maps and the history of cartography.
– Both an independent worker and a teamplayer
– Qualified to obtain a Belgian PhD doctoral grant (not having received a Belgian doctoral grant before and not having worked as a scientific collaborator or assistant at the University of Antwerp longer than 1 year).

Candidates who will obtain a Master’s degree at the end of the present academic year may apply.

Tasks:
– designing, developing and expanding the GIStorical Antwerp infrastructure (in close collaboration with the other members of the project team)
– input and analysis of large datasets on 18th and 19th century Antwerp (e.g. maps, census data, tax lists, iconographic data etc.)
– preparing a PhD on the environmental and/or spatial history of Antwerp in the ‘long’ 19th century

We offer:
– A Four-year PhD-doctoral Grant (2012-2016)
– an attractive and highly stimulating research environment.
– A highly competitive financial remuneration scheme (doctoral grant about 1800-1900 € per month net (tax-exempt).
– The opportunity to develop highly divergent and multifunctional research skills, including GIS, data analysis, iconographic analysis.
– The opportunity to embark on a longer-term research project, as the explicit aim of the research team is to continue the development and extension of the infrastructure by applying for additional research funding beyond 2016.

How to apply?
Send a cover letter, your CV, and a copy of your undergraduate and Master’s degrees before August 20, 2012 to tim.soens@ua.ac.be (e-mail).
Interviews will be organised in the second half of August. The PhD fellowship will normally start on October 1, 2012.
http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CSG&n=104663&ct=104663&e=301678

Tim Soens
Departement Geschiedenis — Department of History
Universiteit Antwerpen — University of Antwerp
www.ua.ac.be/tim.soens

CONF 3rd International Conference on Urban Mobility: Its Impacts on Socio-cultural and Health Issues, Surabaya, Indonesia, 7.-8.12.2012.

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 redefine social relationships, religious identities, gender identities, social norms, and health issues in urban societies characterized by rapid pace of changes.

SUB-THEMES
shifting gender and sexual identities, urban mobility and language variations, language and social changes, urban communities and popular cultures, health and life styles in urban societies, technology and urban society, eco awareness in urban societies, local traditions in urbanized societies, literatures, languages, and identities in cyber societies, religious practices in urbanized societies, urban space and economy.

DATE & VENUE
7-8 December 2012
Airlangga University – Surabaya – INDONESIA

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Associate Prof. Catherine Driscoll (The University of Sydney,
Australia), Constance Kampf, PhD (Aarhus University, Denmark), Associate
Prof. Goh Beng Lan (National University of Singapore), Deny Arnos Kwary,
PhD (Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia), Manneke Budiman, PhD (University
of Indonesia), Dr. Purnawan Basundoro (Universitas Airlangga,
Indonesia), Dr. Rahmat Hargono (Universitas Airlangga),
Prof. Wan Zawawi Ibrahim (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)

Arum Budiastuti
English Department – Faculty of Humanities
Universitas Airlangga

Planum The Journal of Urbanism Newsletter July 2012 – Choice of planner’s study programs

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 and formative demands. Masters and MSc are open for applications for students a
nd practitioners. Fell free to share our newsletter to whom may be interested, such as students, scholars or others colleagues. For further information, please follow the links to Planum “News and Events” column, to Universities and Masters websites or use the E-mail contacts. Good reading and good applications!

Planum has recently updated its website and is hosting a growing and updated number of articles and list of contents.
The Journal is now articulated into a “Magazine” column, with peer reviewed articles; a “News and Events” column,
with information on call for papers, conferences and competitions; a “Journals and Books” column, with presentation and review of international publishers’ new books.
Planum is promoted by the Planum Association, which is open to academic and research institutes, practitioners associations and scientific journals. It is an international scientific journal with a proper ISSN code (1723-0993) evaluated in the academic rankings of scientific work. Planum is open to new proposals for articles and specific issues in addition to events,
calls for papers and book reviews. 
Enjoy the reading on our web site and follow Planum on our social networks as well (see the links below).

MASTERS AND SCHOOLS

DPEA | Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette

International Post-Master
Recherches en Architecture 2012-2013

Deadline:6 July 2012
Duration: 1 accademic year of 34 weeks with one day at week of lesson
Language: French
Credits: 60 ECTS

Les mutations et transformations territoriales, urbaines et architecturales observables dans bien des parties du monde actuel constituent un défi qui ne saurait se limiter aux seuls aspects spatiaux. Observer ces transformations ne saurait donc suffire: il faut les comprendre pour mieux agir.

Contacts: Main we
bsite
 | Master Website | E-mail contact


EUR | Erasmus University Rotterdam
UGM | Gadjah Mada University Indonesia

MSc Double degree
Urban and Regional Planning and Management in Indonesia

Deadline: mid July 2012
Duration: 3 September 2012 – 27 September 2014
Language: English

The Master programme combines one year in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on urban and regional planning in Indonesia with one year on urban management and development in the Netherlands. It offers two accredited master diplomas within a two year.

Contacts: Main website | Master website | E-mail contact


ETH | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Master Courses
· Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems Master (Credits ECTS: 120)
· Geomatic Engineering and Planning Master (Credits ECTS: 90)

Deadline: 1 November or 15 December 2012 – to start the programme the following October
Duration: 3 or 4 semesters
Language: English and German
Credits: 120 – 60 ECTS

The Spatial Master Course offers a broadly based education in the fields of Spatial Use, Development a
nd Economics, Planning Methodology, Communication, Transport Planning and Systems. 
The Geomatic Master‘s knowledge ranges from the geosciences to computer science to spatial planning. Geomatic engineers monitor the structures of our living and working space, and contribute to a better understanding of processes relevant to the earth’s environment.

Contacts: Spatial Master Website | Geomatic Master Website | E-mail contact


TU | Delft University of Technology

Master of Science
Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

Deadline: between December and April – to start the programme the following October
Duration: 2 years
Language: Dutch and English

The Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft offers a dynamic Master’s programme very much informed by the unique circumstances of the Netherlands, where the high population density has strongly influenced thinking ab
out how to work creatively with space. The Faculty has an outstanding reputation and attracts students from all over the world. The programme is especially strong in such areas as design, research, management, technology and research-by-design.

Contacts: Main website | Master website | E-mail contact


UCL | University College of London
The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment

Master of Science
MSc International Planning

Deadline: 3 August 2012
Duration: Full-time 1 year; Part-time 2 years or more
Language: English
Credits: 180 ECTS

The MSc International Planning is intended for students who want an international perspective on planning systems and cultures or are likely to work outside the UK after their studies. The programme consists of six core modules (90 credits), one specialism with two module
s (30 credits), and a research dissertation (60 credits).

Contacts: Main website | Master website | E-mail contact


UPC | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Master of Science
Master’s degree in Urbanism

Deadline: before September 2012
Duration: 2 years
Language: Spanish
Credits: 120 ECTS

The field of urbanism must be closely linked to the rapid changes in our society in the new information era, and to the growing complexity of urban phenomena and their interaction. The aim of this master’s degree is to provide resources to confront the challenges of contemporary urban planning, as well as new tools for critical intervention in different contexts.

Contacts: Main website | Master Website | E-mail contact

 


Politecnico di Milano 

Master of Science
Urban Planning and Policy Design

Deadline: 5 September 2011 for entry in October, 20 February 2012 for entry in March
Duration: 2 years
Language: English
Credits: 120 ECTS

The aim of the Programme is to train highly-qualified figures in the field of spatial planning at the urban and territorial scale, construction, assessment and management of complex programmes and projects for change and governance of cities, territories and landscape.

Contacts: Main Website | Master Website | E-mail contact


KTH | Royal Institute of Technology Stockolm

Master of Science
Master Sustainable Urban Planning and Design (THSSM)

Deadline: 15 October for studies/project work starting in January, later for those in the spring
Duration: 2 years
Language: English
Credits: 120 ECTS

The Master’s programme in Sustainable Urban Planning and Design prepares students for these tasks and provides them with a thorough understanding of the planning process and the aesthetic, social, economic and environmental determinants that contribute
to sustainable urban development. The programme brings together students of architecture, planning, civil engineering, and natural and social sciences.

Contacts: Main Website | Master Website | E-mail contact


University of Copenhagen

Master of Science
MSc in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design

Deadline: 1 January – to start the programme the following October
Duration: 2 years
Language: English
Credits: 120 ECTS

As an MSc in landscape architecture and urban design, you shape the future urban environments and housing areas, parks and landscapes, so that they provide excellent human and natural settings for many years to come. During the MSc programme, you specialise in landscape planning, park management or urban design.

Contacts: Main Website | Master Website | E-mail contact


 

Università IUAV di Venezia
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Universitat de Girona
Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa
Università di Sassari

European Master Course
Planning and Policies for Cities, Environment and Landscape

Deadline: forthcoming
Duration: 2 years
Language: Italian and Spanish

The European Masters Course in Planning and policies for the City, Environment and Landscape is a joint degree course offered by the CAP Consortium partners, that include two Italian univerisities, two Spanish-Catalan universities and one Portuguese university. Students will have the possibility of studying for one semester at three universities of choice, and can
choose to work on their thesis and/or participate in a job placement scheme in numerous other international destinations.

Contacts: Main website | Master Website | E-mail contact


TU | Delft University of Technology
UPC | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
KUL | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Università IUAV di Venezia

EMU European Postgraduate Master
Urbanism Strategies and design for cities and territories

Deadline: related to the hosting institution
Duration: 2 years (4 semester)
Language: English
Credits: 120 ECTS

The joint European Postgraduate master programme in Urbanism is focused on a set of key issues (to be periodically reviewed and up-dated) which reflect contemporary challenges within cities and territories. The issues frame the design studios and provide the stude
nts with a structure to orient their individual educations tracks. The master course is design oriented and affirms the role of design in the knowledge process, while integrating different levels of scale. Learning by doing, research by design and the project as knowledge producer constitute the key concerns and standpoints of this master.

Contacts: Master Website | E-mail contact


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52nd Newsletter of the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies (Berlin)

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 ***

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“Austerity urbanism”: American cities under extreme economy

Austerity budgeting in the public sector, selectively targeting the social state, is a long-established trait of neoliberal governance, but it has been enforced with systemic intensity in the period since the Wall Street crash.  Austerity represents an historic opportunity to press for yet smaller small-state settlements at the urban scale; in defining government downsizing and rolling privatization as fiscal necessities, it is neoliberal terrain. These conditions of devolved fiscal constraint are defining a new operational matrix for urban politics in the United States.  Examining some of the leading and bleeding edges of austerity’s ‘extreme economy’ in American cities, these developments are located in the context of mutating processes of neoliberal urbanism, along with it social and spatial consequences (Peck, 2011: Theodore et al, 2011). [Text: Jamie Peck]
Jamie Peck’s latest findings will be discussed on July 9th at 6:00 pm at the Soziologisches Institut as part of the Georg-Simmel Think & Drink Colloquium. Two of his recent articles are “Neoliberal suburbanism: frontier space. Urban Geography 32(6) 884-919 (2011)” and together with Neil Brenner and Nick Theodore “Neoliberal urbanism: cities and the rule of markets. In G Bridge & S Watson (eds) The new Blackwell companion to the city. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 15-25 (2011)”. Jamie Peck is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, and the Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Political Economy (http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~peck/).
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Georg Simmel Think & Drink Colloquium: The complete list of lectures to be held next Semester can be found by end of September under: http://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/lehrbereiche/stadtsoz/think_drink/wise_1112.
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12.-14.7. Conference “City of  flows”: The conference is organised and conceptualised by the »City-Climate Potsdam« Innovation Institute of the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with Potsdam City Council. The following questions are dealt with: What does being connected to global networks mean for today’s cities? How do global networks manifest themselves in everyday life? And how are limited analog spaces reflected in the potentially unlimited realm of the virtual? For more information please see: http://www.stadt-der-stroeme.de/en/.
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18.7.: Interest and planning meeting – Study group Berlin-based scholars who share interests in cities and social theory: Talja Blokland and Craig Calhoun would be delighted to welcome interested graduate students to this interest and planning meeting for the 2012-2013 academic year at the BGSS Lounge (Luisenstraße 56, Room 227). The meeting will last from 17-18.30 and be followed by a brief informal reception.
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GSZ-Graduate Studies Group: If you are a post-graduate student in the field of metropolitan studies, currently living in Berlin and looking for discussion partners – please contact the GSZ Graduate Studies Group. Contact: Martin Schwegmann (graduates@gsz.hu-berlin.de).
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Heike Oevermann, Jonna Josties
Subscribers: 1901
Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies
Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin
Mail: Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin
Office: Mohrenstraße 41, Room 418 a-c
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Tel +49-(0)30-2093-5358
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