Announcements of Interest to Urban Researchers

Urban Environmental Pollution 2010
Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life
20-23 June 2010
Boston, Massachusetts

More information is available at
http://www.uep2010.com/

ARES 2010 Annual Meeting
Naples, Florida
April 14-17, 2010

Introduction to the ARES Conference
The Annual Meeting of the American Real Estate Society offers the chance to gain early exposure to cutting-edge real estate research months or years in advance of its appearance in journals, professional practice or textbooks. ARES also provides a forum for exploring the critical issues of applied real estate decision making. ARES meetings are distinguished by a collegial, inclusive environment in which the only selling that occurs is that of ideas.  This year’s meeting is at a family-friendly resort on Florida’s Gulf coast. Several planning-related tracks include housing, GIS, real estate development, sustainability, international, property price trends, and more. The papers typically are quite quantitative and well developed.

Paper or Abstract Submission
You can look over details on the ARES conference by clicking on this link: http://www.aresnet.org/PDF/naples2010.pdf . We hope to see you in Naples this coming April.

For more information contact Roby Simons:
Dr. Roby Simons
Levin College of Urban Affairs
Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland OH 44115 USA
CSU fax 216 687 9342
CSU tel 216 687 5258
ARES2010@csuohio.edu

Call for papers for workshop

The Developing Role of the Councillor
in a Comparative European Context:
Attitudes, Assumptions and Perceptions
towards Aspects of Local Democracy

ECPR Joint Sessions
Münster, Germany
22-27 March 2010

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More information is available at
http://www.ecprnet.eu/joint_sessions/munster/workshops.asp

Community Development Society (CDS)
International Association for Community Development (IACD)
Joint Annual International Conference
July 24-28, 2010
New Orleans, LA

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2009 State of Australian Cities National Conference
Perth, Australia
Novemeber 24-27, 2009

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Work Matters:
28th Annual International Labour Process Conference
Rutgers University
March 15-17, 2010

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The Inaugural Critical Governance Studies Conference

University of Warwick
13-14 December, 2010

The first Critical Governance Studies conference will be held at the
University of Warwick on 13th and 14th December 2010. The objective of the conference is to bring together scholars and activists challenging orthodoxies
and developing critical approaches to the study of governance.

Read the conference flyer

For more information, visit
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/projects/orthodoxies/

The Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University

invites scholars and practitioners from all fields
to submit paper proposals for a symposium entitled

Global Games and Local Legacies:
Understanding Olympics Outcomes in Host Cities
Vancouver, Canada
October 22-24, 2009

Click here to read the call for papers

Institute for Operations Research
and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Fall National Conference
San Diego, California
October 11 - 14, 2009

Invitation to present research at special session of the conference
** Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2009**

The Section on OR/MS Applied to Public Programs, Service and Needs
(SPPSN) is sponsoring a session on the topic of "Community-Based
Operations Research" for the INFORMS Fall National Conference,
October 11 - 14, 2009, San Diego. We invite all interested persons
to consider presenting current research in this area at this conference session.

Community-based operations research (CBOR) is defined as the collection of analytical methods applied to problem domains in which interests of underrepresented, underserved, or vulnerable populations in localized jurisdictions, formal or informal, receive special emphasis, and for which solutions to problems of core concern for daily living must be identified and implemented so as to jointly optimize economic efficiency, social equity, and administrative burdens.

Presentations in this session can consist of current results
for a specific research problem, a literature review, or a discussion of the nature
of CBOR within the operations research/management science discipline.

Please address all presentation proposals to:

Michael P. Johnson
Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs
University of Massachusetts Boston
michael.johnson@umb.edu

The Offices of Community Affairs and Policy Analysis
of The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

are pleased to invite research papers and session proposals for its conference:

Emerging Strategies to Prevent and Address Spillover Effects
of Foreclosures and Vacant Property
Cleveland, Ohio
March 2010

Click here to read the conference flyer

Society for American City and Regional Planning History

Presents

13th Biennial Conference on Planning History
Oakland, California
October 14–18, 2009

Papers are cordially invited on all aspects of urban, regional and community planning history. Particularly welcome are papers or complete sessions addressing architecture, planning, and landscape design in the Bay area and the West; environmental sustainability, nature and the metropolis; historic preservation; real estate; regions; public art; and studies that consider race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality in planning and the shaping of urban form.

SACRPH is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to promoting scholarship on the history of planning cities and metropolitan regions. Its members come from a range of professions and areas of interest, and include architects, planners, historians, environmentalists, landscape designers, public policy makers, preservationists, community organizers, students and scholars from across the country and around the world.

Proposals are now being accepted for new media sessions.
New media projects are cordially invited on all aspects of urban, regional and community planning history. Projects of oral history, film, audio, web, interactive maps, virtual exhibits and other new media/non-paper formats concerned
with research, presentation and/or teaching of history are sought.

Click here for more information about these sessions

For complete information about the conference, please visit http://www.dcp.ufl.edu/sacrph/conference/conference.html