Announcements of Interest to Urban Researchers

People Who Are Homeless Can Be Housed
An insight into successful practices from across Europe

FEANSTA European Conference
Cardiff City Hall
November 13-14, 2008

This important European Conference will be an opportunity for representatives from homeless organisations, policy makers, housing experts and researchers to discuss key issues in relation to housing solutions for people experiencing homelessness.

For more information, visit www.feantsa.org.

5th Urban Research Symposium
on Cities and Climate Change:
Responding to an Urgent Agenda
www.urs2009.net

June 28-30, 2009
Marseille, France

        Proposal submission deadline is September 30

Please visit www.urs2009.net for more information, the call for papers,
and the submittal form.

Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference: "Urban Childhoods"

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
March 6, 2009

The New York Institute of Technology announces its fifth interdisciplinary conference, “Urban Childhoods.” Scholars from a range of disciplines are invited to interpret the theme broadly for this one-day conference at NYIT's Columbus Circle campus.

The conference, as in past years, will draw scholars from around the country and world for panel discussions, featured speakers, and lively conversation. Keynote speakers, such as author Mark Kurlansky, sociologist Saskia Sassen, and historian Kenneth T. Jackson, have added to the depth of past conferences.

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Request for Proposals

The Department of Economic and Community Development at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is announcing a Request for Proposals

Race to the Top:
Investments in Human, Social, Cultural, Political, and Environmental Capital as Economic Development Strategies

The Department of Economic and Community Development focuses on problems related to the distribution of the costs and benefits of land use and development.

Race to the Top is our new initiative that investigates how communities and regions can invest in land, people and places for the purposes of economic and community development. 

We are interested in papers from a variety of disciplines that take a variety of approaches, including theoretical, empirical, and evaluation of policies.  Please check the following link to the Lincoln Institute website for the RFP and further details.

CALL FOR PAPERS

47th International Making Cities Livable Conference
on True Urbanism: Cities for Health & Well-Being
Portland, OR, May 10 – 14, 2009
Co-sponsored by The City of Portland & Portland Metro Planning Council

Proposals should be prepared for blind peer review.
State title of paper, name of author, affiliation,
and full contact information on cover email.
Attach Word file with abstract (200 – 250 words).
Please send to: Suzanne.Lennard@LivableCities.org

Deadline for submission: October 15th, 2008
For more information, see www.LivableCities.org

Environmental Contamination,
Adaptive Reuse,
and Public Health
Call for papers
Edited by:
Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore, Richard Hula, and Laura Reese
Michigan State University

EURA and UAA Joint 2009 Conference
City Futures in a Globalising World
Call for papers
Madrid, Spain, 4th - 6th June 2009
www.cityfutures2009.com

European Urban Research Association (EURA)
2008 Conference
Learning Cities in a Knowledge-based Global Society
Call for papers
Milan, Italy, 9th - 11th October 2008
http://eura2008.polimi.it

Journal of Urban Design
Call for Papers
New Orleans and the Design Moment

For this special issue of the Journal of Urban Design, the guest editors seek contributions that analyze the design moment in New Orleans
following the disaster of August 29, 2005.

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