Mumbles Regeneration

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7302831.stm

Worries over 'Valleywood' studios

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7301880.stm

consultation on SEA of nuclear policy

http://www.berr.gov.uk/consultations/page45265.html

Consultation: Strategic environmental assessment scoping report for
proposed national policy statement for new nuclear power


Starting Date: 13-03-08

Closing Date: 21-04-08

This statutory consultation is on the scope of the Strategic
Environmental Assessment (SEA) for a proposed National Policy Statement
(NPS) on planning for new nuclear power stations. It proposes how the
SEA will be undertaken, the level and type of information to be covered
in the Environmental Report, and how the SEA will be integrated into the
development of the proposed Nuclear NPS.

The consultation is intended to seek views from statutory consultees
which are the Environment Agency, English Heritage, Natural England, the
Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland), Scottish Ministers,
Historic Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, the Scottish Environment
Protection Agency, the Welsh Assembly Government, Cadw, Countryside
Council for Wales and the Environment Agency Wales.

We are also consulting the Department of Health, the Health Protection
Agency, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Defra and the Industrial
and Radiochemical Inspectorate (Northern Ireland) because of their roles
in relation to the regulation of nuclear facilities. This is not a
public consultation but we will consider any comments from other persons
or organisations submitted before the consultation closes on 21 April 2008.

Analysing Socio-Economic Data at the Neighbourhood Level

New One Day Course at CCSR for researchers and practitioners

Analysing Socio-Economic Data at the Neighbourhood Level

Dates: 9/5/2008

Duration: 1 day

This new one-day course will provide participants with the practical skills
necessary to analyse data at small spatial scales below local authority
level. The first part of the day will identify the national and local data
sources which can be used to understand the dynamics of neighbourhoods. It
will also consider solutions for analysing change within ‘non-standard’
boundaries such as regeneration or service delivery areas. The second part
of the day will consist of themed sessions delivered by practitioners and
academics with first-hand experience of developing practical solutions for
tackling three common research puzzles at the neighbourhood level:
monitoring population change with an ethnic dimension (Ludi Simpson, CCSR);
understanding the dynamics of housing markets (Joy Thompson, New East
Manchester); and measuring spatial inequalities in health (Anne Cunningham,
Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory). The emphasis is on
providing participants with the analytical tools to pursue their own
research projects at the neighbourhood level. There will also be an
opportunity to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software to
understand how it can enhance the analytical capabilities of organisations
working in neighbourhoods.

For more information and to book go to CCSR website at
www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/external/2007-2008

Liminalities TOC (Special Issue: the city)

We are pleased to announce the release of +Liminalities+ 4.1, a special expanded-length issue on the theme of "The City," guest-edited by Daniel Makagon of DePaul University. This issue includes critical essays, ethnographies, videos, and performance texts.

http://liminalities.net/4-1/

Table of Contents:

I Love Livin' in the City
by Daniel Makagon

Places and Stages: Narrating and Performing the City in Milan, Italy
by Cristina Moretti

"Finders Keepers": Performing the Street, the Gallery and the Spaces In-between
by Luke Dickens

Making Sense of the City: Place, Space, and Rhetoric in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square
by erin daina mcclellan

Unsafe Houses: The Narrative Inversion of Suburban Morality in Popular Film
by Joan Faber McAlister

Space Wars & Walking through a Liquid Forest of Symbols
by Anders Lund Hansen

Staging and Enforcing Consumerism in the City: The Performance of Othering on the 16th Street Mall
by Richard G. Jones, Jr. & Christina R. Foust

"Full of Proud Memories of the Past, on which Irishmen Love to Dwell": Irish Nationalist Performance and the Orange Riots of 1871
by Stephen Rohs

A Taste of Buffalo: Staging the Lives of U.S. Cities
by David J. Eshelman

Flowing Through the City: An Urban Ethnography
by Renee Human

+Liminalities+ is a peer-reviewed journal for performance studies, theory and praxis. Our goal is to embrace the possibilities for presenting performance studies work by exploring and exploiting the "staging" potential of digital media. We publish essays, aesthetic works, digital media projects, documentaries, book reviews, interviews, and works about pedagogy & performance. For more information, visit http://liminalities.net

Take care,
Daniel
________________________
Daniel Makagon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
College of Communication
DePaul University
2320 North Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
(773) 325-7376
http://condor.depaul.edu/~dmakagon/

Rural and Urban Solo Living in Scotland: Interim Seminar

**Apologies for cross-posting**


Please do circulate amongst those who may be interested.


Rural and Urban Solo Living in Scotland

Interim Seminar: Findings of the first stage of research

Friday 30th May 2008, 10.00am - 3pm

Godfrey Thomson Hall, Moray House, Edinburgh

You are invited to an interim seminar to present the findings from the
first
stage of the Rural and Urban Solo Living in Scotland study.

This is a two year study investigating the socio-economic circumstances,
experiences and expectations of working age adults living alone in
relation
to issues such as employment, housing, location, partnership and
parenting.
This seminar presents the findings of the first stage of the research,
based
on telephone interviews with 140 men and women across Scotland.

The increasing incidence of solo living in recent years has implications
for
many social policies and for the provision of services in rural and
urban
areas. The aim of the seminar is to engage academics, policy makers and
practitioners with the implications of the interim findings for their
sphere
of work, and to identify topics that they would wish to be pursued in
greater depth in subsequent follow-up interviews.

Who should attend?
Researchers; local authority representatives - particularly those
responsible for housing, planning, strategy and community care, civil
servants, policy analysts, voluntary organisations and practitioners
with
an interest in changing families and households.

The themes of the conference include:
Demographic change
Housing and neighbourhoods
Social Inclusion
Community care
Work/life balance
Family and friendship relationships across households

Discussants include:

Cecilia MacIntyre, General Registrar of Scotland Moira Maconachie,
University of Plymouth

This event is free however places are limited.

To book a place, please visit the CRFR web site:
http://www.crfr.ac.uk/events/solo_living.htm.


This study is supported by The Economic and Social Research Council.

Slumburbs?

An interesting article in SF Gate about edge city decline:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/15/BU7NVIT2O.DTL