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Thursday, 8 May 2008
Update from Planners Network UK
Dear PNUK members,
I thought you might like a report back on the event in London recently concerning the Olympics and its planning. The event was really successful on a number of levels – we had about 40 people come on Thursday evening, and about 20 for the longer meeting on Friday. Many were local residents. Iain Sinclair gave a really wonderful and insightful talk about life in the East End, and he was followed by Bill Parry-Davies from OPEN Dalston about large development pressures and disastrous planning messes currently underway in Dalston and Shoreditch. If anyone is keen to be further educated on the potentially harmful effects for local people and environments of holding an Olympics event, then watch the film The Five Ring Circus – an excellent documentary on a series of disasters currently unfolding in Vancouver and its region. Highly recommended.
On Friday we explored a whole range of planning-related issues concerning Olympics developments, the process that has been undertaken to date, the extent to which local people have been able to find a way to have a voice in those processes, and the various challenges they have faced. PNUK members were able to give some feedback on more general aspects of the planning system, its various guises and the changes afoot. Games Monitor representatives felt this was helpful. At the end of Friday, we constructed a list of ideas that might be useful in continuing work in this area. This was simply a brainstorming, rather than a definitive strategy, but there is much that PNUK could do not just on this particular issue of the Olympics but more widely. Here’s a summary of things I thought had particular resonance for a network like PNUK (they aren’t my ideas, they came from a variety of participants):
remind planners (ourselves?) that they’re citizens too. Get planners walking in the neighbourhoods they plan for.
can anybody do something with maps/graphics to show what is coming for the East End if all development plans for towers go ahead, eg show (graphically) the 2012 skyline with its fringe of towers? See skyscrapercity.com
make available some guidance (brief) on how to go about fighting against bad development plans, ways to object and have a say, language to use within the ‘industry’ of development planning. Also, keep a website (pnuk?) up to date on the changing planning system, new threats and opportunities and information that would help local groups
Run a series of seminars on how to fight against bad development, activist-led seminars on how to get through the planning process – hold them on different sites, estates etc to inform people.
more clearly articulate what we are trying to do. PNUK to create a research project and develop an alternative for planning. Provide analysis/data/depth of argument that can give weight to local groups who are trying to develop alternatives for development.
Two additional things emerged:
1. Bill Parry-Davies and the OPEN Dalston/Shoreditch groups are looking for some help to develop alternative plans for their centres and additional specific sites. One of the central concerns we discussed at both events was the importance of having an alternative to present rather than just relying on objections/submissions. The latter is seen as a particularly futile and counter-productive activity and there is considerable interest in developing alternative ‘community’ plans (for want of a better word). If anyone can provide any help at all specifically to OPEN Dalston/OPEN Shoreditch, please be in contact with Bill – his email is: bpd@dowse.co.uk. The OPEN groups have websites, see: http://opendalston.blogspot.com/ and http://open-shoreditch.blogspot.com/
2. Games Monitor are interested in pursing some project work but of course can’t do it themselves because they lack institutional support, funding, access to networks etc. Here’s a way that PNUK members, particularly those based in Universities, might be productively involved. Julian Cheyne (of Games Monitor) and I are currently putting together some thoughts on what the project might look like but will be based around attempting to assess the impact of the Olympics developments, as well as developing alternative models of urban change for the East End.
Anyone interested in any of these, or with helpful comments, ideas, contacts, resources etc. do please get in touch with either me, or Bill Parry-Davies, or just write to the list and share ideas.
By the way, a full report of the London event is now on the website, which you can read at your leisure. You will also find there some other new bits – in particular some papers from the roundtable PNUK hosted at the Planning Research Conference held in Belfast earlier this year. We hope to continue hosting roundtables at conference events in the future as it proved a useful forum for discussion. Be in contact if you’re keen to participate or can organise one.
Libby
Dr Libby Porter
Lecturer in Spatial Planning
Department of Urban Studies
University of Glasgow
25 Bute Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RS
Phone: 0141 330 3664
Email: l.porter@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Interested in progressive planning? Check out Planners Network UK www.pnuk.org.uk
The University of Glasgow is a registered charity, reference SC004401
I thought you might like a report back on the event in London recently concerning the Olympics and its planning. The event was really successful on a number of levels – we had about 40 people come on Thursday evening, and about 20 for the longer meeting on Friday. Many were local residents. Iain Sinclair gave a really wonderful and insightful talk about life in the East End, and he was followed by Bill Parry-Davies from OPEN Dalston about large development pressures and disastrous planning messes currently underway in Dalston and Shoreditch. If anyone is keen to be further educated on the potentially harmful effects for local people and environments of holding an Olympics event, then watch the film The Five Ring Circus – an excellent documentary on a series of disasters currently unfolding in Vancouver and its region. Highly recommended.
On Friday we explored a whole range of planning-related issues concerning Olympics developments, the process that has been undertaken to date, the extent to which local people have been able to find a way to have a voice in those processes, and the various challenges they have faced. PNUK members were able to give some feedback on more general aspects of the planning system, its various guises and the changes afoot. Games Monitor representatives felt this was helpful. At the end of Friday, we constructed a list of ideas that might be useful in continuing work in this area. This was simply a brainstorming, rather than a definitive strategy, but there is much that PNUK could do not just on this particular issue of the Olympics but more widely. Here’s a summary of things I thought had particular resonance for a network like PNUK (they aren’t my ideas, they came from a variety of participants):
remind planners (ourselves?) that they’re citizens too. Get planners walking in the neighbourhoods they plan for.
can anybody do something with maps/graphics to show what is coming for the East End if all development plans for towers go ahead, eg show (graphically) the 2012 skyline with its fringe of towers? See skyscrapercity.com
make available some guidance (brief) on how to go about fighting against bad development plans, ways to object and have a say, language to use within the ‘industry’ of development planning. Also, keep a website (pnuk?) up to date on the changing planning system, new threats and opportunities and information that would help local groups
Run a series of seminars on how to fight against bad development, activist-led seminars on how to get through the planning process – hold them on different sites, estates etc to inform people.
more clearly articulate what we are trying to do. PNUK to create a research project and develop an alternative for planning. Provide analysis/data/depth of argument that can give weight to local groups who are trying to develop alternatives for development.
Two additional things emerged:
1. Bill Parry-Davies and the OPEN Dalston/Shoreditch groups are looking for some help to develop alternative plans for their centres and additional specific sites. One of the central concerns we discussed at both events was the importance of having an alternative to present rather than just relying on objections/submissions. The latter is seen as a particularly futile and counter-productive activity and there is considerable interest in developing alternative ‘community’ plans (for want of a better word). If anyone can provide any help at all specifically to OPEN Dalston/OPEN Shoreditch, please be in contact with Bill – his email is: bpd@dowse.co.uk. The OPEN groups have websites, see: http://opendalston.blogspot.com/ and http://open-shoreditch.blogspot.com/
2. Games Monitor are interested in pursing some project work but of course can’t do it themselves because they lack institutional support, funding, access to networks etc. Here’s a way that PNUK members, particularly those based in Universities, might be productively involved. Julian Cheyne (of Games Monitor) and I are currently putting together some thoughts on what the project might look like but will be based around attempting to assess the impact of the Olympics developments, as well as developing alternative models of urban change for the East End.
Anyone interested in any of these, or with helpful comments, ideas, contacts, resources etc. do please get in touch with either me, or Bill Parry-Davies, or just write to the list and share ideas.
By the way, a full report of the London event is now on the website, which you can read at your leisure. You will also find there some other new bits – in particular some papers from the roundtable PNUK hosted at the Planning Research Conference held in Belfast earlier this year. We hope to continue hosting roundtables at conference events in the future as it proved a useful forum for discussion. Be in contact if you’re keen to participate or can organise one.
Libby
Dr Libby Porter
Lecturer in Spatial Planning
Department of Urban Studies
University of Glasgow
25 Bute Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RS
Phone: 0141 330 3664
Email: l.porter@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Interested in progressive planning? Check out Planners Network UK www.pnuk.org.uk
The University of Glasgow is a registered charity, reference SC004401
Ideal City: Conference and Workshop in Amsterdam October 10-14 Register Now
Ideal City: Conference and Workshop in Amsterdam October 10-14 Register Now
We are doing a conference and workshop: The Ideal City: Amsterdam Conference October 11-14. We are looking for conference papers to be given for a edited book / journal (Sustain). In addition, we have arranged for numerous workshops throughout Amsterdamand Rotterdam on social policy, transportation, housing, green urbanism and tolerance in the Netherlands. We hope our colleagues from Urban Geography will join us and present papers on the "ideal city." Please visit our link for early discount registration:
http://www.hollandnow.org
Dr. John I. Gilderbloom
Conference Coordinator--Ideal City
Louisville, Kentucky
502-582-0024 / jgilde02@sprynet.com
We are doing a conference and workshop: The Ideal City: Amsterdam Conference October 11-14. We are looking for conference papers to be given for a edited book / journal (Sustain). In addition, we have arranged for numerous workshops throughout Amsterdamand Rotterdam on social policy, transportation, housing, green urbanism and tolerance in the Netherlands. We hope our colleagues from Urban Geography will join us and present papers on the "ideal city." Please visit our link for early discount registration:
http://www.hollandnow.org
Dr. John I. Gilderbloom
Conference Coordinator--Ideal City
Louisville, Kentucky
502-582-0024 / jgilde02@sprynet.com
New: MSc Geography, Policy, and Practice, Cardiff University.
MSc Geography, Policy, and Practice, Cardiff University.
The School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University is pleased to
announce that a new MSc is available in Geography, Policy, and Practice
for 2008/9 entry. There are also up to five £1000 bursaries available for
students enrolling on this degree before 30th May.
The MSc in Geography, Policy, and Practice offers a unique opportunity to
study human geography at postgraduate level in a context intimately
connected to current policy developments and informed by contemporary
critical theory.
It capitalises on the distinctive capacities of the School of City and
Regional Planning as a leading centre of expertise in research and
teaching in both human geography and spatial policy. The school’s staff
and students are actively engaged in geographically-related policy
development for a range of governmental, corporate, and voluntary bodies,
as well as critically investigating broader forms of political and civil
society activity.
The degree will develop an integrated and critically aware understanding
of geography, policy and practice. It offers:
• the advanced study of geography as an academic discipline and the
changing external context with which it engages;
• preparation for and/or development of a career in business, local
government, academia, or broader civil society with a critical
understanding of geography and its relationship with policy
• development of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding of
geography to complex issues to improve the functioning of policy and
practices within society.
• enhancement of lifelong learning skills and personal development
so students can strengthen their ability to work with self-direction and
originality and to contribute to geography, policy, and society at large.
Further details of the degree scheme can be found at School’s homepage
http://www.cf.ac.uk/cplan/ or by contacting the Course Director, Dr Jon
Anderson, Email: andersonj@cardiff.ac.uk Tel: (44) 02920 875308.
Deadline for bursary applications is 30th May, 2008.
Dr Jon Anderson
Course Director MSc Geography, Policy, and Practice
Email: AndersonJ@cardiff.ac.uk
Tel: 02920 875308
School of City and Regional Planning,
Cardiff University,
2.71 Glamorgan Building,
King Edward VII Avenue,
Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
CF10 3WA.
The School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University is pleased to
announce that a new MSc is available in Geography, Policy, and Practice
for 2008/9 entry. There are also up to five £1000 bursaries available for
students enrolling on this degree before 30th May.
The MSc in Geography, Policy, and Practice offers a unique opportunity to
study human geography at postgraduate level in a context intimately
connected to current policy developments and informed by contemporary
critical theory.
It capitalises on the distinctive capacities of the School of City and
Regional Planning as a leading centre of expertise in research and
teaching in both human geography and spatial policy. The school’s staff
and students are actively engaged in geographically-related policy
development for a range of governmental, corporate, and voluntary bodies,
as well as critically investigating broader forms of political and civil
society activity.
The degree will develop an integrated and critically aware understanding
of geography, policy and practice. It offers:
• the advanced study of geography as an academic discipline and the
changing external context with which it engages;
• preparation for and/or development of a career in business, local
government, academia, or broader civil society with a critical
understanding of geography and its relationship with policy
• development of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding of
geography to complex issues to improve the functioning of policy and
practices within society.
• enhancement of lifelong learning skills and personal development
so students can strengthen their ability to work with self-direction and
originality and to contribute to geography, policy, and society at large.
Further details of the degree scheme can be found at School’s homepage
http://www.cf.ac.uk/cplan/ or by contacting the Course Director, Dr Jon
Anderson, Email: andersonj@cardiff.ac.uk Tel: (44) 02920 875308.
Deadline for bursary applications is 30th May, 2008.
Dr Jon Anderson
Course Director MSc Geography, Policy, and Practice
Email: AndersonJ@cardiff.ac.uk
Tel: 02920 875308
School of City and Regional Planning,
Cardiff University,
2.71 Glamorgan Building,
King Edward VII Avenue,
Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
CF10 3WA.
Thursday, 1 May 2008
ESF-LiU Conference on THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW ISSUES
Conference Announcement:
ESF-LiU Conference on THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW ISSUES
Dates: 11-15 October 2008
Location: Klosterhotel, Vadstena, Sweden
Programme and applications: accessible online at www.esf.org/conferences/08264
Chair: Professor Bernard Jouve, Universite de Lyon, FR
Co-chair: Dr. Mark Purcell, University of Washington, US
Deadline for applications: 6 June 2008
Grants: some grants are available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and travel
costs.
Further information: www.esf.org/conferences/08264 or Ms. Anne Blondeel-Oman (ablondeel@esf.org)
ESF-LiU Conference on THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW ISSUES
Dates: 11-15 October 2008
Location: Klosterhotel, Vadstena, Sweden
Programme and applications: accessible online at www.esf.org/conferences/08264
Chair: Professor Bernard Jouve, Universite de Lyon, FR
Co-chair: Dr. Mark Purcell, University of Washington, US
Deadline for applications: 6 June 2008
Grants: some grants are available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and travel
costs.
Further information: www.esf.org/conferences/08264 or Ms. Anne Blondeel-Oman (ablondeel@esf.org)
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Health and society events - Cardiff University
The usual H&S meeting will be replaced this month by the Third Julian Tudor-Hart Lecture.
See details below
Lecture which will be given by Professor George Davey Smith, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology,
University of Bristol. The lecture is entitled 'Chance, choice and collective risk: why we need more
impersonal medicine'
Date: Wednesday 14th May 2008
Time: 5:30pm for wine reception, 6:00pm for lecture
Venue: Committee Rooms, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University
Lecture Summary:
Epidemiologists (among others) have successfully identified some modifiable risk factors for
disease, but
there has been dissatisfaction regarding the ability to accurately characterise the prognosis or
risk status of
individuals. The apparent promise of personalised medicine, particularly when based on
pharmacogenomics,
offers to transform practice in this regard. This lecture will suggest that this is fundamentally
misguided, given
that we can only truly understand group- level, rather than individual- level, risk. Evidence from
behavioural
genetics, epidemiology, developmental science and detective novels will be mobilised to support
this position.
The lecture will conclude that, far from needing more personalised medicine, ensuring that those
who could
benefit (impersonally) from effective treatments receive them is the major task for any effective
and equitable
health service today.
For more information and a booking form (if you 've not booked already) please contact Lorelei
Simon at CISHE on the details below.
Tel: 029 2087 9609
Email: CISHE@cardiff.ac.uk
or through the website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe
The following research group meeting will be on June 11th at 4pm in Room -1.72 in the Glamorgan
Building. We are happy to welcome two speakers:
Professor Marcus A. Doel (Head of the School of the Environment and
Society, Swansea University)
Professor Frances Rapport (Head of the Qualitative Research Unit,
School of Medicine, Swansea University)
The title of their presentation is:
"Bio-photographic study of community pharmacy workspace and practice"
Drinks and nibbles to follow.
Many thanks
Eva Elliott
(Convenor of the Health and Society Research Group)
Eva Elliott
RCUK Academic Fellow
Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics
School of Social Sciences,
Cardiff University
53 Park Place
Cardiff
UK
CF10 3AT
Tel: 029 2087 9138
E-mail: elliotte@cf.ac.uk
CISHE website: www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe
WHIASU website: www.whiasu.wales.nhs.uk
See details below
Lecture which will be given by Professor George Davey Smith, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology,
University of Bristol. The lecture is entitled 'Chance, choice and collective risk: why we need more
impersonal medicine'
Date: Wednesday 14th May 2008
Time: 5:30pm for wine reception, 6:00pm for lecture
Venue: Committee Rooms, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University
Lecture Summary:
Epidemiologists (among others) have successfully identified some modifiable risk factors for
disease, but
there has been dissatisfaction regarding the ability to accurately characterise the prognosis or
risk status of
individuals. The apparent promise of personalised medicine, particularly when based on
pharmacogenomics,
offers to transform practice in this regard. This lecture will suggest that this is fundamentally
misguided, given
that we can only truly understand group- level, rather than individual- level, risk. Evidence from
behavioural
genetics, epidemiology, developmental science and detective novels will be mobilised to support
this position.
The lecture will conclude that, far from needing more personalised medicine, ensuring that those
who could
benefit (impersonally) from effective treatments receive them is the major task for any effective
and equitable
health service today.
For more information and a booking form (if you 've not booked already) please contact Lorelei
Simon at CISHE on the details below.
Tel: 029 2087 9609
Email: CISHE@cardiff.ac.uk
or through the website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe
The following research group meeting will be on June 11th at 4pm in Room -1.72 in the Glamorgan
Building. We are happy to welcome two speakers:
Professor Marcus A. Doel (Head of the School of the Environment and
Society, Swansea University)
Professor Frances Rapport (Head of the Qualitative Research Unit,
School of Medicine, Swansea University)
The title of their presentation is:
"Bio-photographic study of community pharmacy workspace and practice"
Drinks and nibbles to follow.
Many thanks
Eva Elliott
(Convenor of the Health and Society Research Group)
Eva Elliott
RCUK Academic Fellow
Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics
School of Social Sciences,
Cardiff University
53 Park Place
Cardiff
UK
CF10 3AT
Tel: 029 2087 9138
E-mail: elliotte@cf.ac.uk
CISHE website: www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe
WHIASU website: www.whiasu.wales.nhs.uk
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
MANCHESTER, MAY 15TH 'ECONOMY, NATURE, SPACE'
MANCHESTER, MAY 15TH 'ECONOMY, NATURE, SPACE'
The full programme is now available for the RGS-IBG Economic
Geography Research Group Annual Symposium on Thursday May 15th. See
http://www.egrg.org.uk/symposium2008.html
Highlights include:
Professor Richard Walker, University of California-Berkeley
--The Chinese Road to Capitalism--
Dr Marcus Power, University of Durham
--New African Choices? The economics and geopolitics of Chinese
engagement with African development--
Dr Daniel Buck, University of Oxford
--The Ecology Question--
Professor Diana Liverman, University of Oxford
--Offsets in the carbon economy--
Professor David Gibbs, University of Hull
--Prospects for an Environmental Economic Geography--
Professor Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester
--Impossible/Undesirable Sustainability and the post-political condition--
The event is open to all. Please circulate widely. To help us plan
numbers, pls register by sending a simple e-mail to Jason Beery
(jason.beery@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk). We should note that the
EGRG has introduced a registration fee of £25 for the Annual
Symposium, payable by those who draw a salary. This can be paid in
advance (by mailing a cheque, payable to EGRG, to the organisers at
the address below) or in person on the 15th.
ON WEDNESDAY 14TH, the EGRG will be holding its annual
Post-Graduate Symposium. We now have an excellent line up of
post-graduate papers (details to be posted on the EGRG website
shortly). This is also an open event - for which there is no charge
- and we look forward to welcoming you. If you intend to come for both
the 14th and 15th, let us know if you would like to receive
information on nearby accommodation.
Gavin Bridge and Jason Beery
School of Environment and Development
University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL
The full programme is now available for the RGS-IBG Economic
Geography Research Group Annual Symposium on Thursday May 15th. See
http://www.egrg.org.uk/symposium2008.html
Highlights include:
Professor Richard Walker, University of California-Berkeley
--The Chinese Road to Capitalism--
Dr Marcus Power, University of Durham
--New African Choices? The economics and geopolitics of Chinese
engagement with African development--
Dr Daniel Buck, University of Oxford
--The Ecology Question--
Professor Diana Liverman, University of Oxford
--Offsets in the carbon economy--
Professor David Gibbs, University of Hull
--Prospects for an Environmental Economic Geography--
Professor Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester
--Impossible/Undesirable Sustainability and the post-political condition--
The event is open to all. Please circulate widely. To help us plan
numbers, pls register by sending a simple e-mail to Jason Beery
(jason.beery@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk). We should note that the
EGRG has introduced a registration fee of £25 for the Annual
Symposium, payable by those who draw a salary. This can be paid in
advance (by mailing a cheque, payable to EGRG, to the organisers at
the address below) or in person on the 15th.
ON WEDNESDAY 14TH, the EGRG will be holding its annual
Post-Graduate Symposium. We now have an excellent line up of
post-graduate papers (details to be posted on the EGRG website
shortly). This is also an open event - for which there is no charge
- and we look forward to welcoming you. If you intend to come for both
the 14th and 15th, let us know if you would like to receive
information on nearby accommodation.
Gavin Bridge and Jason Beery
School of Environment and Development
University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL
ESRC SEMINAR SERIES: GENTRIFICATION AND SOCIAL MIX
ESRC SEMINAR SERIES
GENTRIFICATION AND SOCIAL MIX
2008-2009
Organisers: Tim Butler and Loretta Lees (King's College London); Gary
Bridge and Tom Slater (University of Bristol)
Brief Description:
'Social mix' has long been a planning/policy objective, and a sign of a
healthy, liveable urban area, but the concept has recently come under fire
from academics researching gentrification, especially for being too
one-sided - it is mostly in low-income and/or working-class neighbourhoods
where social mix is to be achieved through an influx of wealthier and/or
middle-class residents. Very rarely is social mix planned for wealthier
neighbourhoods, which raises questions about the motivations and the
politics behind the concept. Furthermore, what kind of social mixing
actually takes place in gentrifying neighbourhoods? Despite a significant
amount of research taking place that addresses these issues, there has been
no organised debate/interaction between researchers and practitioners, and
this seminar series proposes to bring people together to discuss these
issues in depth.
THE 2008 SEMINARS:
SEMINAR 1 (King's College London) MAY 22ND AND 23RD 2008
CHAIR:
Loretta Lees (King's College London)
PAPERS:
Jonny Aspen (Oslo University)
Paul Cheshire (London School of Economics)
Eric Clark (Lund University)
Mark Davidson (University of Western Sydney)
Chris Hamnett (King's College London)
Mike Savage (University of Manchester)
DISCUSSANTS:
Clare Colomb (Bartlett, University College London)
Kirsteen Paton (University of Glasgow)
SEMINAR 2 (University of Bristol) SEPTEMBER 25TH AND 26TH 2008
CHAIR:
Gary Bridge (University of Bristol)
PAPERS:
Marie-Helene Bacque (Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne)
Edmond Preteceille (Sciences Po, Paris)
Damaris Rose (INRS, University of Quebec)
Kate Shaw (University of Melbourne)
Justus Uitermark (University of Amsterdam)
Matthieu van Criekingen (Free University, Brussels)
DISCUSSANTS:
David Webb (University of Newcastle)
TBA
----------------------
Dr. Tom Slater
Centre for Urban Studies,
University of Bristol,
8 Priory Road
Bristol BS8 1TZ
U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)117 331 0808
Fax: +44 (0)117 954 6756
http://www.bris.ac.uk/sps/research/cus/staff/slater.shtml
http://members.lycos.co.uk/gentrification
GENTRIFICATION AND SOCIAL MIX
2008-2009
Organisers: Tim Butler and Loretta Lees (King's College London); Gary
Bridge and Tom Slater (University of Bristol)
Brief Description:
'Social mix' has long been a planning/policy objective, and a sign of a
healthy, liveable urban area, but the concept has recently come under fire
from academics researching gentrification, especially for being too
one-sided - it is mostly in low-income and/or working-class neighbourhoods
where social mix is to be achieved through an influx of wealthier and/or
middle-class residents. Very rarely is social mix planned for wealthier
neighbourhoods, which raises questions about the motivations and the
politics behind the concept. Furthermore, what kind of social mixing
actually takes place in gentrifying neighbourhoods? Despite a significant
amount of research taking place that addresses these issues, there has been
no organised debate/interaction between researchers and practitioners, and
this seminar series proposes to bring people together to discuss these
issues in depth.
THE 2008 SEMINARS:
SEMINAR 1 (King's College London) MAY 22ND AND 23RD 2008
CHAIR:
Loretta Lees (King's College London)
PAPERS:
Jonny Aspen (Oslo University)
Paul Cheshire (London School of Economics)
Eric Clark (Lund University)
Mark Davidson (University of Western Sydney)
Chris Hamnett (King's College London)
Mike Savage (University of Manchester)
DISCUSSANTS:
Clare Colomb (Bartlett, University College London)
Kirsteen Paton (University of Glasgow)
SEMINAR 2 (University of Bristol) SEPTEMBER 25TH AND 26TH 2008
CHAIR:
Gary Bridge (University of Bristol)
PAPERS:
Marie-Helene Bacque (Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne)
Edmond Preteceille (Sciences Po, Paris)
Damaris Rose (INRS, University of Quebec)
Kate Shaw (University of Melbourne)
Justus Uitermark (University of Amsterdam)
Matthieu van Criekingen (Free University, Brussels)
DISCUSSANTS:
David Webb (University of Newcastle)
TBA
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Dr. Tom Slater
Centre for Urban Studies,
University of Bristol,
8 Priory Road
Bristol BS8 1TZ
U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)117 331 0808
Fax: +44 (0)117 954 6756
http://www.bris.ac.uk/sps/research/cus/staff/slater.shtml
http://members.lycos.co.uk/gentrification
SOCSI SOCIAL THEORY SYMPOSIUM - Cardiff University
SOCSI SOCIAL THEORY SYMPOSIUM
Thursday, May 15th , 2008
Schedule
10.15 a.m. Welcome
Session One : 10.30 a.m. – 11.15 a.m.
Actors' and Analysts' Categories and the Politics of Sociological Research
Professor Harry Collins
11.15 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Q/A
Session Two : 11.30 a.m. – 12.15 p.m.
The Future of Morality
Professor Ralph Fevre
12.15 p.m. – 12.30 p.m. Q/A
12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. Break
Session Three: 1.30 p.m. – 2.15 p.m.
Subjectivity
Professor Valerie Walkerdine
2.15 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Q/A
Session Four: 2.30 p.m. – 3.15 p.m.
Time for Social Theory
Professor Barbara Adam
3.15 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. Q/A
3.35 p.m. CLOSE
Council Chamber, Glamorgan Building, CarDIFF SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Queries: HousleyW@Cardiff.ac.uk
Thursday, May 15th , 2008
Schedule
10.15 a.m. Welcome
Session One : 10.30 a.m. – 11.15 a.m.
Actors' and Analysts' Categories and the Politics of Sociological Research
Professor Harry Collins
11.15 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Q/A
Session Two : 11.30 a.m. – 12.15 p.m.
The Future of Morality
Professor Ralph Fevre
12.15 p.m. – 12.30 p.m. Q/A
12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. Break
Session Three: 1.30 p.m. – 2.15 p.m.
Subjectivity
Professor Valerie Walkerdine
2.15 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Q/A
Session Four: 2.30 p.m. – 3.15 p.m.
Time for Social Theory
Professor Barbara Adam
3.15 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. Q/A
3.35 p.m. CLOSE
Council Chamber, Glamorgan Building, CarDIFF SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Queries: HousleyW@Cardiff.ac.uk
Friday, 18 April 2008
Fears for 290 tinplate plant jobs
See report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7354189.stm
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Planum Newsletter - Special News - April 2008
Planum Newsletter - Special News - April 2008
Planum is the online magazine and international network dedicated to
territorial planning, urban development and architecture.
1. Journals, Conferences, Workshops and Exhibitions
2. Deadline reminder
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1. JOURNALS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOP and EXHIBITIONS
------------------------------------------------------
World Architecture Community
A Free Database And Forum Of World Architecture
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1051
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Urban_women - International listserve
International listserve
In English and French
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1029
------------------------------------------------------
The challenge of landscape in metropolitan areas
Papers journal
Revista Papers num 47
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1050
------------------------------------------------------
Passenger Terminal Expo 2008
“…best in the business!”
April 15 - 17, 2008
Amsterdam RAI The Netherlands
Netherlands
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=984
------------------------------------------------------
Cultural Development:An Opportunity for territorial planning?
International conference
April 17-18, 2008
University of Nîmes, France
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1030
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Il nuovo piano
XXVI Congresso INU
Aprile 17-19, 2008
Ancona, Italy
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1012
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Città Territorio Festival
Vivere la città, abitare il territorio
Aprile 17- 20, 2008
Ferrara, Italy
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1060
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Post-it cities - Barcelona
Exhibition
March 13, to May 25 ,2008
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1028
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Planning for the Carbon Neutral World: Challenges for Cities and Regions
Transportation Workshop
May 15 -18, 2008
Salzburg at Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1016
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From Research to Industry and Markets
16th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
June 02-06, 2008
Feria Valencia, Spain
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=952
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ZukunftsWerkStadt Leinefelde
International Study Visit
June 8- 13, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1022
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Culture meets economy
International Conference on Culture and Economy
June 11-12, 2008
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1037
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Lasa 2009
XXVIII International Congress
June 11 – 14, 2009
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1049
------------------------------------------------------
Liveable and Vibrant Cities
World Cities Summit
June 23-25, 2008
Singapore, Asia
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1054
------------------------------------------------------
Regenerating Urban Core
Urban Planning and Design Summer School 2008
August 11-23, 2008
in Helsinky, Turku and Jyvaskyla
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1004
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Public Participation and Corporate Social Responsibility: from why to how
International Conference - IAP2
August 27-29, 2008
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1036
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Building - Designing - Thinking - International Alvar Aalto Meeting in
Finland
3rd International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture
August 30-31, 2008
Jyväskylä, Finland
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=987
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Urban Water Conference 2008
International Conference on
Water and Urban Development Paradigms
September 15-19, 2008
Leuven, Belgium
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=973
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The Sustainable City 2008 - Greece
Fifth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability
September 24-26, 2008
Skiathos, Greece
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1011
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2. DEADLINE REMINDER
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Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008
Myths and Potentials of Media Architecture and Urban Screens
Call for media-creatives
April 15, 2008: Deadline for submission
October / November 2008
Berlin, Germany
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1048
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White House Redux - International Competition
Call for Ideas
April 20, 2008: Registration and submissions deadline
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1056
------------------------------------------------------
Expressive and Instrumental Values in Economic and Sociological Perspectives
Arts, Culture and Public Sphere
November 4-8 ,2008
Venice, Italy
April 28, 2008: Deadline for receipt of abstracts
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1023
------------------------------------------------------
Design Cinema 2008
3rd International Design and Cinema Conference ‘Design-en-scène’
November 19-22, 2008
Istanbul, Turkey
April 30, 2008: Notification of accepted abstracts
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1057
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Planning Regeneration and the Environment Track
Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference
7-10 July 2008
Dundee University, UK
Submission of proposals deadline: May 1, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1063
-----------------------------------------------------
The postsecular city
Call for papers
December 17-20, 2008
Tokyo, Japan
May 15, 2008: Abstract deadline
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1046
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Nordic Urban and Housing Research Seminar
Towards sustainability in urban transformation, governance cultures
and housing policies
September 21-23, 2008
Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland
Submit the abstract of your seminar paper by May 20, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1058
------------------------------------------------------
World Habitat Awards 2008
Competition
June 1, 2008: Deadline for submission
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1044
------------------------------------------------------
The Town Planning Review centenary
Call for papers
September 30, 2008: Deadline for submission
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1045
Planum is the online magazine and international network dedicated to
territorial planning, urban development and architecture.
1. Journals, Conferences, Workshops and Exhibitions
2. Deadline reminder
------------------------------------------------------
1. JOURNALS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOP and EXHIBITIONS
------------------------------------------------------
World Architecture Community
A Free Database And Forum Of World Architecture
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1051
------------------------------------------------------
Urban_women - International listserve
International listserve
In English and French
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1029
------------------------------------------------------
The challenge of landscape in metropolitan areas
Papers journal
Revista Papers num 47
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1050
------------------------------------------------------
Passenger Terminal Expo 2008
“…best in the business!”
April 15 - 17, 2008
Amsterdam RAI The Netherlands
Netherlands
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=984
------------------------------------------------------
Cultural Development:An Opportunity for territorial planning?
International conference
April 17-18, 2008
University of Nîmes, France
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1030
------------------------------------------------------
Il nuovo piano
XXVI Congresso INU
Aprile 17-19, 2008
Ancona, Italy
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1012
------------------------------------------------------
Città Territorio Festival
Vivere la città, abitare il territorio
Aprile 17- 20, 2008
Ferrara, Italy
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1060
------------------------------------------------------
Post-it cities - Barcelona
Exhibition
March 13, to May 25 ,2008
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1028
------------------------------------------------------
Planning for the Carbon Neutral World: Challenges for Cities and Regions
Transportation Workshop
May 15 -18, 2008
Salzburg at Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1016
------------------------------------------------------
From Research to Industry and Markets
16th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
June 02-06, 2008
Feria Valencia, Spain
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=952
------------------------------------------------------
ZukunftsWerkStadt Leinefelde
International Study Visit
June 8- 13, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1022
------------------------------------------------------
Culture meets economy
International Conference on Culture and Economy
June 11-12, 2008
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1037
------------------------------------------------------
Lasa 2009
XXVIII International Congress
June 11 – 14, 2009
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1049
------------------------------------------------------
Liveable and Vibrant Cities
World Cities Summit
June 23-25, 2008
Singapore, Asia
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1054
------------------------------------------------------
Regenerating Urban Core
Urban Planning and Design Summer School 2008
August 11-23, 2008
in Helsinky, Turku and Jyvaskyla
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1004
------------------------------------------------------
Public Participation and Corporate Social Responsibility: from why to how
International Conference - IAP2
August 27-29, 2008
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1036
------------------------------------------------------
Building - Designing - Thinking - International Alvar Aalto Meeting in
Finland
3rd International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture
August 30-31, 2008
Jyväskylä, Finland
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=987
------------------------------------------------------
Urban Water Conference 2008
International Conference on
Water and Urban Development Paradigms
September 15-19, 2008
Leuven, Belgium
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=973
------------------------------------------------------
The Sustainable City 2008 - Greece
Fifth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability
September 24-26, 2008
Skiathos, Greece
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1011
------------------------------------------------------
2. DEADLINE REMINDER
------------------------------------------------------
Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008
Myths and Potentials of Media Architecture and Urban Screens
Call for media-creatives
April 15, 2008: Deadline for submission
October / November 2008
Berlin, Germany
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1048
------------------------------------------------------
White House Redux - International Competition
Call for Ideas
April 20, 2008: Registration and submissions deadline
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1056
------------------------------------------------------
Expressive and Instrumental Values in Economic and Sociological Perspectives
Arts, Culture and Public Sphere
November 4-8 ,2008
Venice, Italy
April 28, 2008: Deadline for receipt of abstracts
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1023
------------------------------------------------------
Design Cinema 2008
3rd International Design and Cinema Conference ‘Design-en-scène’
November 19-22, 2008
Istanbul, Turkey
April 30, 2008: Notification of accepted abstracts
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1057
------------------------------------------------------
Planning Regeneration and the Environment Track
Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference
7-10 July 2008
Dundee University, UK
Submission of proposals deadline: May 1, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1063
-----------------------------------------------------
The postsecular city
Call for papers
December 17-20, 2008
Tokyo, Japan
May 15, 2008: Abstract deadline
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1046
------------------------------------------------------
Nordic Urban and Housing Research Seminar
Towards sustainability in urban transformation, governance cultures
and housing policies
September 21-23, 2008
Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland
Submit the abstract of your seminar paper by May 20, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1058
------------------------------------------------------
World Habitat Awards 2008
Competition
June 1, 2008: Deadline for submission
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1044
------------------------------------------------------
The Town Planning Review centenary
Call for papers
September 30, 2008: Deadline for submission
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1045
Methods Workshop: Researching Social Relations in Urban Environments
Methods Workshop: Researching Social Relations in Urban Environments
Date: 8 May 2008, 3-5pm
Location: University of Manchester
Organised by: Real Life Methods, part of the National Centre for Research
Methods
Registration is now open for this seminar looking at how different
methodological approaches to the study of social relations in urban
environments affect research design, practice and findings.
Three speakers each give a brief introduction to the methodological
approaches they have used to research this topic and the issues and
challenges raised as a result. Followed by discussion from all
participants.
Speakers:
* Mags Adams (University of Salford)
'Sensory Urbanism: sensewalking as a methodological device'
* Roger Burrows (University of York)
'Life in Coded Spaces?'
* Andrew Clark (Real Life Methods, University of Leeds)
'Understanding community through mobile interviews and participatory
mapping'
Places are going quickly, so early booking is advised.
More details and registration:
http://www.reallifemethods.ac.uk/events/workshops/urban/
------------------------------------------------------------
Real Life Methods
Sociology, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13
9PL
Web: www.reallifemethods.ac.uk
Phone: 0161 275 0265
Email: reallifemethods@manchester.ac.uk
Date: 8 May 2008, 3-5pm
Location: University of Manchester
Organised by: Real Life Methods, part of the National Centre for Research
Methods
Registration is now open for this seminar looking at how different
methodological approaches to the study of social relations in urban
environments affect research design, practice and findings.
Three speakers each give a brief introduction to the methodological
approaches they have used to research this topic and the issues and
challenges raised as a result. Followed by discussion from all
participants.
Speakers:
* Mags Adams (University of Salford)
'Sensory Urbanism: sensewalking as a methodological device'
* Roger Burrows (University of York)
'Life in Coded Spaces?'
* Andrew Clark (Real Life Methods, University of Leeds)
'Understanding community through mobile interviews and participatory
mapping'
Places are going quickly, so early booking is advised.
More details and registration:
http://www.reallifemethods.ac.uk/events/workshops/urban/
------------------------------------------------------------
Real Life Methods
Sociology, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13
9PL
Web: www.reallifemethods.ac.uk
Phone: 0161 275 0265
Email: reallifemethods@manchester.ac.uk
Sustainable ‘sites of association’? Conflict and consensus in a learning space
Sustainable ‘sites of association’? Conflict and consensus in a learning space
As part of the research seminar series in Planning and Sustainability,
Lorraine Allibone and Dr Andy King from the School of Social Science of
Kingston University London will present “Sustainable ‘sites of
association’? Conflict and consensus in a learning space”.
The seminar will take place on the 21 April at 5 pm in the C-SCAIPE
Debating Chamber.
Coffee will be available on arrival from 5pm.
Venue
C-SCAIPE
Kingston University School of Surveying
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE
For further details:
e-mail: Dr Silvia Gullino s.gullino@kingston.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)208 547 7047
As part of the research seminar series in Planning and Sustainability,
Lorraine Allibone and Dr Andy King from the School of Social Science of
Kingston University London will present “Sustainable ‘sites of
association’? Conflict and consensus in a learning space”.
The seminar will take place on the 21 April at 5 pm in the C-SCAIPE
Debating Chamber.
Coffee will be available on arrival from 5pm.
Venue
C-SCAIPE
Kingston University School of Surveying
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE
For further details:
e-mail: Dr Silvia Gullino s.gullino@kingston.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)208 547 7047
Friday, 11 April 2008
Conference in Liverpool - July 2008
details (see link below) of a conference giving a critical look at the
impacts of regeneration etc in the 'Capital of Culture' 2-4 July 08
(The deadline for paper submissions has been extended to the beginning of May)
http://www.liv.ac.uk/ssp/conference/Liverpool_Con_Flyer_2.pdf
impacts of regeneration etc in the 'Capital of Culture' 2-4 July 08
(The deadline for paper submissions has been extended to the beginning of May)
http://www.liv.ac.uk/ssp/conference/Liverpool_Con_Flyer_2.pdf
Thursday, 10 April 2008
New titles from the Policy Press
'Promoting children's wellbeing' is the second title in our exciting new
series, Working Together for Children. Edited by Janet Collins and Pam
Foley, this attractive and accessible textbook analyses and examines the
policies, services and practice skills needed for collaborative, effective
and equitable work with children. For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10090&products_id=1487
Don't forget that the first title in the series, 'Connecting with children'
is also available. The final title in the series 'Changing children's
services' is due out in July.
'Rethinking professional governance', edited by Ellen Kuhlmann and
Mike Saks, opens up new perspectives in health policy debate, examining the
emerging international trends in the governance of health professions and
the significance of national contexts for the changing health workforce.
Please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10054&products_id=1346
For more information on all of our titles, along with news and special
offers, please visit: https://www.policypress.org.uk
Policy Press titles can also be ordered from:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4YN
Te: +44 (0)1235 465500
Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk
P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.
series, Working Together for Children. Edited by Janet Collins and Pam
Foley, this attractive and accessible textbook analyses and examines the
policies, services and practice skills needed for collaborative, effective
and equitable work with children. For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10090&products_id=1487
Don't forget that the first title in the series, 'Connecting with children'
is also available. The final title in the series 'Changing children's
services' is due out in July.
'Rethinking professional governance', edited by Ellen Kuhlmann and
Mike Saks, opens up new perspectives in health policy debate, examining the
emerging international trends in the governance of health professions and
the significance of national contexts for the changing health workforce.
Please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10054&products_id=1346
For more information on all of our titles, along with news and special
offers, please visit: https://www.policypress.org.uk
Policy Press titles can also be ordered from:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4YN
Te: +44 (0)1235 465500
Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk
P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
“Can > Planning Deliver? Planning for health and social infrastructure” - Free Seminar
> NHS London Healthy Urban Development Unit (HUDU) is holding a free
> all day event for health and planning professionals entitled “Can
> Planning Deliver? Planning for health and social infrastructure”
> on Wednesday 14 May 2008 in Central London.
>
>
>
> There are less than 100 places available, so you are advised to
> book your place as soon as possible.
See:
http://www.healthyurbandevelopment.nhs.uk/
> all day event for health and planning professionals entitled “Can
> Planning Deliver? Planning for health and social infrastructure”
> on Wednesday 14 May 2008 in Central London.
>
>
>
> There are less than 100 places available, so you are advised to
> book your place as soon as possible.
See:
http://www.healthyurbandevelopment.nhs.uk/
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Urban MultipliCITIES: Conference, London, 6-7 November 2008, RGS-IBG UGRG
Urban MultipliCITIES
A two-day conference and open discussion
organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group
Preliminary Call for Contributions
Dates: 6-7 November 2008
Location: Queen Mary University of London
Building on two earlier conferences, Paradigmatic Cities and Approaching the
City, this year's UGRG conference aims to examine the multiplicities of 'the
urban'. Rather than the unitary object implied by the terms 'the urban' or
'the city', multiple urbanisms are currently being called forth by research
that, for instance: challenges conventional representations and hierarchies
of cities; 'parochialises' cities of 'the North'; develops research into
'ordinary cities'; uncovers/explores diverse ways of inhabiting urban space;
re-examines urban histories; or employs inventive methods of investigating
urban experiences.
Urban MultipliCITIES aims to bring some of these proliferating fields into
creative contact, and we are seeking contributions from a wide range of
urban research that reflect the rich variety of work being undertaken in the
field. Topics and methodologies might include (but are in no way restricted
to):
§ gender and sexuality
§ methods: e.g. visual, aural, tactile, oral, performative,
participatory.
§ non-'Western' urban experiences
§ poetics and politics of urban imaginaries
§ post-coloniality
§ regeneration projects and everyday life
§ socio-technical materialities
§ suburban studies
§ practice, activism and politics
Over two days, the conference will take the form of keynote presentations,
shorter papers, and include a poster session by postgraduate students. We
hope to leave plenty of time for discussion, stimulated by papers that
engage with Urban Multiplicities - in research, methods or practice. Papers
are welcomed from researchers (including PhDs) at any stage of their
careers, but the Poster Session is specifically designed for postgraduates.
If you would like to contribute a PAPER or a POSTER, contact
Margo Huxley: M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk
or
Richard Smith: R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk
Deadline for 250 word Abstracts is Friday 19 September 2008
For more information about the Urban Geography Research Group, visit:
www.urban-geography.org.uk
________________________________
A two-day conference and open discussion
organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group
Preliminary Call for Contributions
Dates: 6-7 November 2008
Location: Queen Mary University of London
Building on two earlier conferences, Paradigmatic Cities and Approaching the
City, this year's UGRG conference aims to examine the multiplicities of 'the
urban'. Rather than the unitary object implied by the terms 'the urban' or
'the city', multiple urbanisms are currently being called forth by research
that, for instance: challenges conventional representations and hierarchies
of cities; 'parochialises' cities of 'the North'; develops research into
'ordinary cities'; uncovers/explores diverse ways of inhabiting urban space;
re-examines urban histories; or employs inventive methods of investigating
urban experiences.
Urban MultipliCITIES aims to bring some of these proliferating fields into
creative contact, and we are seeking contributions from a wide range of
urban research that reflect the rich variety of work being undertaken in the
field. Topics and methodologies might include (but are in no way restricted
to):
§ gender and sexuality
§ methods: e.g. visual, aural, tactile, oral, performative,
participatory.
§ non-'Western' urban experiences
§ poetics and politics of urban imaginaries
§ post-coloniality
§ regeneration projects and everyday life
§ socio-technical materialities
§ suburban studies
§ practice, activism and politics
Over two days, the conference will take the form of keynote presentations,
shorter papers, and include a poster session by postgraduate students. We
hope to leave plenty of time for discussion, stimulated by papers that
engage with Urban Multiplicities - in research, methods or practice. Papers
are welcomed from researchers (including PhDs) at any stage of their
careers, but the Poster Session is specifically designed for postgraduates.
If you would like to contribute a PAPER or a POSTER, contact
Margo Huxley: M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk
or
Richard Smith: R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk
Deadline for 250 word Abstracts is Friday 19 September 2008
For more information about the Urban Geography Research Group, visit:
www.urban-geography.org.uk
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Researching Social Relations in Urban Environments
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Methods workshop: Researching Social Relations in Urban Environments
Date: 8 May 2008, 3-5pm
Location: University of Manchester
This is the last in our programme of methods workshops, which explore how different methodologies
affect research design, process and outputs. This time, our three speakers will each give a brief
introduction to the approach they have taken to researching social relations in urban environments.
This will be followed by discussion from all participants. Speakers are:
Mags Adams (University of Salford) 'Sensory Urbanism: sensewalking as a methodological device'
Roger Burrows (University of York) 'Life in Coded Spaces?'
Andrew Clark (Real Life Methods, University of Leeds) 'Understanding community through mobile
interviews and participatory mapping'
There is no charge for the workshop. Participants must register in advance. See our website for
full details:
http://www.reallifemethods.ac.uk/events/workshops/urban/
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email with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field, or contact us (details below).
Real Life Methods, Sociology, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 275 0261
Email: victoria.higham@manchester.ac.uk
Methods workshop: Researching Social Relations in Urban Environments
Date: 8 May 2008, 3-5pm
Location: University of Manchester
This is the last in our programme of methods workshops, which explore how different methodologies
affect research design, process and outputs. This time, our three speakers will each give a brief
introduction to the approach they have taken to researching social relations in urban environments.
This will be followed by discussion from all participants. Speakers are:
Mags Adams (University of Salford) 'Sensory Urbanism: sensewalking as a methodological device'
Roger Burrows (University of York) 'Life in Coded Spaces?'
Andrew Clark (Real Life Methods, University of Leeds) 'Understanding community through mobile
interviews and participatory mapping'
There is no charge for the workshop. Participants must register in advance. See our website for
full details:
http://www.reallifemethods.ac.uk/events/workshops/urban/
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For more information about Real Life Methods, see our website: www.reallifemethods.ac.uk
We use this list to circulate news of our events and activities. To unsubscribe, just reply to this
email with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field, or contact us (details below).
Real Life Methods, Sociology, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 275 0261
Email: victoria.higham@manchester.ac.uk
New Issue of Policy and Politics
The current issue of Policy & Politics (Volume 36, Number 2) is now
available. The contents are listed below.
Don't forget that we are currently offering a free online trial during
which time you can access all online content, as available to subscribers.
To sign up, go to:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/pap
In the current issue (Volume 36, Number 2):
Instituting the 'third sector' as a governable terrain: partnership,
procurement and performance in the UK
Emma Carmel, Jenny Harlock
Professional self-regulation in a changing architecture of governance:
comparing health policy in the UK and Germany
Ellen Kuhlmann, Judith Allsop
The role of the private sector in publicly funded schooling in England:
finance, delivery and decision making
Anne West, Peter Currie
Intersectoral partnerships, the knowledge economy and intangible assets
Leslie Boydell, Paul Hoggett, Jorun Rugkåsa, Anne-Marie Cummins
Support for active citizenship and public service performance: an empirical
analysis of English local authorities
Rhys Andrews, Richard Cowell, James Downe
The role of civil society in immigration policy making in Italy: changing
patterns of conflictual cooperation
Emanuela Bozzini, Stefano Fella
Necessary conditions for the effective transposition of EU legislation
Michael Kaeding
Offenders in the post-industrial labour market: from the underclass to the
undercaste?
Del Roy Fletcher
New Deal for Carers or unfair deal: what is in it for informal carers of
stroke survivors?
Nan Greenwood, Ann Mackenzie, Ruth Harris
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available. The contents are listed below.
Don't forget that we are currently offering a free online trial during
which time you can access all online content, as available to subscribers.
To sign up, go to:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/pap
In the current issue (Volume 36, Number 2):
Instituting the 'third sector' as a governable terrain: partnership,
procurement and performance in the UK
Emma Carmel, Jenny Harlock
Professional self-regulation in a changing architecture of governance:
comparing health policy in the UK and Germany
Ellen Kuhlmann, Judith Allsop
The role of the private sector in publicly funded schooling in England:
finance, delivery and decision making
Anne West, Peter Currie
Intersectoral partnerships, the knowledge economy and intangible assets
Leslie Boydell, Paul Hoggett, Jorun Rugkåsa, Anne-Marie Cummins
Support for active citizenship and public service performance: an empirical
analysis of English local authorities
Rhys Andrews, Richard Cowell, James Downe
The role of civil society in immigration policy making in Italy: changing
patterns of conflictual cooperation
Emanuela Bozzini, Stefano Fella
Necessary conditions for the effective transposition of EU legislation
Michael Kaeding
Offenders in the post-industrial labour market: from the underclass to the
undercaste?
Del Roy Fletcher
New Deal for Carers or unfair deal: what is in it for informal carers of
stroke survivors?
Nan Greenwood, Ann Mackenzie, Ruth Harris
For more information and to subscribe, please go to
http://www.policypress.org.uk/journals/policy_politics/
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Conference - Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance, Liverpool, 2-4 July 2008
British-Irish Section of the European Group
for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance
2-4 July, 2008, Liverpool
Hosted by the University of Liverpool & Liverpool John Moores University
Call for Papers
2008 marks Liverpool's celebration of its status as European Capital of Culture. In preparation, Liverpool has been undergoing a physical and cultural regeneration that has in many ways transformed the city as private capital and expertise has poured in. The transformation of the local state into a growth machine has been accompanied by shifts in crime control and community safety, spatial regulation, forms of policing and discourses of urban belonging.
Like in other cities, there are significant undersides to urban regeneration and the culture it seeks to impose - undersides which rarely figure in official and academic discourse. Much of Liverpool and its surrounding areas remain scarred by poverty, under-employment, and racism. At the same time, whilst the marginalised are subjected to criminalisation, the social and criminal justice supports for the victims of the crimes and harms of the powerful either remain virtually non-existent or under threat. We wish to critically explore the extent and direction of change in our cities and how these are re-framing practices of power, justice and the right to the city.
Please submit abstracts of 100-200 words by Thursday May 1st 2008 to any of the following, These people can also be contacted for further details:
Roy Coleman roy.coleman@ liverpool.ac.uk
Lynn Hancock l.hancock@liverpool.ac.uk
Joe Sim j.sim@ljmu.ac.uk
Steve Tombs s.p.tombs@ljmu.ac.uk
Joe Yates j.yates1@ljmu.ac.uk
Dave Whyte david.whyte@liverpool.ac.uk
Booking & information: http://www.liv.ac.uk/ssp/news_and_events.htm
for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance
2-4 July, 2008, Liverpool
Hosted by the University of Liverpool & Liverpool John Moores University
Call for Papers
2008 marks Liverpool's celebration of its status as European Capital of Culture. In preparation, Liverpool has been undergoing a physical and cultural regeneration that has in many ways transformed the city as private capital and expertise has poured in. The transformation of the local state into a growth machine has been accompanied by shifts in crime control and community safety, spatial regulation, forms of policing and discourses of urban belonging.
Like in other cities, there are significant undersides to urban regeneration and the culture it seeks to impose - undersides which rarely figure in official and academic discourse. Much of Liverpool and its surrounding areas remain scarred by poverty, under-employment, and racism. At the same time, whilst the marginalised are subjected to criminalisation, the social and criminal justice supports for the victims of the crimes and harms of the powerful either remain virtually non-existent or under threat. We wish to critically explore the extent and direction of change in our cities and how these are re-framing practices of power, justice and the right to the city.
Please submit abstracts of 100-200 words by Thursday May 1st 2008 to any of the following, These people can also be contacted for further details:
Roy Coleman roy.coleman@ liverpool.ac.uk
Lynn Hancock l.hancock@liverpool.ac.uk
Joe Sim j.sim@ljmu.ac.uk
Steve Tombs s.p.tombs@ljmu.ac.uk
Joe Yates j.yates1@ljmu.ac.uk
Dave Whyte david.whyte@liverpool.ac.uk
Booking & information: http://www.liv.ac.uk/ssp/news_and_events.htm
Monday, 7 April 2008
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
DIME International Workshop: Reconsidering the Regional Knowledge Economy
DIME International Workshop
Reconsidering the Regional Knowledge Economy:
Theoretical, Empirical and Policy Insights from Diverse Research Approaches
Centre for Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise (KITE), Newcastle University, City Wall, City Gate, St James Boulevard, Newcastle, UK 4th - 5th September 2008
It is generally acknowledged that regional economic success in Europe is dependent on an orientation towards a knowledge-based economy, typified either by high value added, creative and science-based industry, or a focus on advanced business services. For those regions lacking such advantages the emphasis of policy has been placed on developing new clusters of knowledge-based industries through a variety of measures including networking activities, university-based initiatives and support for new start-ups. A key problem though has been the absence of a clear understanding of what would constitute progress towards a knowledge-based economy, never mind what should be the most appropriate policies.
One particular problem is the lack of consensus between quantitative and qualitative researchers on how to assess the state of the knowledge base and on the nature of the policy objectives. Quantitative researchers have measures for particular investments in knowledge creating activity, principally in the form of R&D, as well as labour market indicators and some crude measures of outputs. Qualitative researchers however point out that such data is usually constrained by classificatory problems and fails to capture new kinds of activities and is also difficult to assess by cluster. Qualitative research examines the processes behind innovation and learning, but finds it difficult to quantify knowledge. In addition to this quantitative/qualitative dichotomy there is a tendency for research to focus on either macro or micro economic issues.
Through the inclusion of varieties of approaches to exploring the regional knowledge economy this seminar will offer opportunities to draw comparisons between the findings of various research strategies. In so doing, the seminar will stimulate a dialogue within which new developments may be initiated to bridge the various research communities and thereby offer new insights into the role of knowledge in regional economic development and subsequent policy implications.
Confirmed speakers include: Allen Scott, UCLA, USA, Bjorn Asheim, Lund University, Sweden, Jeremy Howells, University of Manchester, UK, Marleen Huysman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Patrick Cohendet, University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, France, and HEC Montréal, Canada.
Call For Papers:
Papers adopting qualitative, quantitative and macro or micro economic approaches to understanding aspects of the regional knowledge economy are welcome. As are those providing conceptual developments and critical appraisals of various dimensions of the regional knowledge economy. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Ø Comparing and contrasting views on the nature of the regional knowledge economy.
Ø Identifying and examining the mechanisms and processes through which knowledge contributes to regional economic development.
Ø The knowledge dynamics of local, national and international organisations and institutions and their contribution to the regional knowledge base.
Ø Assessing efforts to link local and global knowledge communities.
Ø Quantitative and qualitative methods to map and track the knowledge economy.
Ø Identifying and enacting effective policies to sustain and expand the regional knowledge economy.
Ø Evaluating existing policy efforts to promote the regional knowledge economy, including: cluster and networking activities, innovation systems development; university-based initiatives; the generation and retention of knowledge workers; support for new start-ups and so on.
Submissions:
Please send extended abstracts (max. 1,000 words) and contact details to Joanne.Roberts@ncl.ac.uk and specify whether you are eligible for funding by DIME.
Deadlines:
Abstract submission: March 31st 2008
Paper acceptance: April 30th 2008
Submission of full paper: August 18th 2008
Travel, accommodation and conference cost:
Travel and accommodation costs of the participants will be covered according to standard DIME arrangements for one author per paper from DIME-partners and for invited speakers.
Other participants, in addition to arrange their own travel and accommodation, will be subject to conference fees as follows:
Standard rate: £ 140
Student rate: £ 40
The conference fee provides access to all conference presentations at the venue and all refreshments served at the venue as well as the conference dinner on 4th September 2008
There will also be between 5-10 fully funded (including travel and accommodation) places available for PhD students.
Organisers:
Dr Joanne Roberts
Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle University, Armstrong Building, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 7RU. UK. Tel: +44 (0) 191 222 6232
Email: Joanne.Roberts@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/kite/staff/profile/joanne.roberts
Prof David Charles
Director of KITE
City Wall, City Gate, St James Boulevard, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 4JH, UK. Tel +44 (0) 191 222 8019 Email d.r.charles@ncl.ac.uk http://www.ncl.ac.uk/kite/staff/profile/d.r.charles
Reconsidering the Regional Knowledge Economy:
Theoretical, Empirical and Policy Insights from Diverse Research Approaches
Centre for Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise (KITE), Newcastle University, City Wall, City Gate, St James Boulevard, Newcastle, UK 4th - 5th September 2008
It is generally acknowledged that regional economic success in Europe is dependent on an orientation towards a knowledge-based economy, typified either by high value added, creative and science-based industry, or a focus on advanced business services. For those regions lacking such advantages the emphasis of policy has been placed on developing new clusters of knowledge-based industries through a variety of measures including networking activities, university-based initiatives and support for new start-ups. A key problem though has been the absence of a clear understanding of what would constitute progress towards a knowledge-based economy, never mind what should be the most appropriate policies.
One particular problem is the lack of consensus between quantitative and qualitative researchers on how to assess the state of the knowledge base and on the nature of the policy objectives. Quantitative researchers have measures for particular investments in knowledge creating activity, principally in the form of R&D, as well as labour market indicators and some crude measures of outputs. Qualitative researchers however point out that such data is usually constrained by classificatory problems and fails to capture new kinds of activities and is also difficult to assess by cluster. Qualitative research examines the processes behind innovation and learning, but finds it difficult to quantify knowledge. In addition to this quantitative/qualitative dichotomy there is a tendency for research to focus on either macro or micro economic issues.
Through the inclusion of varieties of approaches to exploring the regional knowledge economy this seminar will offer opportunities to draw comparisons between the findings of various research strategies. In so doing, the seminar will stimulate a dialogue within which new developments may be initiated to bridge the various research communities and thereby offer new insights into the role of knowledge in regional economic development and subsequent policy implications.
Confirmed speakers include: Allen Scott, UCLA, USA, Bjorn Asheim, Lund University, Sweden, Jeremy Howells, University of Manchester, UK, Marleen Huysman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Patrick Cohendet, University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, France, and HEC Montréal, Canada.
Call For Papers:
Papers adopting qualitative, quantitative and macro or micro economic approaches to understanding aspects of the regional knowledge economy are welcome. As are those providing conceptual developments and critical appraisals of various dimensions of the regional knowledge economy. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Ø Comparing and contrasting views on the nature of the regional knowledge economy.
Ø Identifying and examining the mechanisms and processes through which knowledge contributes to regional economic development.
Ø The knowledge dynamics of local, national and international organisations and institutions and their contribution to the regional knowledge base.
Ø Assessing efforts to link local and global knowledge communities.
Ø Quantitative and qualitative methods to map and track the knowledge economy.
Ø Identifying and enacting effective policies to sustain and expand the regional knowledge economy.
Ø Evaluating existing policy efforts to promote the regional knowledge economy, including: cluster and networking activities, innovation systems development; university-based initiatives; the generation and retention of knowledge workers; support for new start-ups and so on.
Submissions:
Please send extended abstracts (max. 1,000 words) and contact details to Joanne.Roberts@ncl.ac.uk and specify whether you are eligible for funding by DIME.
Deadlines:
Abstract submission: March 31st 2008
Paper acceptance: April 30th 2008
Submission of full paper: August 18th 2008
Travel, accommodation and conference cost:
Travel and accommodation costs of the participants will be covered according to standard DIME arrangements for one author per paper from DIME-partners and for invited speakers.
Other participants, in addition to arrange their own travel and accommodation, will be subject to conference fees as follows:
Standard rate: £ 140
Student rate: £ 40
The conference fee provides access to all conference presentations at the venue and all refreshments served at the venue as well as the conference dinner on 4th September 2008
There will also be between 5-10 fully funded (including travel and accommodation) places available for PhD students.
Organisers:
Dr Joanne Roberts
Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle University, Armstrong Building, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 7RU. UK. Tel: +44 (0) 191 222 6232
Email: Joanne.Roberts@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/kite/staff/profile/joanne.roberts
Prof David Charles
Director of KITE
City Wall, City Gate, St James Boulevard, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 4JH, UK. Tel +44 (0) 191 222 8019 Email d.r.charles@ncl.ac.uk http://www.ncl.ac.uk/kite/staff/profile/d.r.charles
The Olympics site is eating into east London's green spaces
See the Guardian on-line...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/25/olympics2012.regeneration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/25/olympics2012.regeneration
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
BBC News Story: Blaenavon heritage centre opening
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7311516.stm
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
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.
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
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/
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.
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
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/15/BU7NVIT2O.DTL
Friday, 14 March 2008
Attractions & Events as Catalysts for Regeneration and Social Change - CFP
Christel DeHaan Tourism & Travel Research Institute, University of Nottingham
and
The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
‘Attractions and events as catalysts for regeneration and social change’
The University of Nottingham 24th and 25th September 2008
The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers who share interests in the role of tourist attractions and events in place making and shaping destinations. This research area is clearly relevant to professionals in the field including consultants, developers and local authorities.
The visitor economy is becoming increasingly competitive as destinations chase tourist spend. This is increasingly so in the context of ‘regional capitals’ which play a pivotal role in the regional economy, and ‘third cities’ whose visitor economy is often over-shadowed by the larger regional neighbours. Although tourism is seen as an integral part of regional development in these cities, they often compete for visitor expenditure in an environment of shrinking marketing investment and a volatile economic marketplace. Destinations have sought to differentiate their appeal on the basis of culture and heritage and/or events and festivals and seek to deliver 'a total visitor experience'.
We welcome papers for this conference which explore:
The role of regional capitals in driving the regional visitor economy
Delivering the total visitor experience
The potential for sustainable urban tourism through culture and heritage tourism
Creative uses of visitor attractions as focal points for regeneration programmes
Attractions and events and discourses of place shaping/making and the visitor economy
Major events and community cultural festivals as animators of place and tourist attractions
Planning dimensions of attractions and events development in urban and rural contexts
Community participation in attractions and events
Building sustainable partnerships and stakeholder relationships between tourism, culture and heritage in destinations
Managing attractions and events in sensitive sites
New and emerging technologies in attractions and events marketing and management
The role of festivals and cultural events in policies and programmes to promote community cohesion, crime reduction and anti-racism
Festivals, cultural events and the multi- (inter-) cultural city
Issues in conceiving museums and artistic venues as visitor attractions
Issues surrounding the 2012 London Olympics
The conference will form the academic stream of the European Union of Tourist Officers (EUTO) meeting and will provide the unique opportunity for researchers to network and share cutting edge ideas, innovation and critical thinking with the EUTO participants. The conference will include study visits as well as academic paper sessions. The study visits will focus on the role of culture in shaping destination image as Nottingham transforms into a cultural capital with ambitious projects such as Wollaton Hall, Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham & The New Art Exchange as well as a visit to Nottingham Castle and Sherwood Forest to see how ‘Living Legends’ can be used to stimulate the visitor economy.
Paper Submission
Abstracts should be up to 1,000 words, 12 point, 1½-line spaced and be formatted for printing on A4 paper. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday June 13th 2008 and successful authors will be notified by the end of June, 2008. A final paper of between 4 – 8,000 words is required by the end of August 2008 if authors wish to be included in the Conference Proceedings. All abstracts and papers should be submitted electronically to TTRI@nottingham.ac.uk
EUTO Annual Conference
Whilst TTRI and CTCC will organise this academic part of the conference, delegates are welcome to join the EUTO conference sessions and we will be jointly organising social functions to allow both groups to network.
The EUTO conference runs from 21-28 September 2008 and will be held in both Nottingham and London. It will comprise study visits, presentations and workshops. Themes to be explored include the role of attractions & events in destination development & the Olympics 2012. There will be an opportunity to visit the O2 Arena by boat and learn about riverside regeneration en route to Europe’s largest family entertainment centre and Olympic 2012 venue. Explore Bankside, the Pool of London and the South Bank by foot to see how iconic attractions such as London Eye, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tate Modern and Vinopolis have helped create this vibrant destination.
A detailed programme will be published on EUTO.org. For further information or to register interest, please email: president@EUTO.org
and
The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
‘Attractions and events as catalysts for regeneration and social change’
The University of Nottingham 24th and 25th September 2008
The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers who share interests in the role of tourist attractions and events in place making and shaping destinations. This research area is clearly relevant to professionals in the field including consultants, developers and local authorities.
The visitor economy is becoming increasingly competitive as destinations chase tourist spend. This is increasingly so in the context of ‘regional capitals’ which play a pivotal role in the regional economy, and ‘third cities’ whose visitor economy is often over-shadowed by the larger regional neighbours. Although tourism is seen as an integral part of regional development in these cities, they often compete for visitor expenditure in an environment of shrinking marketing investment and a volatile economic marketplace. Destinations have sought to differentiate their appeal on the basis of culture and heritage and/or events and festivals and seek to deliver 'a total visitor experience'.
We welcome papers for this conference which explore:
The role of regional capitals in driving the regional visitor economy
Delivering the total visitor experience
The potential for sustainable urban tourism through culture and heritage tourism
Creative uses of visitor attractions as focal points for regeneration programmes
Attractions and events and discourses of place shaping/making and the visitor economy
Major events and community cultural festivals as animators of place and tourist attractions
Planning dimensions of attractions and events development in urban and rural contexts
Community participation in attractions and events
Building sustainable partnerships and stakeholder relationships between tourism, culture and heritage in destinations
Managing attractions and events in sensitive sites
New and emerging technologies in attractions and events marketing and management
The role of festivals and cultural events in policies and programmes to promote community cohesion, crime reduction and anti-racism
Festivals, cultural events and the multi- (inter-) cultural city
Issues in conceiving museums and artistic venues as visitor attractions
Issues surrounding the 2012 London Olympics
The conference will form the academic stream of the European Union of Tourist Officers (EUTO) meeting and will provide the unique opportunity for researchers to network and share cutting edge ideas, innovation and critical thinking with the EUTO participants. The conference will include study visits as well as academic paper sessions. The study visits will focus on the role of culture in shaping destination image as Nottingham transforms into a cultural capital with ambitious projects such as Wollaton Hall, Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham & The New Art Exchange as well as a visit to Nottingham Castle and Sherwood Forest to see how ‘Living Legends’ can be used to stimulate the visitor economy.
Paper Submission
Abstracts should be up to 1,000 words, 12 point, 1½-line spaced and be formatted for printing on A4 paper. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday June 13th 2008 and successful authors will be notified by the end of June, 2008. A final paper of between 4 – 8,000 words is required by the end of August 2008 if authors wish to be included in the Conference Proceedings. All abstracts and papers should be submitted electronically to TTRI@nottingham.ac.uk
EUTO Annual Conference
Whilst TTRI and CTCC will organise this academic part of the conference, delegates are welcome to join the EUTO conference sessions and we will be jointly organising social functions to allow both groups to network.
The EUTO conference runs from 21-28 September 2008 and will be held in both Nottingham and London. It will comprise study visits, presentations and workshops. Themes to be explored include the role of attractions & events in destination development & the Olympics 2012. There will be an opportunity to visit the O2 Arena by boat and learn about riverside regeneration en route to Europe’s largest family entertainment centre and Olympic 2012 venue. Explore Bankside, the Pool of London and the South Bank by foot to see how iconic attractions such as London Eye, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tate Modern and Vinopolis have helped create this vibrant destination.
A detailed programme will be published on EUTO.org. For further information or to register interest, please email: president@EUTO.org
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
JRF Findings: 'Neighbourhood identity: effects of time, location and social class'
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/housing/2188.asp
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Just published by JRF - Community empowerment in practice: lessons from Communities First
Just published on the JRF website:
Community empowerment in practice: lessons from Communities First
An examination of a community-based programme in Wales that aims to increase opportunities for community empowerment and potential influence over service providers.
Community empowerment in practice: lessons from Communities First
An examination of a community-based programme in Wales that aims to increase opportunities for community empowerment and potential influence over service providers.
'Life outside the blue fence': Next PNUK event
Dear PNUK members, as promised, we bring you our next PNUK event, in association with Games Monitor : ‘Life outside the blue fence’. This time, we’re visiting London and taking in an in-depth look at the effects of major projects like the Olympics on the lives of local people. In particular, the Friday meetings and workshops will focus very specifically on the planning processes that have underpinned the London Olympics thus far and we will be asked to give some feedback and guidance to local people attending on planning issues.
This is the first time we have tried such a collaborative and innovative event based on action for an especially important cause. The Steering Group hopes you will support the event by making time to participate.
The flier and registration form is attached for all the information you need. Please circulate this as widely as you can to your own networks, and advertise in your own organisations.
Best wishes
Dr Libby Porter
Lecturer in Spatial Planning
Department of Urban Studies
University of Glasgow
25 Bute Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RS
Phone: 0141 330 3664
Email: l.porter@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Interested in progressive planning? Check out Planners Network UK www.pnuk.org.uk
This is the first time we have tried such a collaborative and innovative event based on action for an especially important cause. The Steering Group hopes you will support the event by making time to participate.
The flier and registration form is attached for all the information you need. Please circulate this as widely as you can to your own networks, and advertise in your own organisations.
Best wishes
Dr Libby Porter
Lecturer in Spatial Planning
Department of Urban Studies
University of Glasgow
25 Bute Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RS
Phone: 0141 330 3664
Email: l.porter@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Interested in progressive planning? Check out Planners Network UK www.pnuk.org.uk
Person or place-based policies to tackle disadvantage? Not knowing what works
Just published on the JRF website:
Person or place-based policies to tackle disadvantage? Not knowing what works
This study reviews the effectiveness of policies introduced in Great Britain since 1997 to tackle employment, education and income disadvantage, focusing on policies that explicitly take account of people and places.
Person or place-based policies to tackle disadvantage? Not knowing what works
This study reviews the effectiveness of policies introduced in Great Britain since 1997 to tackle employment, education and income disadvantage, focusing on policies that explicitly take account of people and places.
Friday, 7 March 2008
New titles from Policy Press
Please see details of all new Policy Press titles below.
2008 Policy Press catalogue now available
*****************************************
The 2008 Policy Press catalogue is now available. If you haven't received
yours by post, please email jessica.hughes@bristol.ac.uk to request a copy.
New titles for March
********************
'DIY Community Action', by Liz Richardson, presents a lively challenge to
the existing thinking on community development, and proposes ways forward
for community building. It offers thought-provoking answers to these
questions, based on detailed real-life evidence from over 100 community
groups, each trying to combat neighbourhood problems. For more information
please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1478
'Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia', edited by Kari
Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg, examines the
meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare
states, historically and today, and raises the question whether the
hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of
gender equality and gender differentiation. For more information please go
to:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10086&products_id=1457
'Exploring concepts of child well-being' by Nick Axford, provides an
understanding of what child welfare is, explores how it can be measured and
sets out the implications for children's services in incorporating child
well-being into their work. Please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10090&products_id=881
For more information on all of our titles, along with news and special
offers, please visit: https://www.policypress.org.uk
Policy Press titles can also be ordered from:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4YN
Te: +44 (0)1235 465500
Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk
P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.
2008 Policy Press catalogue now available
*****************************************
The 2008 Policy Press catalogue is now available. If you haven't received
yours by post, please email jessica.hughes@bristol.ac.uk to request a copy.
New titles for March
********************
'DIY Community Action', by Liz Richardson, presents a lively challenge to
the existing thinking on community development, and proposes ways forward
for community building. It offers thought-provoking answers to these
questions, based on detailed real-life evidence from over 100 community
groups, each trying to combat neighbourhood problems. For more information
please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1478
'Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia', edited by Kari
Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg, examines the
meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare
states, historically and today, and raises the question whether the
hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of
gender equality and gender differentiation. For more information please go
to:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10086&products_id=1457
'Exploring concepts of child well-being' by Nick Axford, provides an
understanding of what child welfare is, explores how it can be measured and
sets out the implications for children's services in incorporating child
well-being into their work. Please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10090&products_id=881
For more information on all of our titles, along with news and special
offers, please visit: https://www.policypress.org.uk
Policy Press titles can also be ordered from:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4YN
Te: +44 (0)1235 465500
Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk
P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.
Vacancies in NCVO Research Team - Third Sector Foresight
Dear all
We are currently looking for two people to join the NCVO Research team as Third Sector Foresight Officers. The advert went into the Society Guardian yesterday:
"Explore the trends shaping the future of civil society, managing projects which focus on a range of specific subsectors. You'll communicate your findings through reports, short guides, events, and the Internet. You'll also develop tools, including training sessions and capacity building workshops, to increase understanding of social change.
With superb research skills, and a keen interest in social change, you're an excellent writer and communicator, and able to express complex information in an accessible way. You should also have excellent people skills, and have the confidence to manage others and speak in public."
The salary is £32,616-£34,276, closing date is Wednesday 26 March 2008 and interviews will be held on Thursday 10 April 2008.
You can download further information and an application pack from http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/about/vacancies/?id=8274, email mailto:recruitment@ncvo-vol.org.uk or call 020 7520 2537 (24 hour voicemail) quoting the ref: TSF24. To find out more about NCVO Third Sector Foresight, visit http://www.3s4.org.uk
Karl Wilding , Head of Research
NCVO, Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London, N1 9RL.
Tel (020) 7520 2478. Mobile: 0795 137 3511. Fax (020) 7713 6300
karl.wilding@ncvo-vol.org.uk
NCVO's research aims to support the development of effective policy and practice in the voluntary and community sector (VCS). Further information on our work can be found at: www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/research
NCVO - the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. Members of NCVO enjoy access to a range of benefits including information, networks, influence and a range of discounted products and services. To find out more please contact NCVO's membership team on 020 7520 2414, email membership@ncvo-vol.org.uk or visit our web site at www.ncvo-vol.org.uk Charity Registration
We are currently looking for two people to join the NCVO Research team as Third Sector Foresight Officers. The advert went into the Society Guardian yesterday:
"Explore the trends shaping the future of civil society, managing projects which focus on a range of specific subsectors. You'll communicate your findings through reports, short guides, events, and the Internet. You'll also develop tools, including training sessions and capacity building workshops, to increase understanding of social change.
With superb research skills, and a keen interest in social change, you're an excellent writer and communicator, and able to express complex information in an accessible way. You should also have excellent people skills, and have the confidence to manage others and speak in public."
The salary is £32,616-£34,276, closing date is Wednesday 26 March 2008 and interviews will be held on Thursday 10 April 2008.
You can download further information and an application pack from http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/about/vacancies/?id=8274, email mailto:recruitment@ncvo-vol.org.uk or call 020 7520 2537 (24 hour voicemail) quoting the ref: TSF24. To find out more about NCVO Third Sector Foresight, visit http://www.3s4.org.uk
Karl Wilding
NCVO, Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London, N1 9RL.
Tel (020) 7520 2478. Mobile: 0795 137 3511. Fax (020) 7713 6300
karl.wilding@ncvo-vol.org.uk
NCVO's research aims to support the development of effective policy and practice in the voluntary and community sector (VCS). Further information on our work can be found at: www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/research
NCVO - the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. Members of NCVO enjoy access to a range of benefits including information, networks, influence and a range of discounted products and services. To find out more please contact NCVO's membership team on 020 7520 2414, email membership@ncvo-vol.org.uk or visit our web site at www.ncvo-vol.org.uk
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
NEW BOOK: So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool
Liverpool University Press is proud to announce the eagerly awaited publication of
So Spirited a Town
Visions and Versions of Liverpool
Nicholas Murray
“Murray's extremely entertaining book doesn't forget the humour of the place. He skilfully weaves memories of his own Irish family and Catholic childhood into a witty and sensitive history.” William Palmer, The Independent
In this highly personal encounter with his native city Nicholas Murray blends literary descriptions of Liverpool across the centuries with his own memories of a 1960s Liverpool childhood to create an original and nuanced portrait of the character of a remarkable city. The end result is a fascinating book about how Liverpool has been seen by others but it is also a personal and sometimes moving record of growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s, exploring in an often light-hearted way what it means to be ‘Scouse’, never forgetting that De Quincey’s “many-languaged town” is a cosmopolitan, multi-racial seaport with an often tough history of poverty, industrial strife, migration, but, above all, humour.
Nicholas Murray is a freelance author based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool in 1952 he is the author of several literary biographies (Bruce Chatwin [Seren Books], World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell [St Martin’s Press], Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual [Abacus], and Kafka [Little Brown]), two collections of poems, and two novels. He is a regular contributor of poems, essays and reviews to newspapers and literary magazines such as The Independent, The Guardian, The New Statesman, London Magazine, TLS, Thumbscrew, Metre, Poetry, Areté and many others. He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.
For further information or to order this book please click link below
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3797
LUP books are distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. For further information or to order this book please click link below
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/278139.ctl
SIMON BELL
SALES & MARKETING MANAGER, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS
4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZU, UK
Tel. +44-[0]151-794-2234, Fax +44-[0]151-794.2235
E: sbell@liv.ac.uk W: www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk
So Spirited a Town
Visions and Versions of Liverpool
Nicholas Murray
“Murray's extremely entertaining book doesn't forget the humour of the place. He skilfully weaves memories of his own Irish family and Catholic childhood into a witty and sensitive history.” William Palmer, The Independent
In this highly personal encounter with his native city Nicholas Murray blends literary descriptions of Liverpool across the centuries with his own memories of a 1960s Liverpool childhood to create an original and nuanced portrait of the character of a remarkable city. The end result is a fascinating book about how Liverpool has been seen by others but it is also a personal and sometimes moving record of growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s, exploring in an often light-hearted way what it means to be ‘Scouse’, never forgetting that De Quincey’s “many-languaged town” is a cosmopolitan, multi-racial seaport with an often tough history of poverty, industrial strife, migration, but, above all, humour.
Nicholas Murray is a freelance author based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool in 1952 he is the author of several literary biographies (Bruce Chatwin [Seren Books], World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell [St Martin’s Press], Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual [Abacus], and Kafka [Little Brown]), two collections of poems, and two novels. He is a regular contributor of poems, essays and reviews to newspapers and literary magazines such as The Independent, The Guardian, The New Statesman, London Magazine, TLS, Thumbscrew, Metre, Poetry, Areté and many others. He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.
For further information or to order this book please click link below
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3797
LUP books are distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. For further information or to order this book please click link below
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/278139.ctl
SIMON BELL
SALES & MARKETING MANAGER, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS
4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZU, UK
Tel. +44-[0]151-794-2234, Fax +44-[0]151-794.2235
E: sbell@liv.ac.uk W: www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk
Monday, 3 March 2008
British Society of Criminology Conference 2008
***2ND CALL FOR PAPERS***
British Society of Criminology Conference 2008
9-11 July 2008
Hosted by the Applied Criminology Centre
University of Huddersfield
Criminological Futures; Controversies, Developments and Debates
***CALL CLOSES SUNDAY 13TH APRIL***
The title of the 2008 Conference reflects the breadth of contemporary
criminology and the diversity of theoretical and applied approaches to
analysing, explaining and reducing crime.
Whilst it is intended that the theme of the conference should reflect
the broad range of current debates and controversies within the field of
criminology, there will be a specific emphasis upon:
1. Building bridges between theory, research and practice
2. Technologies for crime detection and prevention
3. The role of Practitioners
There will be three major plenary sessions. In the first, Professor
Julian Roberts, University of Oxford and Dr Shadd Maruna, Queens
University Belfast, will be talking about issues surrounding Sentencing,
Rehabilitation and Reintegration.
In the second, Professor Barry Goldson, University of Liverpool and
Martin Narey, Chief Executive, Barnados will discuss the question of the
use of evidence in relation to youth justice policy and the link between
poverty and youth crime.
In the third, Professor Martin Gill, Director of PRCI and Professor
Sandra Walklate, University of Liverpool, will address the culture of
fear and surveillance: does it work?
Other highlights of the conference include a conference dinner speech by
Professor Jock Young, University of Kent, entitled "The Criminological
Imagination". There will also be a number of book launches, a series of
author/editor meets critics sessions and a conference dinner on the
evening of Thursday 10th July, held at the Cedar Court Hotel, Ainsley
Top, Huddersfield.
http://bscconference2008.hud.ac.uk/
All other enquiries can be made by email to:
criminologyconference2008@hud.ac.uk. Or by post to:
Conference Administrator
Applied Criminology Centre
Central Services Building Floor 14
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate, Huddersfield
HD1 3DH
British Society of Criminology Conference 2008
9-11 July 2008
Hosted by the Applied Criminology Centre
University of Huddersfield
Criminological Futures; Controversies, Developments and Debates
***CALL CLOSES SUNDAY 13TH APRIL***
The title of the 2008 Conference reflects the breadth of contemporary
criminology and the diversity of theoretical and applied approaches to
analysing, explaining and reducing crime.
Whilst it is intended that the theme of the conference should reflect
the broad range of current debates and controversies within the field of
criminology, there will be a specific emphasis upon:
1. Building bridges between theory, research and practice
2. Technologies for crime detection and prevention
3. The role of Practitioners
There will be three major plenary sessions. In the first, Professor
Julian Roberts, University of Oxford and Dr Shadd Maruna, Queens
University Belfast, will be talking about issues surrounding Sentencing,
Rehabilitation and Reintegration.
In the second, Professor Barry Goldson, University of Liverpool and
Martin Narey, Chief Executive, Barnados will discuss the question of the
use of evidence in relation to youth justice policy and the link between
poverty and youth crime.
In the third, Professor Martin Gill, Director of PRCI and Professor
Sandra Walklate, University of Liverpool, will address the culture of
fear and surveillance: does it work?
Other highlights of the conference include a conference dinner speech by
Professor Jock Young, University of Kent, entitled "The Criminological
Imagination". There will also be a number of book launches, a series of
author/editor meets critics sessions and a conference dinner on the
evening of Thursday 10th July, held at the Cedar Court Hotel, Ainsley
Top, Huddersfield.
http://bscconference2008.hud.ac.uk/
All other enquiries can be made by email to:
criminologyconference2008@hud.ac.uk. Or by post to:
Conference Administrator
Applied Criminology Centre
Central Services Building Floor 14
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate, Huddersfield
HD1 3DH
Friday, 29 February 2008
"At Homes with the Security State" a public lecture by Cindi Zatz, 13th March, London
you are warmly invited to come to a public lecture entitled 'At Home
with the Security State'
given by Cindi Katz, Professor of Geography, City University of New York
Thursday 13 March 5.30pm
Lecture Room 126
Department of Geography
Queen May, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
A wine reception will follow the lecture
please confirm your attendence with Jason Go, Research and Teaching
Officer, Department of Geography, QMUL
Tel. +44 (0)20 7882 8129
Email. j.go@qmul.ac.uk
ABSTRACT for the talk:
A mobius strip of fear threads between home and ‘homeland,’ weaving
anxiety to military technology, it twists around security. In security’s
name, people have acquiesced to a public environment that is monitored,
bunkered, and conspicuously patrolled while they remake their
homes as fortresses. The stepped up militarisation of everyday life—to
say nothing of the sprawling and seemingly endless ‘war on terror’ – is
routinised in the apparatus of fear. Children, as vulnerable subjects
and as emblems of a fraught future, both embody the insecurity and
provide an alibi for its technologies. In this presentation, I will
argue that the regime of parental hypervigilance has much in common with
that of the homeland security state. The parallels in tactics,
strategies, and effects between the two scales of ‘domestic’ security
are as chilling as they are revealing. Looking at their effects on the
body and the spaces of the home, the city, and the public environment
more broadly, I will argue first that the material social practices of
security at these two scales feed off of and help justify one another to
reconfigure daily life and legitimate practices unthinkable even a
decade ago, and second that as these strategies are increasingly
domesticated they soften us as subjects of surveillance
with the Security State'
given by Cindi Katz, Professor of Geography, City University of New York
Thursday 13 March 5.30pm
Lecture Room 126
Department of Geography
Queen May, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
A wine reception will follow the lecture
please confirm your attendence with Jason Go, Research and Teaching
Officer, Department of Geography, QMUL
Tel. +44 (0)20 7882 8129
Email. j.go@qmul.ac.uk
ABSTRACT for the talk:
A mobius strip of fear threads between home and ‘homeland,’ weaving
anxiety to military technology, it twists around security. In security’s
name, people have acquiesced to a public environment that is monitored,
bunkered, and conspicuously patrolled while they remake their
homes as fortresses. The stepped up militarisation of everyday life—to
say nothing of the sprawling and seemingly endless ‘war on terror’ – is
routinised in the apparatus of fear. Children, as vulnerable subjects
and as emblems of a fraught future, both embody the insecurity and
provide an alibi for its technologies. In this presentation, I will
argue that the regime of parental hypervigilance has much in common with
that of the homeland security state. The parallels in tactics,
strategies, and effects between the two scales of ‘domestic’ security
are as chilling as they are revealing. Looking at their effects on the
body and the spaces of the home, the city, and the public environment
more broadly, I will argue first that the material social practices of
security at these two scales feed off of and help justify one another to
reconfigure daily life and legitimate practices unthinkable even a
decade ago, and second that as these strategies are increasingly
domesticated they soften us as subjects of surveillance
It's adults, not young people, who are a public menace... Article on children in public space
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/26/children
Thursday, 28 February 2008
'DIY Community Action': New book by Liz Richardson
The Policy Press are about to publish a new book, 'DIY Community Action',
by Liz Richardson, and part of our CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and
Policy series. I am sure that this title will be of interest to members of
this list.
The book presents a lively challenge to the existing thinking on community
development, and proposes ways forward for community building. It offers
thought-provoking answers to these questions, based on detailed real-life
evidence from over 100 community groups, each trying to combat
neighbourhood problems. For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1478
With thanks and best regards,
Jessica
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thereafter.
by Liz Richardson, and part of our CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and
Policy series. I am sure that this title will be of interest to members of
this list.
The book presents a lively challenge to the existing thinking on community
development, and proposes ways forward for community building. It offers
thought-provoking answers to these questions, based on detailed real-life
evidence from over 100 community groups, each trying to combat
neighbourhood problems. For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1478
With thanks and best regards,
Jessica
Policy Press books can be ordered from our website
(https://www.policypress.org.uk/) or from our distributor:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4YN
Te: +44 (0)1235 465500
Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk
P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Music, Sound, and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space
Music, Sound, and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space
Conference to be held at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University, April 18-19th 2008
Organisers
Georgina Born
Tom Rice
This conference pursues themes raised by the recent burgeoning of the interdisciplinary field of auditory culture studies, which has evolved at the interface of historical and contemporary musicology, philosophy of music and critical theory, ethnomusicology and anthropology of sound and senses, sociology and social psychology of music, cultural studies, and the new practices of sound art and site-specific music and sound.
The conference sits at the intersection of two related developments. First, it addresses the ways in which sound and music, particularly as they are technologically mediated, have come to play a pivotal role in re-drawing the boundaries between the ‘public’ and the ‘private’ by individuals, groups and institutions. There is growing awareness that acoustic strategies may be used by groups and individuals in demarcating space, and in projecting themselves within it, establishing new and often contested boundaries between the public and the private. This tendency is striking in relation to physical and virtual spaces, on the one hand, and to social spaces, on the other; music and sound are increasingly used to mark territory, place, and social identities. Music is employed both to humanise space and attract sociality, and to discourage human contact and block off sociality. Although some of these developments were apparent with analogue audio technologies, they have been greatly exacerbated by digitisation and by music’s privileged relations with the internet, in which it leads other expressive artforms in the degree and scale of its remediation. The conference will therefore examine the manner in which musical and acoustical dynamics have become integral to the construction and imagination of social and physical space, and the ways in which they may be both constructed and negotiated.
Relatedly, the conference explores how the proliferation of sound technologies has resulted in a situation in which acoustic environments are increasingly malleable. To an unprecedented degree, music and sound are being employed to create a ‘nesting’ of the private and public, while audio technologies are used to effect a series of radical transformations of musical experience: children using sound technologies to create individual ‘private’ environments within the collective, ‘private’ domestic space of the home; soldiers using individual sound technologies inside tanks in battle to construct a sense of intimate, affective space and identity which fends off and occludes the ‘public’, ambient sounds of violent warfare; the mobile phone used to create a new genre of private-in-public communication; and real-time, embodied intersubjective musical practices being replaced by virtual, disembodied music-making and virtually-distributed musical cognition.
Understanding these developments requires that we make use of the conceptual tools of musicology, the social sciences and critical theory, while also necessitating that they be re-worked for the more complex, pervasive and ramifying mediations of contemporary life. The conference therefore brings together leading theorists of music, sound, mediation and modernity, as well as those engaged in rich empirical research – historical, contemporary and cross-cultural – to debate these developments and outline new perspectives to advance the given coordinates bequeathed by Adorno, Benjamin, Murray Schafer, as well as contemporary scholars such as Michael Bull, Tia DeNora, Steve Feld and Jonathan Sterne.
A feature of the conference will be to integrate perspectives from those working creatively with the new soundscapes: composers and sound artists, some of them also engaged in empirical research, who are concerned to reflect the new sonic environments in their creative work. We hope to have a couple of performances or sound installations running alongside the event, and we will ask a composer to produce a piece to illustrate the new soundscapes in relation to changing private and public boundaries. The conference will include speakers from several of the fields mentioned above; it will be international in scope, involving speakers from the US and from a number of universities within the UK. It will innovate in bringing theoretical, historical and empirical perspectives together with composers of sound art and site-specific music. One aim of the conference is to produce papers towards an edited book. We are in dialogue with Duke University Press to publish the collection, and intend to develop a volume on the acoustic politics of space.
Speakers -
Philip Bohlman, Chicago
Michael Bull, Sussex
Eric Clarke, Oxford
Nicholas Cook, RHUL
Suzanne Cusick, NYU
Tia DeNora, Exeter
Nicola Dibben, Sheffield
John Drever, Goldsmiths
Further information and registration are available at the CRASSH
website:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/musicsoundspace.html
Conference to be held at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University, April 18-19th 2008
Organisers
Georgina Born
Tom Rice
This conference pursues themes raised by the recent burgeoning of the interdisciplinary field of auditory culture studies, which has evolved at the interface of historical and contemporary musicology, philosophy of music and critical theory, ethnomusicology and anthropology of sound and senses, sociology and social psychology of music, cultural studies, and the new practices of sound art and site-specific music and sound.
The conference sits at the intersection of two related developments. First, it addresses the ways in which sound and music, particularly as they are technologically mediated, have come to play a pivotal role in re-drawing the boundaries between the ‘public’ and the ‘private’ by individuals, groups and institutions. There is growing awareness that acoustic strategies may be used by groups and individuals in demarcating space, and in projecting themselves within it, establishing new and often contested boundaries between the public and the private. This tendency is striking in relation to physical and virtual spaces, on the one hand, and to social spaces, on the other; music and sound are increasingly used to mark territory, place, and social identities. Music is employed both to humanise space and attract sociality, and to discourage human contact and block off sociality. Although some of these developments were apparent with analogue audio technologies, they have been greatly exacerbated by digitisation and by music’s privileged relations with the internet, in which it leads other expressive artforms in the degree and scale of its remediation. The conference will therefore examine the manner in which musical and acoustical dynamics have become integral to the construction and imagination of social and physical space, and the ways in which they may be both constructed and negotiated.
Relatedly, the conference explores how the proliferation of sound technologies has resulted in a situation in which acoustic environments are increasingly malleable. To an unprecedented degree, music and sound are being employed to create a ‘nesting’ of the private and public, while audio technologies are used to effect a series of radical transformations of musical experience: children using sound technologies to create individual ‘private’ environments within the collective, ‘private’ domestic space of the home; soldiers using individual sound technologies inside tanks in battle to construct a sense of intimate, affective space and identity which fends off and occludes the ‘public’, ambient sounds of violent warfare; the mobile phone used to create a new genre of private-in-public communication; and real-time, embodied intersubjective musical practices being replaced by virtual, disembodied music-making and virtually-distributed musical cognition.
Understanding these developments requires that we make use of the conceptual tools of musicology, the social sciences and critical theory, while also necessitating that they be re-worked for the more complex, pervasive and ramifying mediations of contemporary life. The conference therefore brings together leading theorists of music, sound, mediation and modernity, as well as those engaged in rich empirical research – historical, contemporary and cross-cultural – to debate these developments and outline new perspectives to advance the given coordinates bequeathed by Adorno, Benjamin, Murray Schafer, as well as contemporary scholars such as Michael Bull, Tia DeNora, Steve Feld and Jonathan Sterne.
A feature of the conference will be to integrate perspectives from those working creatively with the new soundscapes: composers and sound artists, some of them also engaged in empirical research, who are concerned to reflect the new sonic environments in their creative work. We hope to have a couple of performances or sound installations running alongside the event, and we will ask a composer to produce a piece to illustrate the new soundscapes in relation to changing private and public boundaries. The conference will include speakers from several of the fields mentioned above; it will be international in scope, involving speakers from the US and from a number of universities within the UK. It will innovate in bringing theoretical, historical and empirical perspectives together with composers of sound art and site-specific music. One aim of the conference is to produce papers towards an edited book. We are in dialogue with Duke University Press to publish the collection, and intend to develop a volume on the acoustic politics of space.
Speakers -
Philip Bohlman, Chicago
Michael Bull, Sussex
Eric Clarke, Oxford
Nicholas Cook, RHUL
Suzanne Cusick, NYU
Tia DeNora, Exeter
Nicola Dibben, Sheffield
John Drever, Goldsmiths
Further information and registration are available at the CRASSH
website:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/musicsoundspace.html
5th EAST ASIAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHY (EARCAG)
First Call for Papers
5th EAST ASIAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHY (EARCAG)
Seoul, Korea, 13-16 December 2008
Following four successful conferences between 1999 and 2006, the fifth East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG) will be held in Seoul, Korea, 13-16 December 2008. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for scholar from all parts of the world to discuss and debate critically urban and regional issues in East Asia.
Themes
There are two main themes in this conference. The first main theme is “Searching for a ‘Globalpolis’, as a progressive urban utopia, in the era of globalization.” Cities in East Asia have become increasingly globalized for the last decade. Along with the spread of neoliberal variant of globalization, the global(izing) cities in East Asia have faced increasing numbers of problems associated with growing spatial and social inequalities, dissolution of existing urban communities, increasing inter-ethnic or inter-cultural tensions, etc. As a way of finding resolutions to these problems, we suggest to imagine a progressive and alternative urban utopia, which we call a “Globalpolis”. Under this theme, we can tackle the following issues.
- Flows, networks and transnational urbanism
- Critical evaluations of the discourses of global city, creative city, innovative cities etc.
- Humanistic visions for “Globalpolis”
- Urban historicity and cultural heritage
- Power, identity and the city
- Critique of neo-liberal urbanization
- Alternative urban governance
- Social activism and civic space
- Gentrification, urban (re)development and mega urban project
- Urban environment and sustainable cities
To be added…
The second main theme is “Re-imagining the national territories in East Asia.” Existing territoriality of the national politico-economic communities in East Asia have been increasingly challenged by growing movement of capital, people, knowledge and goods across national boundaries. At the same time, however, nationalistic sentiments and national identities have been strengthened due to recent geopolitical changes in this region. What has happened in the East Asian nations and states in terms of their territorialities in relation to the increasing transnationalization of social, political, cultural and economic activities? Under this theme, we can address the following issues.
- Historical and geographical construction of national territoriality
- State, power and national territories
- Transnationalism and reorganization of national territories
- Spatial and scalar restructuring of the state
- Decentralization and the changing nature of center-local relations
- Nationalism/transnationalism and landscape
To be added…
In addition to these main themes, this conference aims to question and contextualize every issue in the development of critical and alternative geography in East Asia. Examples of other relevant issues are:
- Political economies of development
- Global economic changes and uneven regional development
- Globalization, agriculture and rural development
- Critical geopolitics in East Asia
- Globalization and regionalization in East Asia
- Innovation, cluster and agglomeration economy
- Nature and environment
- Gender and spaces of difference
- Geographies of social movement
- History of geographical practice and thoughts
- entrepreneurial city and place-marketing
……
The above list is just for illustration, not limitation. We strongly encourage the participants to mobilize your geographical imagination beyond them.
Papers and organized sessions are welcome from everyone, geographers and non-geographers alike, from any disciplinary areas.
Date
13 ~ 15 December, 2008: Parallel Sessions
16 December, 2008: Field trip
Venues
This conference is hosted by Seoul National University (13-14 December, 2008) and the University of Seoul (15 December, 2008).
Keynote Speakers
To be selected soon.
Steering Committee
Byung-Doo Choi (Deagu University, South Korea)
Chu-joe Hsia (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Jinn-yuh Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotshbashi University, Japan)
Toshio Mizuuchi (Osaka City University, Japan)
Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Local Organizing Committee
Bae-Gyoon Park (Department of Geography Education, Seoul National University)
Byung-Doo Choi (Department of Geography Education, Daegu University)
Kyoung Park (Department of Digital Economics, Mokwon University)
Seong-Paik Lee (Department of Philosophy, University of Seoul)
Hyun-Jae Lee (Institute for Humanities, University of Seoul)
To be added…
Registration
Those wishing to attend this conference must register by 30 August 2008. The registration form will be attached in the 2nd call, which will be issued by the end of March 2008.
Abstracts
Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit by E-mail the TITLE and ABSRACTS (ca. 500 words) by 30 August 2008. The recipient of the email will be announced in the 2nd call.
Organized Sessions
Those planning to organize a SESSION or SESSIONS must contact Dr. Bae-Gyoon Park (geopbg@snu.ac.kr) by 31 July 2008, with title and description of the session(s) and the names of prospective presenters.
Official Language
The official language of the EARCAG is English. All the papers are to be presented and discussed in English, except for the closing session on the last day of the conference, in which the translation services for English, Korean, Chinese and Japanese will be provided.
Registration Fee
Participants from South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore
US$100 (faculty) US$50 (student)
Participants from Rest of Asia, East Europe, Latin America and Africa
US$60 (faculty) US$30 (student)
Participants from North America, West Europe and Japan (G7 Group)
US$120 (faculty) US$60 (student)
The fee includes two receptions, lunches during the conference, coffee breaks and a conference packet with conference proceedings. Field trips must be paid separately.
All the fees listed here are provisional and subject to change. The payment details will be announced in the 2nd call.
Accommodation
To be announced in the 2nd call.
Field trip
To be announced in the 2nd call.
Important Deadlines
Organizing paper session 31 July 2008
Registration 30 August 2008
Submission of abstracts 30 August 2008
5th EAST ASIAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHY (EARCAG)
Seoul, Korea, 13-16 December 2008
Following four successful conferences between 1999 and 2006, the fifth East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG) will be held in Seoul, Korea, 13-16 December 2008. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for scholar from all parts of the world to discuss and debate critically urban and regional issues in East Asia.
Themes
There are two main themes in this conference. The first main theme is “Searching for a ‘Globalpolis’, as a progressive urban utopia, in the era of globalization.” Cities in East Asia have become increasingly globalized for the last decade. Along with the spread of neoliberal variant of globalization, the global(izing) cities in East Asia have faced increasing numbers of problems associated with growing spatial and social inequalities, dissolution of existing urban communities, increasing inter-ethnic or inter-cultural tensions, etc. As a way of finding resolutions to these problems, we suggest to imagine a progressive and alternative urban utopia, which we call a “Globalpolis”. Under this theme, we can tackle the following issues.
- Flows, networks and transnational urbanism
- Critical evaluations of the discourses of global city, creative city, innovative cities etc.
- Humanistic visions for “Globalpolis”
- Urban historicity and cultural heritage
- Power, identity and the city
- Critique of neo-liberal urbanization
- Alternative urban governance
- Social activism and civic space
- Gentrification, urban (re)development and mega urban project
- Urban environment and sustainable cities
To be added…
The second main theme is “Re-imagining the national territories in East Asia.” Existing territoriality of the national politico-economic communities in East Asia have been increasingly challenged by growing movement of capital, people, knowledge and goods across national boundaries. At the same time, however, nationalistic sentiments and national identities have been strengthened due to recent geopolitical changes in this region. What has happened in the East Asian nations and states in terms of their territorialities in relation to the increasing transnationalization of social, political, cultural and economic activities? Under this theme, we can address the following issues.
- Historical and geographical construction of national territoriality
- State, power and national territories
- Transnationalism and reorganization of national territories
- Spatial and scalar restructuring of the state
- Decentralization and the changing nature of center-local relations
- Nationalism/transnationalism and landscape
To be added…
In addition to these main themes, this conference aims to question and contextualize every issue in the development of critical and alternative geography in East Asia. Examples of other relevant issues are:
- Political economies of development
- Global economic changes and uneven regional development
- Globalization, agriculture and rural development
- Critical geopolitics in East Asia
- Globalization and regionalization in East Asia
- Innovation, cluster and agglomeration economy
- Nature and environment
- Gender and spaces of difference
- Geographies of social movement
- History of geographical practice and thoughts
- entrepreneurial city and place-marketing
……
The above list is just for illustration, not limitation. We strongly encourage the participants to mobilize your geographical imagination beyond them.
Papers and organized sessions are welcome from everyone, geographers and non-geographers alike, from any disciplinary areas.
Date
13 ~ 15 December, 2008: Parallel Sessions
16 December, 2008: Field trip
Venues
This conference is hosted by Seoul National University (13-14 December, 2008) and the University of Seoul (15 December, 2008).
Keynote Speakers
To be selected soon.
Steering Committee
Byung-Doo Choi (Deagu University, South Korea)
Chu-joe Hsia (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Jinn-yuh Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotshbashi University, Japan)
Toshio Mizuuchi (Osaka City University, Japan)
Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Local Organizing Committee
Bae-Gyoon Park (Department of Geography Education, Seoul National University)
Byung-Doo Choi (Department of Geography Education, Daegu University)
Kyoung Park (Department of Digital Economics, Mokwon University)
Seong-Paik Lee (Department of Philosophy, University of Seoul)
Hyun-Jae Lee (Institute for Humanities, University of Seoul)
To be added…
Registration
Those wishing to attend this conference must register by 30 August 2008. The registration form will be attached in the 2nd call, which will be issued by the end of March 2008.
Abstracts
Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit by E-mail the TITLE and ABSRACTS (ca. 500 words) by 30 August 2008. The recipient of the email will be announced in the 2nd call.
Organized Sessions
Those planning to organize a SESSION or SESSIONS must contact Dr. Bae-Gyoon Park (geopbg@snu.ac.kr) by 31 July 2008, with title and description of the session(s) and the names of prospective presenters.
Official Language
The official language of the EARCAG is English. All the papers are to be presented and discussed in English, except for the closing session on the last day of the conference, in which the translation services for English, Korean, Chinese and Japanese will be provided.
Registration Fee
Participants from South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore
US$100 (faculty) US$50 (student)
Participants from Rest of Asia, East Europe, Latin America and Africa
US$60 (faculty) US$30 (student)
Participants from North America, West Europe and Japan (G7 Group)
US$120 (faculty) US$60 (student)
The fee includes two receptions, lunches during the conference, coffee breaks and a conference packet with conference proceedings. Field trips must be paid separately.
All the fees listed here are provisional and subject to change. The payment details will be announced in the 2nd call.
Accommodation
To be announced in the 2nd call.
Field trip
To be announced in the 2nd call.
Important Deadlines
Organizing paper session 31 July 2008
Registration 30 August 2008
Submission of abstracts 30 August 2008
The latest issue of 'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice' is now avaliable...
The latest issue of 'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice'
(Volume 16, number 1) is now available. Please see the table of contents
below.
We are currently offering a free online trial to 'Benefits: The Journal of
Poverty and Social Justice', during which time you can access all online
content, as available to current subscribers. Personal subscribers will be
able to access the free content for 30 days and institutions will be able
to activate the trial for 3 months. To sign up, go to
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/ben
In this issue:
Prisoners' families: civic virtue and policies of impoverishment
Rose Smith, Roger Grimshaw, Renee Romeo, Martin Knapp
The experiences of 'new' East European immigrants in the UK labour market
Eugenia Markova, Richard Black
Ill health in the family: the intersection of employment and caring across
households from four ethnic groups
Lucinda Platt, Sarah Salway, Punita Chowbey, Kaveri Harriss
Managing money in later life: help from relatives and friends
Hilary Arksey, Anne Corden, Caroline Glendinning, Michael Hirst
The Street Wardens Programme as a neighbourhood renewal intervention: the
challenge of translating national policy into creative local responses in a
performance management context
Chih Hoong Sin
A living wage for London?
Chris Grover
Citizen-centred welfare: a single income-replacement benefit and
personalised conditions and support
Kate Stanley
Who's really on the fiddle?
Neil Bateman
Unhappy fund?
Terry Patterson
Upstairs, downstairs: behind the scenes in London's luxury hotels
Hartley Dean
Department for Work and Pensions
Contracting out welfare to work in the US: delivery lessons
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
A review of research on the links between education and poverty
Government Round-up
Ruth Lister, Stephen Morris
The idea of poverty
John Veit-Wilson
On the margins of inclusion: Changing labour markets and social exclusion
in Graham Bowpitt
'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice' publishes
high-quality work that is essential reading for academics, practitioners,
policy makers and students. Focusing on poverty and social exclusion, the
journal explores links with social security (including pensions and tax
credits), employment, area regeneration, housing, health, education and
criminal justice, as well as issues of ethnicity, gender, disability and
other social inequalities. For more information and to subscribe, visit:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/journals/benefits/
(Volume 16, number 1) is now available. Please see the table of contents
below.
We are currently offering a free online trial to 'Benefits: The Journal of
Poverty and Social Justice', during which time you can access all online
content, as available to current subscribers. Personal subscribers will be
able to access the free content for 30 days and institutions will be able
to activate the trial for 3 months. To sign up, go to
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/ben
In this issue:
Prisoners' families: civic virtue and policies of impoverishment
Rose Smith, Roger Grimshaw, Renee Romeo, Martin Knapp
The experiences of 'new' East European immigrants in the UK labour market
Eugenia Markova, Richard Black
Ill health in the family: the intersection of employment and caring across
households from four ethnic groups
Lucinda Platt, Sarah Salway, Punita Chowbey, Kaveri Harriss
Managing money in later life: help from relatives and friends
Hilary Arksey, Anne Corden, Caroline Glendinning, Michael Hirst
The Street Wardens Programme as a neighbourhood renewal intervention: the
challenge of translating national policy into creative local responses in a
performance management context
Chih Hoong Sin
A living wage for London?
Chris Grover
Citizen-centred welfare: a single income-replacement benefit and
personalised conditions and support
Kate Stanley
Who's really on the fiddle?
Neil Bateman
Unhappy fund?
Terry Patterson
Upstairs, downstairs: behind the scenes in London's luxury hotels
Hartley Dean
Department for Work and Pensions
Contracting out welfare to work in the US: delivery lessons
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
A review of research on the links between education and poverty
Government Round-up
Ruth Lister, Stephen Morris
The idea of poverty
John Veit-Wilson
On the margins of inclusion: Changing labour markets and social exclusion
in Graham Bowpitt
'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice' publishes
high-quality work that is essential reading for academics, practitioners,
policy makers and students. Focusing on poverty and social exclusion, the
journal explores links with social security (including pensions and tax
credits), employment, area regeneration, housing, health, education and
criminal justice, as well as issues of ethnicity, gender, disability and
other social inequalities. For more information and to subscribe, visit:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/journals/benefits/
PLANNING PORTAL NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: ECO-TOWNS
PLANNING PORTAL NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: ECO-TOWNS
25/2/2008
The Planning Portal has published a special report on eco-towns - a high-profile area affecting planning policy.
The report looks at:
* the housing and climate change context
* the planning elements of eco-towns
* the bidding process so far
* key features of an eco-town
Read the eco-towns special report:
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/news?1115315508453
Recently published and up-dated guides:
Planning and Greener Homes - featuring planning and building regulations guidance on domestic energy generation and energy efficiency.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315124405.html
Planning and Mobile Phone Masts - featuring how mobile phone networks operate, the planning framework, consultation and appeals procedures.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315371796.html
25/2/2008
The Planning Portal has published a special report on eco-towns - a high-profile area affecting planning policy.
The report looks at:
* the housing and climate change context
* the planning elements of eco-towns
* the bidding process so far
* key features of an eco-town
Read the eco-towns special report:
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/news?1115315508453
Recently published and up-dated guides:
Planning and Greener Homes - featuring planning and building regulations guidance on domestic energy generation and energy efficiency.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315124405.html
Planning and Mobile Phone Masts - featuring how mobile phone networks operate, the planning framework, consultation and appeals procedures.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315371796.html
The Spaces of Democracy and Democracy of Space: Reflections upon the Vision for the Network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University
The Spaces of Democracy and Democracy of Space:
Reflections upon the Vision for the Network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University
The Seminar will take place in Room 5S.4.11 at the University of Essex between 2-4pm. Further details can be obtained from Noreen Harburt (Noreen@essex.ac.uk).
In recent decades there has been an intense focus upon how we can, and should, understand the ‘space of democracy and the democracy of space’. Of course this question is not new, but what could be called the ‘spatial turn’ in academia, shows that globalisation brings spatial interconnections and flows to the fore, whilst throwing open the idea of fixed boundaries and borders. We have moved away from the assumption that space can be regarded as a pre-given background or even container of political life. Today, emphasis is placed upon the spatial circulation of people, passions, new social movements, technosciences, media and information; and how these contribute to situated political action in given, empirical contexts. But this spatial turn also throws up thorny tensions as to what will count and work as democratic practice today. Given that spatial flows and interconnections are now foregrounded in debate, how should we understand some of the central tensions which characterise democracy today; between ‘territorial and post-territorial politics’, ‘citizenship as everyday practice and the reassertion of statism’, ‘representation and participation’ and ‘being affected by an issue and the right to participate in it’?
The emerging "Space of Democracy and the Democracy of Space" network explores such questions. It involves around 400 academics globally, working across the disciplines of political philosophy, politics, planning, geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, sociology and development studies. We are presently concentrating upon establishing institutional sites, in different geographical locations, for the network to operate through. Once established, these will eventually take conversations through the different disciplines via academic workshops, academic journals, public debates, the general media and website interfaces, for example.
This will take place under the direction of Jonathan Pugh. We would also like to acknowledge the significant assistance of the special advisors, Noortje Marres, Chantal Mouffe, David Howarth, Liza Griffin, Doreen Massey, Mo O’Toole, Miles Irving, and Oliver Moss. Some of those who have actively signed up to take part in events and/or publications so far include Tony Benn, David Chandler, Tom Bentley, Swapna Banerjee-Guha, Sheila Jasanoff, Michael Watts, Bernard Crick, Andy Dobson, Catherine Fieschi, David Boyle, David Harvey, Clare Short, Paul Kingsnorth, David Featherstone, John Forester, Nick Cohen, Saskia Sassen, Frank Furedi, Ed Soja, Maarten Hajer, David Howarth, Patsy Healey, Will Hutton, Tim Ingold, Uma Kothari, Scott Lash, Nina Laurie, Oliver Marchart, Phil McNaghton, Chantal Mouffe, Susan Owens, Jonathan Pugh, Steve Rayner, Jenny Robinson, Richard Sennett, AbdouMaliq Simone, Joe Smith, Yannis Stavrakakis, Deborah Thien, Nigel Thrift, Francoise Verges, Hilary Wainwright, Sarah Whatmore, Steve Hinchliffe, Clive Barnett, Liza Griffin, Jim Martin, David Oswell, Oren Yiftachel, Daniela Korbas Magal, Andrew Barry, Jane Bennett, Matthew Fuller, David Oswell, Albena Yaneva, Terrell Carver, and Sandra Halperin. We also operate through a long-term public debating forum, The Great Debate; putting on debates involving college students and members of the general public in the North East of England in particular.
The Spaces of Democracy and Democracy of Space:
reflections upon our vision for the network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University
It is extremely important to the network that we develop an "early career" strand. This will be directed by Liza Griffin of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. It will seek to include early career academics in all aspects of the networks development in coming years.
And so, on the 12th March, 2008, at Essex University, a panel of those involved in the network will be discussing its vision and planned activities with early career academics. If you are an early career academic, we would very much like you to come along to this event.
There will also be discussions of some key works which will be shaping the network in years to come, and an evening event around a panel discussion of Aletta Norval’s new book: Aversive Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). This Seminar will also take place in Room 5S.4.11 at the University of Essex between 5-7pm. For further information in this regard, see http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/TheoStud/
If you are interested in the network, please contact Jonathan.Pugh@ncl.ac.uk.
Reflections upon the Vision for the Network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University
The Seminar will take place in Room 5S.4.11 at the University of Essex between 2-4pm. Further details can be obtained from Noreen Harburt (Noreen@essex.ac.uk).
In recent decades there has been an intense focus upon how we can, and should, understand the ‘space of democracy and the democracy of space’. Of course this question is not new, but what could be called the ‘spatial turn’ in academia, shows that globalisation brings spatial interconnections and flows to the fore, whilst throwing open the idea of fixed boundaries and borders. We have moved away from the assumption that space can be regarded as a pre-given background or even container of political life. Today, emphasis is placed upon the spatial circulation of people, passions, new social movements, technosciences, media and information; and how these contribute to situated political action in given, empirical contexts. But this spatial turn also throws up thorny tensions as to what will count and work as democratic practice today. Given that spatial flows and interconnections are now foregrounded in debate, how should we understand some of the central tensions which characterise democracy today; between ‘territorial and post-territorial politics’, ‘citizenship as everyday practice and the reassertion of statism’, ‘representation and participation’ and ‘being affected by an issue and the right to participate in it’?
The emerging "Space of Democracy and the Democracy of Space" network explores such questions. It involves around 400 academics globally, working across the disciplines of political philosophy, politics, planning, geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, sociology and development studies. We are presently concentrating upon establishing institutional sites, in different geographical locations, for the network to operate through. Once established, these will eventually take conversations through the different disciplines via academic workshops, academic journals, public debates, the general media and website interfaces, for example.
This will take place under the direction of Jonathan Pugh. We would also like to acknowledge the significant assistance of the special advisors, Noortje Marres, Chantal Mouffe, David Howarth, Liza Griffin, Doreen Massey, Mo O’Toole, Miles Irving, and Oliver Moss. Some of those who have actively signed up to take part in events and/or publications so far include Tony Benn, David Chandler, Tom Bentley, Swapna Banerjee-Guha, Sheila Jasanoff, Michael Watts, Bernard Crick, Andy Dobson, Catherine Fieschi, David Boyle, David Harvey, Clare Short, Paul Kingsnorth, David Featherstone, John Forester, Nick Cohen, Saskia Sassen, Frank Furedi, Ed Soja, Maarten Hajer, David Howarth, Patsy Healey, Will Hutton, Tim Ingold, Uma Kothari, Scott Lash, Nina Laurie, Oliver Marchart, Phil McNaghton, Chantal Mouffe, Susan Owens, Jonathan Pugh, Steve Rayner, Jenny Robinson, Richard Sennett, AbdouMaliq Simone, Joe Smith, Yannis Stavrakakis, Deborah Thien, Nigel Thrift, Francoise Verges, Hilary Wainwright, Sarah Whatmore, Steve Hinchliffe, Clive Barnett, Liza Griffin, Jim Martin, David Oswell, Oren Yiftachel, Daniela Korbas Magal, Andrew Barry, Jane Bennett, Matthew Fuller, David Oswell, Albena Yaneva, Terrell Carver, and Sandra Halperin. We also operate through a long-term public debating forum, The Great Debate; putting on debates involving college students and members of the general public in the North East of England in particular.
The Spaces of Democracy and Democracy of Space:
reflections upon our vision for the network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University
It is extremely important to the network that we develop an "early career" strand. This will be directed by Liza Griffin of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. It will seek to include early career academics in all aspects of the networks development in coming years.
And so, on the 12th March, 2008, at Essex University, a panel of those involved in the network will be discussing its vision and planned activities with early career academics. If you are an early career academic, we would very much like you to come along to this event.
There will also be discussions of some key works which will be shaping the network in years to come, and an evening event around a panel discussion of Aletta Norval’s new book: Aversive Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). This Seminar will also take place in Room 5S.4.11 at the University of Essex between 5-7pm. For further information in this regard, see http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/TheoStud/
If you are interested in the network, please contact Jonathan.Pugh@ncl.ac.uk.
The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update Consultation
People, Places, Futures:
The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update Consultation
A joint event between the
Welsh Assembly Government and RTPI Cymru
The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update
set in context for planners
A consultation on the Wales Spatial Plan Update 2008: People Places Futures is running for 12 weeks from 31st January to 24th April 2008. The document sets a vision for how each part of Wales should develop economically, socially and environmentally over the next 20 years and will guide the way the Assembly Government spends its money over the coming years.
A huge amount of cross-sector and partnership working has seen real progress made against the goals identified in the first Spatial Plan in 2004. It has helped achieve a joined up approach to complex issues such as transport, housing and settlement patterns for the first time, leading to more effective use of public finance.
The Welsh Assembly Government and RTPI Cymru are jointly holding two special consultation workshops to explore the issues which are specific to planning. These are in addition to the more general regional workshops. The workshops will be held in Cardiff and Bangor. The workshops will start at 10 and finish at 1pm with lunch.
* Cardiff, Wednesday 9th April 2008, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
* Bangor, Thursday 10th April 2008, Technium CAST Parc Menai, Bangor
Registration
The event is free to attend but you must register by 31 March 2008. Please complete and return the registration form to:
E-mail: wales@rtpi.org.uk
By post: RTPI Cymru PO Box 2465, Cardiff CF23 0DS
http://new.wales.gov.uk/consultations/currentconsultation/improveps/wspconsult/?lang=en
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Pobl, Lleoedd, Dyfodol: Ymgynghori ar Ddiweddaru Cynllun Gofodol Cymru 2008
Cyd-ddigwyddiad rhwng
Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru a RTPI Cymru
Gosod Diweddariad Cynllun Gofodol Cymru 2008 Mewn Cyd-destun i Gynllunwyr
Mae ymgynghoriad ar Gynllun Gofodol Cymru: Pobl, Lleoedd, Dyfodol yn rhedeg o 31ain Ionawr tan 24ain Ebrill 2008 am gyfnod o 12 wythnos. Mae'r ddogfen hon yn amlinellu gweledigaeth ar gyfer datblygiad economaidd, cymdeithasol ac amgylcheddol pob rhan o Gymru yn ystod yr 20 mlynedd nesaf, a bydd hefyd yn llywio'r ffordd y bydd Llywodraeth y Cynulliad yn gwario'i harian yn ystod y blynyddoedd nesaf.
Drwy gydweithio ar draws sectorau a thrwy weithio mewn partneriaeth, llwyddwyd i gymryd camau mawr ymlaen o ran y nodau a amlinellwyd yn y Cynllun Gofodol cyntaf yn 2004. Mae'r cynllun hwnnw wedi helpu i sicrhau ein bod, am y tro cyntaf, yn gweithredu mewn ffordd gydgysylltiedig ar faterion cymhleth megis trafnidiaeth, tai a phatrymau anheddu, ac mae wedi arwain hefyd at ddefnyddio arian cyhoeddus mewn ffordd fwy effeithiol.
Mae Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru a'r RTPI Cymru yn cynnal dau weithdy arbennig i archwilio materion sydd yn benodol i gynllunwyr. Mae'r rhain yn ychwanegol i'r gweithdai mwy cyffredinol yn y rhanbarthau. Bydd y ddau weithdy yng Nghaerdydd a Bangor yn dechrau am 10 ac yn gorffen am 1 gyda chinio.
· Caerdydd, Dydd Mercher 9fed Ebrill 2008, Stadiwm y Mileniwm
· Bangor, Dydd Iau 10fed Ebrill 2008, Tecniwm CAST Parc Menai, Bangor
Cofrestru
Mae'r digwyddiad am ddim ond mae rhaid cofrestru erbyn 31 Mawrth 2008. Cwblhewch y ffurflen cofrestru a'i dychwelyd at:
E-bost: Wales@rtpi.org.uk
Drwy'r post: RTPI Cymru, Blwch SP2465, Caerdydd, CF23 0DS
The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update Consultation
A joint event between the
Welsh Assembly Government and RTPI Cymru
The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update
set in context for planners
A consultation on the Wales Spatial Plan Update 2008: People Places Futures is running for 12 weeks from 31st January to 24th April 2008. The document sets a vision for how each part of Wales should develop economically, socially and environmentally over the next 20 years and will guide the way the Assembly Government spends its money over the coming years.
A huge amount of cross-sector and partnership working has seen real progress made against the goals identified in the first Spatial Plan in 2004. It has helped achieve a joined up approach to complex issues such as transport, housing and settlement patterns for the first time, leading to more effective use of public finance.
The Welsh Assembly Government and RTPI Cymru are jointly holding two special consultation workshops to explore the issues which are specific to planning. These are in addition to the more general regional workshops. The workshops will be held in Cardiff and Bangor. The workshops will start at 10 and finish at 1pm with lunch.
* Cardiff, Wednesday 9th April 2008, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
* Bangor, Thursday 10th April 2008, Technium CAST Parc Menai, Bangor
Registration
The event is free to attend but you must register by 31 March 2008. Please complete and return the registration form to:
E-mail: wales@rtpi.org.uk
By post: RTPI Cymru PO Box 2465, Cardiff CF23 0DS
http://new.wales.gov.uk/consultations/currentconsultation/improveps/wspconsult/?lang=en
image
Pobl, Lleoedd, Dyfodol: Ymgynghori ar Ddiweddaru Cynllun Gofodol Cymru 2008
Cyd-ddigwyddiad rhwng
Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru a RTPI Cymru
Gosod Diweddariad Cynllun Gofodol Cymru 2008 Mewn Cyd-destun i Gynllunwyr
Mae ymgynghoriad ar Gynllun Gofodol Cymru: Pobl, Lleoedd, Dyfodol yn rhedeg o 31ain Ionawr tan 24ain Ebrill 2008 am gyfnod o 12 wythnos. Mae'r ddogfen hon yn amlinellu gweledigaeth ar gyfer datblygiad economaidd, cymdeithasol ac amgylcheddol pob rhan o Gymru yn ystod yr 20 mlynedd nesaf, a bydd hefyd yn llywio'r ffordd y bydd Llywodraeth y Cynulliad yn gwario'i harian yn ystod y blynyddoedd nesaf.
Drwy gydweithio ar draws sectorau a thrwy weithio mewn partneriaeth, llwyddwyd i gymryd camau mawr ymlaen o ran y nodau a amlinellwyd yn y Cynllun Gofodol cyntaf yn 2004. Mae'r cynllun hwnnw wedi helpu i sicrhau ein bod, am y tro cyntaf, yn gweithredu mewn ffordd gydgysylltiedig ar faterion cymhleth megis trafnidiaeth, tai a phatrymau anheddu, ac mae wedi arwain hefyd at ddefnyddio arian cyhoeddus mewn ffordd fwy effeithiol.
Mae Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru a'r RTPI Cymru yn cynnal dau weithdy arbennig i archwilio materion sydd yn benodol i gynllunwyr. Mae'r rhain yn ychwanegol i'r gweithdai mwy cyffredinol yn y rhanbarthau. Bydd y ddau weithdy yng Nghaerdydd a Bangor yn dechrau am 10 ac yn gorffen am 1 gyda chinio.
· Caerdydd, Dydd Mercher 9fed Ebrill 2008, Stadiwm y Mileniwm
· Bangor, Dydd Iau 10fed Ebrill 2008, Tecniwm CAST Parc Menai, Bangor
Cofrestru
Mae'r digwyddiad am ddim ond mae rhaid cofrestru erbyn 31 Mawrth 2008. Cwblhewch y ffurflen cofrestru a'i dychwelyd at:
E-bost: Wales@rtpi.org.uk
Drwy'r post: RTPI Cymru, Blwch SP2465, Caerdydd, CF23 0DS
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