Urban Design and Planning

FEATURED JOB

Research Fellowship, Environmental Humanities

New York Botanical Garden

The Humanities Institute, a research division within the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden, offers a full-time, residential Research Fellowship for 2019 for current Ph.D. students or recent post-doctoral researchers.

The Vernacular Architecture Forum

Call for Nominations: 2019 Abbott Lowell Cummings Book Prize

Following on from the publication of Reification and Representation: Architecture in the Politico-Media-Complex Dr Graham Cairns is guest editing a special issue of the journal Architecture_MPS on the relationship between architecture, urban planning, social policy politocal image making.

The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture are organising the event Upgrading the Quality of Life in Urban Environments across the Muslim World by Dr Mohammad al-Asad on Thursday 22 November 2018. 

Following the successful international launch of Nuart Journal, we are now calling for submissions for Issue II. 

We welcome submissions from a broad range of authors including cultural heritage workers, historians, critics, cultural and human geographers, political theorists, anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, curators, artists, writers, taggers, anarchists, and out and out vandals.

For centuries, Man has been at the crux of fundamental concepts of architecture. While the term Man, and the Humanist tradition that followed from it, have been challenged in feminist, queer (see Footprint 21: Trans-Bodies/Queering Spaces), poststructuralist, and postcolonial critique, which questioned its nature, or even pondered if we are actually human, the debates have hardly escaped anthropocentrism.  

"Realities, Alternatives and Possibilities"

11 May, 2019 – London, UK

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It is easy to identify a city's identity by looking at its architecture. Architecture is the platform where all cultural, historical and economic monuments meet.

RC21 Conference @Delhi

September 18^th – 21^st , 2019

In and Beyond the City:

Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures

Call for Panels  (Deadline October 31, 2018)

Across the globe, cities surpass their own contours.

Panel Proposal for RC21@Delhi 2019

Yasmeen Arif

I hope to propose a panel in the upcoming RC21 conference in Delhi, India (2019 September 18th - 21.t) I am looking for individual researchers who might like to join in the panel as described below. For all queries please write to arif.yasmeen@gmail.com

Compassionate City

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