Urban Design and Planning

Syracuse University

ENVIRONMENTS BY DESIGN

The China Made project seeks to build an innovative research agenda for an infrastructural approach in the China Studies field. We approach infrastructure as both an empirically rich material object of research and an analytical strategy for framing research questions and approaches that help us explore more nuanced realms of techno-politics, everyday life, and spatio-temporal change in contemporary and historical China. In this panel, we focus on four key arenas of inquiry: the infrastructural state, infrastructure space, temporalities of infrastructure, and the everyday.

Call for Applications

2022 FFJ Fellowships

Dear colleagues,

The Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS is presently calling for applications for three thematic fellowships sponsored by our partners:

UrbanMetaMapping research consortium (BMBF) is pleased to invite you to the launch of its research project:

Mapping and Transforming: An interdisciplinary analysis of city maps as a visual medium of urban transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939–1949

on Wednesday, 27^th January 2021 at 2.30 pm (CET) via Zoom

The Fifteenth Global Studies Conference (BLENDED), University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 21-23 July 2022. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, virtual lightning talks, virtual posters, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes:

Theme 1: Networks of Economy and Trade

Theme 2: The Power of Institutions

Theme 3: Vectors of Society and Culture

Theme 4: Ecological Foundations

CONFERENCE SUBMISSION DEADLINES

European Center of Sustainable Development in collaboration with Canadian Institute of Technology will organize the 9th ICSD 2021 International Conference on Sustainable Development, with particular focus on Environmental, Economic and Socio-Cultural Sustainability.

The Conference theme : Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: Research, Practice and Education.

FFJ-Michelin Foundation Workshop: City logistics for sustainable and liveable cities

City logistics aims to balance the economic growth and environmental friendliness, safety and security in cities. This workshop is to present recent advances of the research in modelling, planning and implementing city logistics and discuss issues and innovative solutions associated with urban freight transport for sustainable and liveable cities.

In recent years, housing research has spurred a growing interest from architectural historians, theorists and practitioners alike. However, housing studies are still developed mostly outside the field of architecture. The discourse on housing is nowadays taken over mainly by developers, social activists, policy makers and administrators, who reason mostly under the pressure of immediate practicality.