From urban sprawl to compact green cities

Call for Papers of Special Issue on From urban sprawl to compact green cities – indicators for multi-scale and multi-dimensional analysis

This Special Issue for the Journal of Ecological Indicators(www.journals.elsevier.com/ecological-indicators) aims to show up the current international state of art in developing, testing and implementing multi-dimensional (ecological, economic, social) and multi-scale (regional, city, neighborhood) indicators characterizing spatial processes and strategies dealing with urban sprawl and compact green cities for sustainable urban development. more….

Urban Planning Journal (Volume 1, Issue 3)

Deadline for Abstracts: 29 February 2016
Deadline for Full Papers: 15 May 2016
Issue Release: September 2016

Information: This issue of Urban Planning will be dedicated to Sustainable Planning & Technologies. more…

NOT MY HERITAGE: New Identities/Voices in Conservation

Not My Heritage is a one-day student-run symposium exploring the following questions:

Whose heritage are we conserving?
Whose heritage is being unrepresented or underrepresented in the heritage conservation discourse of the 21^st century?

This theme aims to attract submissions that critically address missing identities and voices in the heritage field and/or highlight alternative stories and perspectives in heritage conservation. more…

23rd International Seminar on Urban Form

The theme of the 23rd International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) is ‘Urban Morphology and the Resilient City’. The organizers and the Council of ISUF invite participation in the Conference by interested academics and professionals. Topics on which proposals are particularly welcome include: urban morphological theory, urban morphology and urban design/planning, urban morphology and sustainability, transformation and resilience in urban development, cities in the global era, urban form in Asia, and comparative urban morphology.

Further details: isuf2016@nju.edu.cn

Call for Entries: Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, 2nd Edition

Oxford Brooks – Expressions of interest to contribute to the second revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World are now invited. more….

Call for Workshop Organizers

The Design & The City conference explores citizen-centered design approaches for the smart city, addressing how social media, big data and other digital technologies may contribute to more sustainable, liveable and sociable urban communities. Specific focus of the conference is on the expanding role of designers as initiators, innovators, campaigners, connectors, organizers, critics and imagineers of alternative urban futures.

We are inviting proposals from designers, activists, researchers, media labs, and others for workshops to be held on April 22, 2016. Workshops are unique opportunities for engaging practitioners, researchers and conference attendees in a productive discussion. more…

Design After Planning: Examining the Shift from Epistemology to Topology

The question of how different types of ‘planning’ should deal with uncertainty has taken on fresh importance. On the one hand, existential threats such as climate change, overpopulation, and new forms of global conflict expand the temporal and spatial horizons of our sense of responsibility as never before. On the other, the world is constructed increasingly as emergent, complex and non-linear; the ‘wicked’ problems it throws up are not amenable to modernist, top-down solutions. more….

Inheriting the City: Advancing Understandings of Urban Heritage

Update 15/10/15: We have received a fantastic response to the first call for papers, drawing responses from over 35 different countries and a diverse range of disciplines including architecture, urban planning, heritage management, tourism studies and many more. The second call for papers is now open more….

Creative Placemaking and Beyond: Continuing and re-invigorating the arts-led conversation.

Final Call for Papers. Deadline Sun 25th Oct, 2015

This session will continue the interrogation of notions of creative placemaking started at the RGS 2015 annual conference, aiming to take this conversation to the US and broaden international and sectora/practice discussion.

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Mediated Cities

Intellect Books will launch its ‘Mediated Cities’ book series with three volumes at the conference ‘Digital-Cultural Ecology and the Medium-Sized City’, April 2016. Bristol, UK.

The first volumes are:

Digital Futures and the City of Today: New Technologies and Physical Spaces. ISBN: 978-1-78320-560-8
Filming the City: Urban Documents, Design Practices & Social Criticism Through the Lens. ISBN: 978-1-78320-554-7
Imaging the City: Art, Creative Practices and Media Speculations. ISBN: 978-1-78320-557-8

The series is a cross disciplinary investigation of the modern, technologically laden, urban experience – its design, planning, representation, visualisation etc. It welcomes contributions from the perspective of urban design, planning, cultural studies, digital art, emerging technologies, social media, film, photography and more.

For details on the publications, see:
http://architecturemps.com/publications-2/