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Statement on
Charlottesville
The Cyberhood's mission is to encourage critical
thinking about the plight of communities of color, conditions in the inner
city, and the problems of low-wage workers. The website's goal is to
connect students, scholars, practitioners, and activists from across the racial
and class divide in order to build meaningful relationships. It is our belief
that the building of such connections will strengthen the struggle to
understand and transform inner cities and the metropolitan regions of which
they are a part.
In keeping with the Cyberhood's mission, we condemn
recent instances of violence spurred by racism, anti-Semitism, and hatred in
Charlottesville, VA. We see these views as symptomatic of more general forms of
intolerance and discrimination that are detrimental to historically disenfranchised
groups in our society. To counter these views, we stand in solidarity with those
who seek to expose bigotry and intolerance. We encourage public discourse aimed
at their eradication and reaffirm the Cyberhood as an instrument to reach this
end.
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
TBA
Study Abroad:
TBA
PhD Programs:
Doctoral Assistantships in Planning, Design, and the Built
Environment at Clemson University
The College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities at Clemson
University is accepting applications for five assistantships
for
the pursuit of the Ph.D. degree in Planning, Design, and the
Built Environment. The assistantship provides a stipend of
$18,800
payable per year plus tuition remission, and may be renewed
for up to two years.
Our faculty have advanced degrees in
applied economics, architecture, construction management, civil
engineering, history, landscape architecture, parks, recreation and
tourism, planning, political science and geography. This diversity allows
students to pursue a variety of research interests.
The objective of the program is to prepare a new generation of
academics and professionals to deal with the diverse and complex
issues relating the future of our built environment. The program
is interdisciplinary drawing a core from the fields of architecture,
landscape architecture, planning, real estate development,
historic preservation and construction science. We
have identified
focus areas of: Regional/Community Development and
Design; Built
Environment and Health; Restoration, Sustainability and
Land Ecology;
and Architectural Design, Technology and Construction
Processes.
It is expected that graduates of this program will be well
prepared to
address increasingly complex issues relating to human settlement
patterns and the built environment.
We have a rolling admissions process, but will begin reviewing applications in January
2019.
Clemson University, the land grant University of South Carolina and a
Top 25 US Public
University, has an enrollment of over 25,000 students
of whom over 5,000 pursue advanced degrees in 74 different
areas of
graduate studies. Strategically located within a few miles of
Interstate 85,
mid-way between Atlanta, Georgia, and Charlotte, North
Carolina, Clemson
offers easy access to major urban centers, coastal areas and the
Appalachian mountains.
More information about the University can be found at our web site at
http://www.clemson.edu
and details about the PhD program at
http://www.clemson.edu/caah/pdbe/
Contact Professor Mickey Lauria for additional information on the program.
Mickey Lauria, Ph.D.
Director of Planning, Design and the Built Environment
Professor of City and Regional Planning
Lee Hall 2-315
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634
864-656-0520
[email protected]
Department
of Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo.
The PhD program in Urban and
Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. The doctoral program offers
diverse research and learning opportunities.
Our graduate students have the
opportunity to engage with several centers and labs that are exploring the
cutting edge of planning scholarship. These include the UB Regional Institute,
Urban Design Project, Center for Urban Studies,
Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, Center for Architecture
and Situated Technologies, Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab,
Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water (RENEW), and the Global
Health Equity Community of Excellence. These research centers and labs connect
students with faculty with research interests similar to their own and unique
opportunities to pursue focused research at an advanced level. The program also
encourages students to explore other research centers and interdisciplinary
studies across the University at Buffalo, one of the nation's premier centers
for academic excellence and the most comprehensive, research-intensive
university within the 64-campus SUNY system.
Applications are invited from
highly qualified and motivated doctoral candidates interested in pursuing a
career in research and teaching. Selected candidates will be considered for
tuition remission and a competitive stipend. Admitted PhD students may also be
considered for competitive financial awards available through sponsored
research projects. Candidates must have strong analytical and writing skills.
Additional information about the program is available at:
http://ap.buffalo.edu/academics/graduate-degrees/phd.html
Call for Manuscripts and Papers:
Call for Chapter Proposals
Handbook of Quality of Life and Sustainability: Socio-spatial and
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Editors: Javier
Martinez, University of Twente, Claudia Mikkelsen, National University of Mar
del Plata, and Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University.
The aim of the Handbook
of Quality of Life and Sustainability: Socio-spatial and Multidisciplinary
Perspectives is to present different studies related to quality of life and
sustainability taking into account socio, economic, environmental, and
political/governance aspects as well as specific socio-spatial contexts. To
achieve this aim and to provide a multidisciplinary perspective, the chapters
include authors from various disciplines, geographical contexts (Global South
and North), and from different stages of their academic career.
The varying cultural and socio-spatial contexts of the
authors in the selected applications and cases contribute to a first-hand
knowledge on the quality-of-life realities and sustainability. Methodologically,
the authors apply a wide diversity of methods and tools, which facilitates a
unique understanding of the interlinkages between quality of life and
sustainability. It is in this way that the handbook will provide a multiplicity
of disciplinary perspectives. Some chapters include a policy dimension
providing a link to policy and practice.
The chapters will be grouped in three main sections:
concepts and foundations; tools, techniques, and applications; and innovations.
The editors will provide an introduction of relevant basis of sustainability.
However, since there is not a common understanding on the definition of
sustainability and its dimensions, the authors will be asked to provide their
own view and theoretical approximation, in particular on how these dimensions
play out in relation to quality of life. The combination of sustainability and
quality-of-life concepts and perspectives help to appreciate and unravel the
multi-faceted nature of human, urban/spatial development.
Keywords: sustainability,
social spatial, environment, geographical perspective, mixed-methods,
multidisciplinary perspective, urban environmental quality, spatial
inequalities.
Researchers from
around the globe are invited to share their work on this important topic of
sustainability and quality of life, bringing together a diverse array of
disciplinary perspectives. Those working in the areas of sustainable development,
environmental, social and economic sustainability, urban and regional planning,
geography, development studies, natural hazards studies, public policy,
community development, economics, community and social psychology will find
this volume particularly useful for the array of research and analytical
approaches presented.
Chapter proposals are invited on all related topics
within sustainability and quality of life including concepts of social,
cultural, governance, economic and environmental sustainability, quality of
life implications and relations to sustainability (for example, spatial inequalities,
urban environmental quality, environmental justice); measurements (subjective,
objective and aggregate) and assessments -including but not limited to- mixed
methods, geographic and socio-spatial perspectives; and research on policy and
practice applications illustrating the concepts of sustainability and quality
of life. It is our intent to invite junior and senior scholars from around the
globe to provide multidisciplinary and innovative insights to serve as a useful
resource.
Submit chapter proposals
to us at: [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]
Proposals
should include proposed chapter title, keywords, an abstract of up to
500 words, and author(s)' affiliations and short (1/3 page) biographies.
(Chapters can be up to 35 pages in length, and it is anticipated that the
volume will include around 30 chapters total). The proposed schedule is as
follows:
Deadline abstract chapter proposals: November 30, 2018
Decisions
provided to authors: January, 2019
Chapter
manuscripts due: June 30, 2019
Revisions and
final preparation: July-October, 2019
Publication: April 2020
To be published in the ISQOLS/Springer Handbook Series, target date: April
2020
Award Nominations:
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Position Announcements:
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Other Announcements:
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Special Announcement
UPSILON SIGMA (ΥΣ)
A New Student
Recognition and
Professional
Development Opportunity
The Urban Affairs Association has established the first international
honor society to recognize the academic achievements of undergraduate and graduate
students pursuing degrees in urban studies and related
fields.
Urban Studies is a broad umbrella term for academic programs and research
that focus on the social, political, economic, spatial, physical,
historical, cultural, and environmental dynamics of urban contexts.
Elements of urban studies can be found in several different disciplines,
as well as within explicitly interdisciplinary fields such as urban
affairs and urban planning. Given the varied academic homes for urban
studies, eligibility for participation in the Society will be judged on
the basis of individual program attributes.
We invite applications
from academic units to establish chapters of Upsilon Sigma.
Each year, there will be two application periods, one in the Fall, and
the second in the Spring. For the 2018 calendar year, we have established
the following application periods:
Spring 2018
Application Period
- April 2—Application due to the UAA Executive
Office
- May 15—Application review decisions completed
Fall 2018
Application Period
- November 1—Application due to the UAA Executive
Office
- December 15—Application review decisions completed
Basic
Requirements to Establish an Upsilon Sigma Chapter
- Successful chapter application
- Annual UAA Institutional Membership (dues are
$345 per year)
- Student induction fees (one-time induction fee of
$35 per student)
Full details on the application process and requirements
are now available on the UAA website: | | |
For more information about Upsilon Sigma visit this link
https://urbanaffairsassociation.org/upsilon-sigma/
Urban Affairs Association (UAA)
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