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Category Archives: Events reports
Critical thinking on smartness, service providing and technology: YA sessions at UTC Palermo
Guest author: Dezsö Vajtho, Utrecht University, MSc Sustainable Development (LinkedIN). This post is a report from the two sessions organized by the AESOP Young Academics network during the Urban Thinker Campus, an event organzed by PUSH, included in the World Urban … Continue reading
Cities after transition: where are they, and where is the research about them?
It has been already 25 years since the great political change took place in the former socialist states, which has brought also numerous changes in the fields of urban and regional development. For a couple of years, scholars working on the … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, conference, dissemination
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The Mayors Adapt (Convenant of Mayors 2.0): toward a smart city.
It was held in Naples, the inauguration of Mayors Adapt initiative, commissioned by the Directorate General of the European Commission’s Climate Action and founded assuming the EU adaptation strategy to climate change. Mayors Adapt supports the cities, creating an opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Events reports, Sustainability and resilience
Tagged adaptation, anticipation, climate change, Europe, impact, Italy, Mayor Adapt, sustainability
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Differences and Connections: the YA conference 2015’s CfP is out!
We are very happy to announce that the Call for Paper for the IX conference of the Young Academics network is out. The conference will be in Palermo, Italy, on the days of March 23-26, 2015. The conference, Differences and Connections: … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, AESOP, Differences and Connections, Palermo, YA, YA conference
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Lessons learned from the World Urban Forum 7. Why the new Urban Agenda matters
By Irina Paraschivoiu (LSE) In June 2016, the United Nations will convene the Habitat III Conference which will set the agenda for international cooperation on urban issues for the next 20 years. And in April this year, the World Urban … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Events reports, Planning, city, and society, Sustainability and resilience
Tagged Cities for Life, compact city, equity, Habitat III, Lessons learned by in-between countries, Medellin, Millenium Development Goals, quality of life, sustainability, UN-Habitat, urban agenda, World Urban Forum, WUF
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More socialism for post-socialist urbanisations?
By Irina Paraschivoiu (LSE) & Fabian Wenner (LSE) After the demise of socialism in the 1990s, many Eastern European and Asian states saw a wave of privatisation of formerly public services and assets, from social housing to land itself. Planning, as … Continue reading
About Digital Scholarship (workshop)
On June 24, 2014, I had the pleasure to partake the Digital Scholarship workshop organised by Being Digital, a research project leaded by Chiara Carrozza at the Centro de Estudos Sociais of the University of Coimbra. The workshop was held … Continue reading
