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Reusing the Industrial Past Conference, August 10-15, 2010 Tampere, Finland.
Tornitaloja taivaanrannassa? Keskustelutilaisuus tornitalorakentamisesta pääkaupunkiseudulla ja suur-Tapiolan alueella maanantaina 26.10.2009 klo 16.00 – n. 19.00
50th Anniversary ACSP Conference, October 1-4, 2009
- Crystal City, Virginia
Reinvesting in America: The New Metropolitan Planning Agenda
24th AESOP Annual Conference, 7-10 July 2010, Helsinki
University of Technology, Finland
Space is Luxury
Urban Dynamics & Housing Change, Crossing
into the 2nd Decade of the 3rd Millennium
04 - 07 July 2010, Istanbul - Turkey
4th International Planning History Society Conference,
July 12-15, 2010, Istanbul
Urban Transformation: Controversies, Contrasts and Challenges
"Planning Pathways to the Future", New Zealand Planning Institute and Planning Institute of Australia, Christchurch, New Zealand, 20-23 April 2010
The Finnish Society for Urban Studies will organize a session in the joint conference of ICOHTEC – The International Committee for the for the History of Technology History and TICCIH – The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage to be held in Tampere, Finland on August 10-15, 2010. The conference theme is Reusing the Industrial Past. For more information on the conference, see http://www.tampere.fi/industrialpast2010/
Session abstract:
Values and Meanings in Urban Industrial Heritage
A starting point for all heritage conservation is assessing values and meanings. Recent years have seen a growing emphasis on value analyses among both scholars and practitioners of cultural heritage. Cultural values may be considered the traditional core of conservation, but recently also social and economic values have gained more ground as part of the valuation process. The difficulty in articulating heritage values stems from the fact that so many diverse values exist simultaneously, and that values change over time and in different societal contexts. Furthermore, it is widely held that cultural heritage operates at different levels of scale – local, regional, national and international – sometimes overlapping and complementary, sometimes conflictual and contested.
Building on these notions, this session will discuss the multi-vocal and multi-level articulation of values and meanings in reference to urban industrial heritage within a time span from the 1930's until today. In the past decades, the revaluation and reuse of old industrial areas have indeed become one of the key issues for many cities. What values have been identified in reference to urban industrial heritage, and how have these values evolved over time? How have old and new meanings been negotiated between different actors? What happens to cultural values at the time of rapid urban and industrial change? How does writing industrial history participate in the actual conservation of urban industrial sites? In the context of the session, the questions will be discussed both at more general level and through case studies.
Session organizers and chairpersons:
Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna, University of Helsinki & City of Helsinki, Finland, anja.nevanlinna (at) helsinki.fi
Tanja Vahtikari, Department of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere , Finland , tanja.vahtikari (at) uta.fi
Papers in the order of their presentation:
Tanja Vahtikari: Industrial Past in the World Heritage Valuation of Historic Cities
Marja Lähteenmäki: The Industrial Landscape of Verkatehdas Textile Mill Site in Tampere
Mia Hipeli: Modernism as National Phenomenon in the Sunila Industrial Community
Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna: The Use of History in Preservation Politics
Tornitaloja taivaanrannassa?
Keskustelutilaisuus tornitalorakentamisesta pääkaupunkiseudulla
ja suur-Tapiolan alueella
Hotelli Tornin rakennus hämmästytti korkeudellaan 1930-luvun Suomessa, mutta vasta vuonna 1976 valmistunutta Nesteen, nykyisen Fortumin pääkonttoria voi pitää maan ensimmäisenä varsinaista pilvenpiirtäjää muistuttavana talona. Viime vuosina pääkaupunkiseudulla on käynnistetty ja toteutettukin lukuisia tornitalohankkeita - ja lisää on luvassa. Korkealla rakentamisella on kiistatta vaikutuksia muun muassa kaupunkikuvaan ja internetin keskustelupalstoilla on viime vuosina käyty eduista ja haitoista vilkastakin keskustelua. Kokonaisnäkemyksiä korkean rakentamisen suunnittelusta ja ympäristövaikutuksista metropolialueella ei tähän mennessä juuri ole ollut esillä. Lokakuun viimeisellä viikolla järjestyy Tapiolassa mahdollisuus keskustella ja kuulla aiheesta asiantuntijanäköaloja yli pääkaupunkiseudun kuntarajojen.
Tilaisuuden järjestävät Espoon kaupunginmuseo, Suomen kaupunkitutkimuksen seura, Museovirasto ja Yhdyskuntasuunnittelun seura. Tilaisuuden puheenjohtajana toimii professori Raine Mäntysalo ja tornitalokaavoista alustavat eri alojen asiantuntijat pääkaupunkiseudun kunnista. Pyydetyissä kommenttipuheenvuoroissa edustettuina ovat tutkijan, viranomaisen ja asukkaan näkökulmat.
Ajankohta: ma 26.10.2009 klo 16.00 – n. 19.00
Paikka: Näyttelykeskus WeeGee, Espoon kaupunginmuseon Museopeda-luentosali,
Ahertajantie 5, Tapiola / www.espoonkaupunginmuseo.fi
OHJELMA
16.00 - 16.10 Tilaisuuden avaus, professori Raine Mäntysalo
16.10 - 16.30 Pilvenpiirtäjien vaellus Yhdysvalloista Eurooppaan,
museotoimenjohtaja Timo Tuomi
16.30 - 16.40 Kommenttipuheenvuoro, tutkija Silja Laine
16.40 - 17.00 Korkea rakentaminen Helsingin kaavoituksessa, kaupunkisuunnittelupäällikkö
Anneli Lahti
17.00 - 17.10 Kommenttipuheenvuoro, yli-intendentti Mikko Härö
Kahvitauko
17.30 - 17.50 Korkea rakentaminen Tapiolan kehittämisprojektin näkökulmasta,
projektinjohtaja Antti Mäkinen
17.50 - 18.00 Kommenttipuheenvuoro, ekonomisti Hannu Ranki
18.00 – 19.00 Keskustelu
Ennakkoilmoittautumisia toivotaan osoitteeseen anne.vuojolainen (at) espoo.fi
/ puh. 046 8773162
50th Anniversary ACSP Conference
October 1-4, 2009 - Crystal City, Virginia
Reinvesting in America: The New Metropolitan Planning Agenda
Local Hosts: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, University of Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University
Metropolitan issues came to the forefront in 2008 as the nation elected its first urban president in decades. Metropolitan areas, even many exurbs, strongly favored the Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Now President Obama promises a new metropolitan agenda complete with a just-created Office of Urban Policy. The administration also pushed for a significant reinvestment in all types of infrastructure ranging from traditional public works projects to cutting-edge green technologies.
The political environment in Washington may be the most favorable for planners since the Great Society era of the 1960s. It is timely that we recognize the 50th anniversary of ACSP at a moment when planning is once again on the rise and that we meet in the nations capital at a moment of expanding federal support.
More information is available at: http://www.acsp.org/events/conferences.html
Visit the IPHS homepage at www.planninghistory.org
"Space is Luxury"
24th AESOP Annual Conference
7-10 July 2010, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Conference Theme
In 2010, the world is clearly one that can be called urban. In relative terms, more than half of the worlds population dwells in urban settings about one billion under slum conditions.
Having quality space available equals commanding a luxury!
Planning and urban design are key factors in shaping and managing space and generate the wished for quality spaces. The concept of space and concomitantly that of spatial quality includes different meanings and dimensions. Space is physical, including architecture and urban form. Space is also socially constructed through various forms of human interventions. Space is contested and a reason for serious conflicts. Space is presented and space represents. For planning, the management of the competing uses for space requires complex interventions. The making of better places that are valued and have identity is an enduring ambition of planning. And, returning to the start of this brief reflection, the major challenge of spatial planning is to find solutions for a more sustainable urban millennium.
The Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at Helsinki University of Technology invites planning professionals to come to Finland and to discuss the manifold issues of space is luxury - and to explore the multitude of related planning issues.
Important Dates
Conference: 7 - 10 July 2010
Opening webpage: July 2009
Start of Registration
and Abstract Submission: October 2009
PhD Workshop: 1 - 4 July 2010
More details available on the conference website: http://aesop2010.tkk.fi/
Urban Dynamics & Housing Change
Crossing into the 2nd Decade of the 3rd Millennium
04 - 07 July 2010, Istanbul - Turkey
We invite housing and urban researchers to meet in Istanbul, the only city in the world located geographically on two continents divided by the Marmara Sea and its strait called the Bosphorus.
We are pleased to be able to organise the 22nd conference of the European Network for Housing Research in Istanbul at such an important time, and for two main reasons.
Firstly, Istanbul will be the cultural capital of Europe in 2010. Secondly, the year 2010 is important for everyone as we will be close to crossing into the 2nd decade of the 3rd millennium. This moment, by providing a unique opportunity to draw lessons from the past and formulate new housing research questions for the future, helped us to define not only the theme of the conference but also the structure of its plenary sessions which will bring together different housing and urban researchers to discuss these questions from their own points of view. Thus the main theme of the conference was defined as Urban Dynamics and Housing Change which will be elaborated by giving answers to three basic questions as follows: (1)Where are we now? (2) What does the future hold? (3) What should we do?
ENHR conferences have always created excellent opportunities for housing and urban researchers to exchange ideas and research findings, to establish networks within the wider European Network for Housing Research, and to encourage collaborative study. These networks within the ENHR are organised as Working Groups, and have shaped the Workshops of ENHR conferences.
There are 24 ENHR Working Groups, and as usual they will shape the workshop structure of the ENHR2010 Istanbul Conference. Every second year, ENHR Conferences include a New Housing Researchers Colloquium for PhD students. We are pleased to announce that an NHR2010 Colloquium will also take place in Istanbul on 1-3 July, 2010. We invite senior housing and urban researchers to advise their PhD students to follow the link provided on the website of ENHR2010 to reach the website of the NHR2010 colloquium.
We hope that the ENHR2010 Istanbul Conference will, once again, provide an interesting platform from which to identify the new housing research questions relevant to the next decade.
Conference Theme
The first decade of the 3rd millennium has seen a number of significant developments shaping urban dynamics and housing in different ways:
Technological advances, rooted in previous decades, they have increased both the number of internet users and their capabilities. Web-based commerce, social networking and e-governments have become indispensible parts of daily life. Technological advances make life easier and enhance economic growth on the one hand, while they create busier lives and less face-to-face relations in societies.
The September 11th attacks, bombings and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have together increased conflicts between urban dwellers of different ethnic and religious backgrounds. Furthermore, while security has become a significant concern, it has created other issues by placing limitations on mobility across borders and by lessening tolerance. This has made the issue of urban security a common concern among policy makers, academics and professionals who, from various disciplines, are engaged with urban and housing issues.
The term global warming has been replaced by global climate change, placing ever greater pressure on all nations to take collaborative measures to lessen its detrimental impact at global, regional and local levels. In addition, increased demands on natural resources and the risk of natural disasters have placed significant attention on their consumption.
The global neo-liberal winds have continued to influence urban and housing policies. Many cities have changed their appearance through real estate investments, with an increasing number of owner occupied dwellings and shopping malls encouraging consumption. While the changing face of cities highlights the need for regeneration projects, there has been an increasing debate within urban areas on the growing problems of new/urban poverty, social exclusion, gentrification, polarisation and housing market segmentation. Moreover, the global economic crisis, shaking local markets directly, shifted the direction of neo-liberal winds towards intervention by governments to solve the problems of national economies and to sustain the globalised world order.
Within these changes and dynamics, we need to look at cities, and specifically at housing issues, from both technological and political perspectives, complementing the three Es (efficiency, equity, ecology) of sustainability. Set against this background, the conference aims to answer the following questions:
Where are we now? How have urban environments and housing changed during the first decade of the 3rd millennium? What are the urban dynamics which have resulted from global developments? Do we now have greater polarisation among urban dwellers? What are the consequences of these developments for residential segregation? What is the role of urban planning, housing design and/or regeneration projects?
What does the future hold? What are the scenarios for future urban life
and housing with respect to efficiency, equity and ecology? How will new
technologies and innovations change the lives of urban citizens? What
are
the pre-requisites for sustainable urban life in economic, social and
ecological terms? What needs to be changed in order to achieve these objectives?
What should we do? What are our objectives for the 2nd decade of the 3rd millennium with respect to urban life and housing? How can the accumulated body of knowledge in the field of urban and housing studies be translated into strategies and into real life to create a better future for all? What are the implications for a new urban and housing research agenda for the next decade to close the existing knowledge gap and develop appropriate strategies?
The first plenary session will answer these basic questions locating the conference in the context of Turkey. The following pair of plenary sessions will bring together senior urban and housing researchers from different disciplines to discuss the possible answers to these questions. There will be three speakers and a discussant in each plenary session. The discussants will then act as speakers in the last plenary session to find answers to the last basic question- what should we do?
Important Dates
Online Registration Deadlines
Early Bird: 05 February 2010
Link closes: 10 June 2010
Online Submission Deadlines
Abstracts: 05 January 2010
Papers: 31 May 2010
4th International Planning History Society Conference
Urban Transformation: Controversies, Contrasts and Challenges
July 12-15, 2010
14th International Planning History Society Conference will take place in Istanbul between the dates July 12-15, 2010. The conference will address the theme of “Urban Transformation: Controversies, Contrasts and Challenges”.
The conference theme seeks to provide a window not only for a broad investigation of urban transformation aspects in Planning History across the world, but also for sharing professional and academic knowledge and expertise in Istanbul, in the European Capital of Culture 2010.
During the recent globalisation period, Istanbul has become the focus for a number of urban transformation initiatives, which have brought an unprecedented level of challenges in planning, urban governance, cultural and social structure, historic preservation and other areas.
More information: http://www.iphs2010.org/index.html
'Planning Pathways to the Future"
New Zealand Planning Institute and Planning Institute of Australia, Christchurch,
New Zealand
20-23 April 2010
The New Zealand Planning Institute and Planning Institute of Australia invite you to attend their 2010 International Planning Conference. The theme for the Conference is Planning Pathways to the Future. This Conference will explore future directions for planning and what pathways we need to take to change the way we plan, work and live in response to global issues.
The Garden City of Christchurch, New Zealand will be the delightful venue for one of the most important and rewarding Conferences of recent times. Join leading planning professionals from around the world to chart future pathways for sustainable, environmentally aware and economically responsible development at local, national and international levels.
It will be a memorable event with a full program of renowned speakers, a broad spectrum of relevant topics and the chance for you to be heard on the most important of all issues safeguarding the future of our communities and of new generations. This challenging theme, an extensive social calendar and a unique location in the world the famous beauty of New Zealands South Island make this the must attend event of 2010.
The 2010 International Planning Conference will focus on the economic, political and environmental challenges facing the profession. The four key sub-themes of the conference are:
Governance
Raising the Bar
Quadruple Bottom Line, and
Sustainable Infrastructure
Conference paper abstracts must be submitted by email to
abstracts@planningpathways2010.com by 18 September 2009.
For more details, download the call for abstracts below (the call for abstracts form opens in a new window as a PDF).
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