Please find attached the Call for abstracts/papers for the Trends and Challenges on Human Resource International Workshop, which will take place in October 23-24 2014 at ISAG - European Business School, Porto, Portugal.

Abstracts and papers should be submitted to the following email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For more information about the conference and the updates please visit: http://www.economicsofeducation.com/en/conferences/workshops/.

You are all invited!!!!

Looking forward to hearing from you, we send you our best regards

Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Tenure-Track Positions in Urban and Regional Planning
July 2014

The Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) is seeking to expand its program with a tenure-track
faculty position. The position is open-rank – both junior and senior academics may apply. The appointment can start in October 1, 2015 or later. Salary and compensation are compatible with Israeli university standards.

Qualifications
The successful candidate will have demonstrated exemplary scholarship and teaching in his/her field (as compatible with his or her academic rank). Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree in economics, urban planning or in a related field with an academic background and focus on economics.

We are especially interested in candidates specializing in:
- Urban and regional economics
- Housing and real estate economics
- Spatial statistics, spatio-temporal and data-driven analyses of decision making in spatial planning

Successful candidates will be expected to teach graduate-level economics courses for planners, supervise Master’s theses and Ph.D. dissertations, conduct cutting-edge
research, and participate in Faculty (school) and university-wide activities. The rank will be determined in accordance with the candidate's record and accomplishments.
Prior knowledge of Hebrew is not necessary and teaching may be conducted in English.
About the Technion and the Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning 

The Technion is the leading university of science and technology in Israel and is regarded among the top institutions of its kind worldwide. In the past decade, three of its faculty members won two Nobel prizes. The Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning (within the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning) was founded in 1969. It is the only planning program in Israel offering a Master’s and PhD planning degrees accredited by the Council for Higher Education. The Program was the first program to join the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) as a corresponding member, and the first non-European program to join the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). Currently there are 140 M.Sc students and 30 Ph.D. students at the program.

The Technion is located in Haifa in the green Mount Carmel area in the northern part of Israel with breathtaking views. The city offers excellent housing, education and

other public services and high quality of life. The City is the locus home of much of Israel’s renowned high tech industry.

For more information about our graduate studies, please see the faculty web site at:
http://architecture.technion.ac.il/en/

Applicants should submit the following materials in both electronic and hard copy:
1. Letter of interest describing the research areas, teaching experience and future interests.
2. Curriculum vitae including list of publications.
3. Names and contacts of three potential referees.

The review process will start on November 1, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled.

Applications should submit to Dr. Pnina Plaut Program Chair
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, 32000 Israel

Dear NECTAR friends,

Please find enclosed the call for paper for the next NECTAR 2015 International Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America.

You can also find more information about this event in www.taubmancollege.umich.edu/nectar

All specific inquiries about this conference should be forward to the local organizer Jonathan Levine: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Kind regards

Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR secretary

CALL FOR PAPERS: Geocomputation 2015

On behalf of the organizing committee, I am delighted to invite you to participate in the GeoComputation 2015 conference. The conference will be held at the University of Texas at Dallas from May 20-23, 2015. The conference encourages diverse topics related to novel methodologies and technologies to enrich the future development GeoComputation.

Abstract submission for oral and poster presentations is scheduled to open on October 1, 2014. 

For detailed information, please visit the conference website (http://www.utdallas.edu/geocomputation). Any questions can be directed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Best regards, 
Yongwan Chun

The University of Texas at Dallas

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite researchers, scientists and experts to participate in the 14th Ernestas Galvanauskas’ International Scientific Conference„RETHINKING REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS“, which will be held on 27th – 28th November, 2014 in Siauliai, Lithuania.

Please find the attached invitation.

More information: http://www.su.lt/smf/galvanauskas-en

Registration deadline – October 1, 2014.  

We kindly ask you to forward this information to other colleaguesthat may be interested in the conference.

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this mail.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

Best regards,

Conference Organizers 

‘Bridging the Implementation Gap of Accessibility Instruments and Planning Support Systems’– is the topic of the next conference organized by http://citta-conference.fe.up.pt/link_icon.gif); background-position: 0px 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">CITTA - Research Center for Territory, Transport and Environment, held at the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University on the 24th of October 2014.

This year's edition will be joined with the Final Conference of the COST Action TU1002 on ‘Accessibility Instruments for Planning Practice in Europe’, sharing the second day of this event (for more information click http://citta-conference.fe.up.pt/link_icon.gif); background-position: 0px 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">here).

Theme of the conference

Although the development of instruments for planning support dates back much further, the concept of Planning Support Systems (PSS) appeared in the planning literature in the mid-1980s. In the last decades, planning research and literature has witnessed a significant proliferation of PSS. Regardless of this, very few of the developed PSS are actually used in practice. Literature suggests that a fundamental dichotomy between supply and demand of information and models to support planning practice could be the main reason for this phenomenon. On the one hand, planning practitioners – the potential users of these instruments – are generally unaware of and inexperienced in the use of them. On the other hand, the authors of these instruments have, in general, little awareness of the related demand requirements in the complex planning context in which these instruments have to be applied.

This conference aims to bring together a wide range of Planning Support Systems (PSS) in an embracing debate on their implementation gap in planning practice. In addition to collecting a number of PSS, the conference aims to discuss the usefulness of PSS in planning practice from a dual perspective – author/practitioner – looking for recommendations to support the design of more useful PSS in the future. 

Being joined with the Final Conference of the COST Action on Accessibility Instruments in Planning Practice, the CITTA conference will gain from the presentation of the outcomes and findings of European and Australian wide research on usability of accessibility instruments, opening, at the same time, the debate to other (non-accessibility-based) PSS, such as those dealing with environmental, land use and transport planning issues.
 

Keynote speakers

on the 24^th of October (2^nd day of the joint event; day of the 7^th CITTA conference)

Marco te Brömmelstroet - University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Marco te Brömmelstroet holds the position of Assistant Professor in urban planning at the University of Amsterdam. His teaching and research focuses on the relation between land use and mobility. Recent research focussed on the usability of planning support systems for integrated urban strategy making processes. The role of transport models, accessibility instruments and cost benefit analyses in decision-making are central in his research interests.

Paulo Pinho - University of Porto, Portugal

Paulo Pinho is Full Professor of Spatial Planning at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, founder and Director of CITTA, the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, and Director of the PhD Programme in Spatial Planning, a joint initiative of the Universities of Porto and Coimbra. His recent research focuses on urban metabolism and low carbon cities, urban morphology and metropolitan dynamics, shrinking cities and new forms of urban space production.

Cecília Silva - University of Porto, Portugal

Cecília Silva is Assistant Professor at the University of Oporto. Her main research activities are focussed on Mobility Management, Accessibility Planning and Planning Support Instruments. She has developed a decision support tool for mobility management based on the concept of structural accessibility. She is the chair of a COST Action on Accessibility Instruments in Planning Practice. Her research activities have led to books, book chapters and a number of papers in international journals and conferences.

Stan Geertman - University of Utrecht, The Netherlands to be confirmed

Additional Keynote Speakers 

on the 23^rd of October (1^st day of the joint event)

Susan Handy - University of California, Davis, USA

Susan Handy is Chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and the Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation at the University of California, Davis.  Her research interests center on the relationships between transportation and land use, particularly the impact of neighborhood design on travel behavior.  She is a member of the Committee on Women’s Issues in Transportation of the Transportation Research Board and is an associate editor of the newly launched Journal of Transport and Health.

Karst Geurs - University of Twente, the Netherlands

Karst Geurs is Full Professor of Transport Planning at the Centre for Transport Studies, Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands. His research focuses on accessibility analysis and modelling, land-use and transport interactions, transport policy evaluation and sustainable transport.  He has over 20 journal publications and many other publications. He is the current president of NECTAR (Network of European Communications and Transport Activities Research).

Angela Hull - Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom

Angela Hull holds the Chair in Spatial Planning at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh UK. In her early career she worked as a local government town planner followed by a period in consultancy. She has worked in academia for the last 25 years teaching town planning and urban management. Her research spans across governance and organisational behaviour in sustainable urban management particularly examining the institutional triggers to changed approaches in transport, energy, and housing.

Carey Curtis - Curtin University, Australia to be confirmed

Organizing Committee

Cecília Silva (Chair), Paulo Pinho, Anabela Ribeiro, Paulo Conceição, Ana Amante, Miguel Lopes, Tiago Patatas, Ana Sousa

Scientific Committee

Álvaro Seco, António Pais Antunes, Cecília Silva, Isabel Vazquez, Luca Bertolini, Marco te Brömmelstroet, Nuno Pinto, Paulo Pinho

More info at: http://citta-conference.fe.up.pt/

Workshop: 'Transience and Permanence in Urban Development'

 University of Sheffield, January 2015

Organisers: Prof. John Henneberry and Dr. Simon Parris

Please see attached call for abstracts for a small, research intensive workshop examining transience and permanence in urban development. 

Proposals are invited for original papers to be presented at the workshop and subsequently to be considered for inclusion in a significant joint publication.

Post-industrial cities have experienced a dramatic growth in vacant/derelict land and buildings, raising questions about how such sites may be used temporarily for social, economic or environmental benefit, and about how these transient uses may affect the long-run trajectory of urban development. A burgeoning literature on temporary uses has evolved. However, this field is in need of consolidation and development. The aim of the workshop is to provide an opportunity for critical reflection on transience and permanence in urban development. 

The deadline for applications is 14 July 2014. Decisions on the workshop invitations will be made by 28 July. Full papers will be required by 31 December 2014.

Reasonable expenses of lead authors will be met. Other authors are free to attend at their own expense. 

Please see attached call for full details.