The Nectar biannual Conference took place in São Miguel Azores with the support of the NECTAR Secretariat, the Portuguese Regional Science Association (APDR) and the Center for Economic Applied Studies of the Atlantic. It was a stupendous period of exchange of views on transportation, networking and accessibility. Moments that vivified the importance of trust and risk in any scientific meeting in a beautiful  island in the middle of nowhere. Many thanks to Aura, Elisabete and Susana.

Tomaz Dentinho

APDR President

The North American Regional Science Council is pleased to announce the inaugural issue of its newsletter. The newsletter can be found at  http://www.narsc.org/newsite/?page_id=417.

Also, please note that the abstract submission deadline for the 2013 NARSC annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia is JULY 1 and is fast approaching. The abstract submission portal can be found at  http://www.narsc.org/newsite/?page_id=64.

Neil Reid, Ph.D.
NARSC Executive Director

L’Université du Sud-Toulon-Var organise,les 17 et 18 octobre, les Cinquièmes doctoriades euro-méditerranéennes quiont pourobjetdedonneraux jeunes chercheurs, doctorants et jeunes docteurs, une occasion de présenteretvaloriserleurrecherche auprèsd’un public plus largequeceluideleurUniversitéd’origine.

Le LEAD organise dans ce cadre deux types d’ateliers :

1/Un atelier sur le thème qui sera privilégié cette année :« Inégalités des territoires et dynamiques économiques »

2/Un atelier portant sur le thème  « Développement économique et social des pays du Bassin Méditerranéen», en partenariat avec le GDR International du CNRS DREEM (Développement des Recherches Économiques Euro-Méditerranéennes).

Les propositionsde communication sont àretourner à doctoriades2013.lead@gmail.com  et à  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. auplustardle 1^er  septembre2013. Elles doivent se faire à travers l’envoi d’un article (éventuellement dans une version préliminaire) ou d’une version résumée longue (d’au moins 6-7 pages).

Notez que lesfraisdetransport etd’hébergementdesparticipantsretenus serontprisen chargepar l’organisation dans lalimite d’unauteur par article.

Vous trouverez l'appel à contributions ci-joint.

9TH CONGRESS "VIRTUAL CITY AND TERRITORY" - "CITY MEMORY PEOPLE"

Roma, 2-4 ottobre 2013

NEW DEADLINE CALL FOR PAPER

Dear colleagues

On the request of many people, we are pleased to inform you that has been extended to 28 June 2013 the deadline of the call for paper to the 9th International Congress on Virtual City and Territory, "City Memory People" (Roma 2, 3 and 4 October 2013).

You will find the information on the conference website (www.9cvtroma2013.com)

We look forward to your participation.

Best regards.

Organizing Committee

Mario Cerasoli (coordinatore) - Università Roma Tre (Italia)

Anna Laura Palazzo - Università Roma Tre (Italia)

Elena Battaglini - IRES Istituto Ricerche Economiche e Sociali (Italia)

Rolando Biere Arenas - UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (España)

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TIMETABLE

14.6.2013 -data limite invio / fecha límite de presentación / submission deadline ABSTRACT

28.6.2013 - nuova data invio / nueva fecha de presentacion / new submission deadline ABSTRACT

28.6.2013 - data limite invio / fecha límite de presentación / submission deadline POSTER

31.7.2013 - comunicazione accettazione / comunicación de aceptación / acceptance notice ABSTRACT e POSTER

1.8.2013 / 30.9.2013 - Registrazione al / Registración al / Registration to 9° CCTV Roma 2013

20.8.2013 - data limite versamento quota di iscrizione ridotta (RELATORI) / fecha límite de pago reducido cuota de inscripción (PONENTES) / payment deadline reduced registration fee (SPEAKERS)

15.9.2013 - data limite versamento quota di iscrizione (RELATORI) / fecha límite de pago cuota de inscripción (PONENTES) / payment deadline registration fee (SPEAKERS)

15.9.2013 - data limite versamento quota di iscrizione ridotta (UDITORI) / fecha límite de pago reducido cuota de inscripción (ASISTENTES) / payment deadline reduced registration fee (AUDITORS)

30.9.2013 - data limite versamento quota di iscrizione (UDITORI) / fecha límite de pago cuota de inscripción (ASISTENTES) / payment deadline registration fee (AUDITORS)

2-3-4.10.2013 - 9° Congresso Città e Territorio Virtuale "CITTA' MEMORIA GENTE" - Roma 2013

31.10.2013 - data limite invio articoli completi (Atti del Congresso) / fecha límite envío de trabajos completos (Actas del Congreso) / deadline sending full papers (Conference Proceedings)

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Mario Cerasoli

Coordinador del 9° Congreso Ciudad y Territorio Virtual

CIUDAD MEMORIA GENTE

Roma, 2-4 de octubre 2013

Communauté de communes: «Cluses, Arve et Montagnes»
INTERNATIONAL AWARD ON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
NOTICE OF COMPETITION

Article 1 – Introduction and purpose
La Communauté de communes «Cluses, Arve et Montagnes» publishes an international competition for an internationally recognised and distinguished prize on research and successful initiatives in promoting and supporting local development, particularly important and distinctive at international level. This aims to encourage scholars, experts, young researchers, public institutions, public and private subjects and businesses to enhance awareness of local development policies, by focusing on analytic tools and processes, and enhancing the capability to diagnose and compare them at international level.
The Award is divided into the following sections:
a) Section "essays" – This section is open to essays published in a volume in the last three years.
Internationally known scholars and experts can also take part in this section if their work has made a major contribution to the identification of development models, the interpretation of territorial development trajectories, and to promotion of ideas and project proposals of special significance for the advancement of local development strategies. The Award amounts to € 5,000.
b) Section "young researchers" - This section is open to young researchers, whose doctoral thesis presented and discussed in the last three years, is particularly innovative in its methodology and interpretive models and in analysing new relevant cases for local development that have produced effective intervention strategies. The Award consists in a scholarship which amounts to € 3,000. The evaluation panel can recommend publication of the winning thesis.
c) Section "territories" - This section is open to territories that stand out for their innovative actions that were essential for their social and economic transformation, by allowing them to overcome their backwardness, long declin and economic stagnation. The present notice is also open to those territories that have started/promoted an integrated or shared development process in one of the following issues: innovation, internationalization, human resources qualification, etc. – Eligible applicants are development agencies, public institutions, private associations, public-private partnership organizations, consortia and other organizations working on the implementation of local development strategies and policies.
d) Section "enterprises" - This section is open to those enterprises, both single and associated, which have developed initiatives or projects involving other actors of the territory in the following issues: innovation, internationalization, training and qualification of human resources, entrepreneurial development, social cohesion, productive chain integration, etc. (territorial responsibility of the enterprise).

Article 2 – How to participate
Participation in this competition is voluntary. You should send your application, fully completed and accompanied by the necessary documentation, to allow the evaluation panel to assess your proposal within the 30th Juin 2013, in three copies,to: Communauté de communes «Cluses, Arve et Montagnes», Mairie de Cluses, Place Charles de Gaulle, 74300 CLUSES (F).
The documentation needs to be submitted in one of the following languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. If the original documentation is available in a different language, you need to enclose a translation into one of the above mentioned languages.
The participation is confidential and may be presented by third parties.
The members of the judging board may directly submit nominations for the different sections of the Award.

Article 3 – Ineligible applications
Applications received after the expiration date of the present notice, wrongly filled because not in accordance with the rules of the notice or incomplete, will not be evaluated.

Article 4 – Assessment of the applications
An evaluation panel, appointed by the Communauté de communes: «Arves et Montagnes» and with four academic members and Professor Gioacchino Garofoli as the President, will evaluate the applications received within the expiration date. The evaluation panel will complete its assessment by 10th September 2013. Documents will not be returned.

Article 5 – Award cerimony
The Award ceremony will be held in Cluses (F) in the framework of the International Conference on Local Development scheduled for the second part of September 2013. Interested participants will be informed in due advance about the date and programme of the Conference.

Article 6 – Confidentiality of information
All information regarding the Applicants’ profile, enterprises, proposals and contents are considered strictly confidential and reserved.
All interested people looking for more information could address to the Communauté de communes «Cluses, Arve et Montagnes» at the following adress: Mairie de Cluses. Place Charles de Gaulle. 74300 CLUSES This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Zhenhua Chen, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Public Policy at George MasonUniversity, was selected as the winner of the Fourteenth Annual Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science. The Fellowship will provide one-year stipend of $30,000 to support Chen in his research entitled, Transportation and Regional Output in the Northeast Megaregion: A Spatial Econometric Computable General Equilibrium Assessment. Chen’s research seeks to contribute new ideas for infrastructure impact analysis by developing a CGE model with an integration of spatial econometric techniques to solve for spatial dependence. Chen’s approach is expected to be very robust since the parameters of factor substitution elasticity are exogenously estimated and the issue of spatial dependence is adequately controlled. The results of the CGE simulation are expected to be much closer to reality than by traditional methods. His research is supervised by Professor Kingsley Haynes of the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.

 The Fellowship is awarded in memory of Dr. Benjamin H. Stevens, an intellectual leader whose selfless devotion to graduate students as teacher, advisor, mentor, and friend continues to have a profound impact on the field of regional science. Fundraising efforts to increase the Fellowship’s endowment are ongoing. Donations should be sent to: The Stevens Fellowship Fund, First Financial Bank, 1205 S. Neil Street, Champaign, IL 61820 USA. Checks should be drawn to The Stevens Fellowship Fund. Donations may also be made by credit card through the NARSC website at  http://www.narsc.org/newsite/donations2.php.

The 2013-14 Stevens Fellowship competition was judged by a Selection Committee composed of: Antonio Páez, Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, chair; Lawrence Brown, Geography, Ohio State University;Tony Grubesic, Information Science and Technology, Drexel University; Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Economics, Brown University; and Laurie Schintler, Public Policy, George Mason University. The Stevens Fellowship Committee administrates the Stevens Fellowship Fund on behalf of the North American Regional Science Council; its members are: Ronald Miller, Chair; David Boyce, Secretary; Michael Lahr, Treasurer; Janet Kohlhase; and Neil Reid, Executive Director of NARSC.

The Committee thanks the 18 students who entered the competition this year, as well as their thesis supervisors. Faculty at all North American Ph.D. programs related to the interdisciplinary field of Regional Science are urged to encourage their best students to apply for the Fifteenth Annual Stevens Graduate Regional Science Fellowship. The winning student’s thesis research in the field of Regional Science will be supported during the 2014-2015 year with a one-year stipend of $30,000. The application deadline is February 15, 2014. Full submission guidelines will be posted at  http://www.narsc.org/bapp.html 

June 10, 2013

Regional Science Policy & Practice

© RSAI

Volume 5, Issue 2 Pages i - i, 149 - 262, June 2013

Special Issue: The new urban world – opportunity meets challenge

The latest issue of Regional Science Policy & Practice is available on Wiley Online Library

Issue Information

Issue Information (page i)
Article first published online: 4 JUN 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-7802.2013.01094.x

EDITORIAL PREFACE

The new urban world – opportunity meets challenge (pages 149–151)
Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Mark D. Partridge
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12000

ARTICLES

The new urban world 2050: perspectives, prospects and problems (pages 153–165)
Janet E. Kohlhase
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12001

In praise of megacities in a global world (pages 167–182)
Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12002

A study of Shanghai's development strategy to 2020 (pages 183–200)

Yizhi Wang, Hiroyuki Shibusawa, Edward Leman, Yoshiro Higano and Guoping Mao
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12003

Global challenges and local responses: creating a new urban world in the shrinking cities of the US industrial midwest (pages 201–217)
Sujata Shetty and Neil Reid
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12004

The future of non-metropolitan areas (pages 219–224)
Gordon F. Mulligan
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12005

The Swedish countryside in the neo-urban knowledge economy (pages 225–236)
Hans Westlund and Wolfgang Pichler
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12006

The declining role of the automobile and the re-emergence of place in urban transportation: The past will be prologue (pages 237–253)
Marlon G. Boarnet
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12007

Increasing returns to smart cities (pages 255–262)
Hans Lööf and Pardis Nabavi
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12008