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World Congress of Planning Schools Will Meet in Shanghai in July, 2001 Based on the
highly successful experience of the joint ACSP-AESOP conferences in Oxford in
1991, and Toronto in 1996, four regional associations of planning schools are
jointly organizing a World Planning Schools Congress. The meeting is co-sponsored by ACSP and AESOP, along with the
Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA) and the Australia-New Zealand Planning
Schools Association (APSA). The Congress will
be held in Shanghai from July 11-15, 2001.
The local host is the Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban
Planning. The Congress will meet on
the beautiful Tongji campus. In
addition to paper sessions, roundtables, and displays, the program will include
mobile workshops in Shanghai and the surrounding area, as well as a variety of
cultural events for participants and their guests. The local hosts have also organized a number of
post-Congress tours – both historical/cultural and planning focused. The Chair of the
Steering Committee for the Congress is Louis Albrechts from AESOP.
Other members are Anthony Yeh from APSA, Steve Hamnett from ANZAPS, and
Mike Hibbard from ACSP. The Congress is
the first event of its kind – an opportunity for planning educators from
around the globe to exchange research and pedagogical perspectives.
The general theme is Planning for Cities in the 21st Century:
Opportunities and Challenges. The
theme allows for papers on a wide variety of topics.
To help provide some conceptual structure, conference organizers have
identified the following tracks: The Role of
Cities and Regions in Globalization For detailed
information, including instructions on submitting abstracts, check the Congress
website at www.caup-tongji.org/wpsc2001.
You can also reach the Congress website through the ACSP website at http://www.uwm.edu/Org/acsp/.
Or contact Mike Hibbard at mhibbard@oregon.uoregon.edu. |
