New book
A Modern Guide to National Urban Policies in Europe, 2021, Elgar Modern Guides. Edited by Karsten Zimmermann, Faculty of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Germany and Valeria Fedeli, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, DAStU-Politecnico di Milano, Italy
This book is the outcome of the collaboration set under the EURA working group on National Urban Policies. It tries to provide an overview and comparison of urban challenges and national urban policies in 13 European countries, addressing key issues such as housing, urban regeneration and climate change. The book covers Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Norway, Sweden, France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovakia, Italy, and Romania. It is the result of an initiative that emerged in the context of the European Urban Research Association during the annual conferences in 2018 and 2019 and the outcome of a Working Group promoted on this issue. The main aim of such initiatives is to promote research spaces, which can count on our ordinary research, rather than dedicated research findings. The book in this respect reflects one of the main aims of EURA, an interdisciplinary and international research association, born in the late nineties with the objective of promoting an open and constructive dialogue between theory and practice. We hope this book can provide our colleagues, from different disciplinary fields, looking at urban policies, interesting elements for further reflection and for feeding new research projects and working groups, dealing with the many open questions and dilemmas this books highlights.
It cab be downloaded with a free open source licence, here
Open positions and jobs
The Department of Architecture of Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano (DASTU), with the contribution of Associazione di Fondazioni e Casse di Risparmio Italiane SpA (ACRI) announces the call for n. 7 Visiting Young Investigator in the context of the Planning for Social Justice Conference that will be held the first week of October 2021.
Deadline for application:
27 June 2021
The 2021 program includes
• The participation in the International conference Planning for Social Justice, which will take place the first week of October in Milan or eventually on line
• The active participation in other seminars related to the main conference, which will take place during the visiting period and anyway by the end of the year 2021;
• A visiting period of minimum one month as researcher in one of the leading Italian universities participating in the program, which are located in the cities of Milan, Turin, Florence, Palermo, Venice, Rome, Naples.
The candidates will have the opportunity to work in internationally recognized research centers of Architecture and Planning within the following universities: Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani (DAStU); Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Architettura (DIDA); Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio (DiST); Università degli studi di Palermo, Dipartimento di architettura (D’ARCH); Università IUAV di Venezia, Dipartimento di culture del Progetto; Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Architettura; Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Pianificazione, design, tecnologia dell’architettura. (see Annex 1).
7 full reimbursements of minimum € 2.400,00 for each successful candidates.
The opportunity to publish a paper in a book and/or in the journals of the universities departments after the Conference and the visiting period. The papers will undergo through a peer review process.
The opportunity to watch remotely the kick-off meeting of the Planning for Social Justice Conference which has taken place the 14 of May 2021, during which the research centers will be introduced.
https://www.dastu.polimi.it/planning-for-social-justice-yitp/