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Friday 27th April 2012 - 10am-1pm
A panel discussion around the publication of Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis, Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World (London/New York: Routledge, 2012)
This half-day symposium will debate some key ideas around the issues of globalization and regionalism, using the presence of Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis to discuss their latest book about the subject. The event will be chaired by Murray Fraser, Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, and among the other contributors will be Dr Yat Ming Loo and Dr Tania Sengupta, both of whom also teach at the Bartlett, and Ricardo Agarez, PhD candidate >>> http://bit.ly/JXuE6M
To book, please send an email to Nadia O’Hare on: n.ohare@ucl.ac.uk
Entry is free, but tickets must be booked in advance.
G.04, Wates House
22 Gordon Street
London
WC1H 0QB
The Temporary City has received another very positive review on internet blog, The Pop-Up City, who describe Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams' new book as "a decent and thorough-full document that combines inspiring examples with interesting academic reflections."
Take a look at the Rural Futures Lab blog, where author, Dewey Thorbeck, writes about his new book, Rural Design: A New Design Discipline (Routledge, 2012).
On Wednesday 15th February 2012, Routledge attended the Urban Design Group (UDG) Awards in London, held at the prestigious 61 Whitehall in London. Routledge were very proud to be one of the sponsers for this event, with awards presented for Best Student, Best Public Sector Project, Best Publisher, Best Practice and Lifetime Achievement. We are delighted to announce that Responsive Environments was awarded this year's Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the Chair of the Urban Design Group, Amanda Reynolds, and our congratulations go to the authors, Alan Alcock, Paul Murrain, Sue McGlynn and Graham Smith, and editor Ian Bently.
New immigration rules, coming into place in April this year, will be enforcing that overseas Part II architecture graduates will have to be earning over £20,000 in order to stay living and working in the UK.
As Ray Tricker and Sam Alford publish the seventh edition of Building Regulations in Brief, the Government has launched a consultation for its new set of Building Regulations. Please follow this link to read more >>> bit.ly/yODsBp
Architect, award winning author, and dean of the University of Westminster, Jeremy Till, has been named as the new head of Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London. Please follow this link to read more >>> http://bit.ly/x0VJik
Leonardo Vazquez, one of the editors of the upcoming book "Diálogos", was recently chosen as the winner of the American Planning Association's 2012 National Planning Leadership Award for Advancing Diversity and Social Change in Honor of Paul Davidoff. For a link to all the award winners and more info please follow this link >>> http://bit.ly/zD4MtM
Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking was featured in Los Angeles Magazine last month, in an article entitled "Between the Lines", in which Shoup raises his arguments against free parking and his proposals for new ways that cities could regulate parking. Read more >>>
* This title is unfortunately not available for distribution in the USA and Canada by the Taylor & Francis Group.
Why urban CDMs is big news for city planners as well as climate campaigners
An article by Philip Monaghan, January 2012
