October 30, 2009
- During fall break CRP professors Michael Tomlan and Jeff Chusid accompanied 13 historic preservation and planning students to the annual meeting of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Nashville. Sustainability was the theme of this year’s conference. In addition to attending educational sessions, the HPP students manned the booth for the National Council for Preservation Education and spent time visiting the city’s historic sites. A stop was made on the trip down in Charlottesville, to tour Monticello and the University of Virginia.
- Associate Professor Jeffrey Chusid gave a lecture at the India International Centre in Delhi, India entitled “An Innocent Abroad: Joseph Allen Stein in India.”
- Chusid will also be speaking on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Freeman House at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Preservation Technology in Los Angeles.
- Assistant Professor Stephan Schmidt presented a pre-organized session for the ACSP Conference entitled “Public Spaces and the Role of the Planner.”
- Schmidt’s article titled, “Has planning in Germany changed? Recent developments in local and regional planning in Germany” was published in the European Planning Studies, vol.17(12)
- Visiting Lecturer Inaki Permanyer presented a paper jointly written with Professor Lourdes Beneria at the Development Sociology seminar series on “The Measurement of Socio-Economic Gender Inequality.”
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
- CRP Professor Susan Christopherson and Jennifer Clark (Ph.D. ’04) have won the 2009 Regional Studies Association Best Book Award for Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy. Their accomplishment will be recognized later this month at a luncheon in the House of Lords in London. The Regional Studies Association is an international forum for regional development and policy research based in the United Kingdom. RSA Awards
- Assistant Professor Stephan Schmidt recently completed an article, “Land Use Planning Tools and Institutional Change in Germany: Recent Developments in Local and Regional Planning,” which is forthcoming in the journal European Planning Studies. Schmidt coauthored the article, “Is Open Space Preservation a Form of Exclusionary Zoning? The Evolution of Municipal Space Policies in New Jersey,” which is to be published in the journal, Urban Affairs Review.
- Visiting Lecturer George R. Frantz presented a talk on "Tools for Planning for Agriculture" at the American Farmland Trust Planning for Farms, Food and Energy, at the Central New York Conference in Syracuse on March 25, 2009. View slides from Frantz's presentation
- Associate Professor Jeffrey Chusid led an international workshop for the World Monument Fund on the conservation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern College, at the school in Lakeland, Florida in April 2009. Read article
- Chusid’s book, Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity is forthcoming from WW Norton in 2010. His chapter, “Natural Allies: Historic Preservation and Sustainable Design,” will be published in Pragmatic Sustainability, also in 2010.
- Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes, the new book by Professor John Forester, CRP, was published this fall by Oxford University Press. In the book, Foster shows how skillful "facilitative leaders" and mediators have helped parties to settle daunting, apparently intractable disputes, and from their accomplishments he draws useful lessons for community leaders, managers, planners, and organizers as well.
