Dr. David Coyles (Ulster University), Dr. Brandon Hamber (Ulster University) and Dr. Adrian Grant (Ulster University) have been selected to receive the 2024 Best Article in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award for their paper “Hidden barriers and divisive architecture: The role of ‘everyday space’ in conflict and peacebuilding in Belfast.” This award is sponsored...Read More
Dr. Noah Durst (Michigan State University), Meng Cai (Michigan State University and Technical University of Darmstadt), Jada Tillison-Love Porter (Michigan Municipal League), Huiqing Huang (Dynamic Map Platform North America), and Wisdom Henry (Michigan State University) have been selected to receive the 2024 Best Article in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award for their paper “The...Read More
Mychal Johnson (South Bronx Unite) has been selected to receive the 2024 Community Activist Award. Since the late 1960s, the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) has served as a professional organization for scholars and practitioners seeking to advance social justice and policy equity through timely analyses, and direct support of local residents and advocacy organizations. In...Read More
Dr. W. Dennis Keating (Cleveland State University) has been selected to receive the 2024 Contribution to the Field of Urban Affairs Award. This annual award honors an individual whose body of work has contributed to defining the field and furthering the intellectual and professional development of emerging scholars. AWARD COMMITTEE ASSESSMENT “We are pleased to...Read More
This summer, Meghan Gough (VCU), Kate Howell (UMD), Andrea Roberts (UVA) and Thaisa Way (Harvard/Dumbarton Oaks) will host Towards a People’s History of Landscape (pt. 2) in Richmond, VA this summer, June 12 – July 8, 2024. This workshop will bring together scholars from across the nation to explore alternative approaches to scholarship and teaching...Read More
We are seeking papers that contain thoughtful, rigorous research, analysis and commentary on housing deterioration and home repair, to the end of (1) initiating a broader national conversation on the significance of this issue in the larger framework of national housing policy, and (2) designing constructive policies and public resource allocations to combat housing deterioration...Read More
Thomas J. Vicino Named Dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Dr. Thomas J. Vicino has been named the next dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, effective March 4. Dr. Vicino currently serves as the associate dean of graduate studies in the College of Social Science...Read More
Reminder: your UAA membership includes access to both UAA Journals! Journal of Urban Affairs Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City We sent our updated membership list to Taylor & Francis earlier this week. ? If you selected “online access,” go to the T&F online and Register using the email address associated with your UAA...Read More
In Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom’s new book, The Changing American Neighborhood, they argue that the physical and social spaces created by neighborhoods matter more than ever for the health and well-being of twenty-first-century Americans and their communities. Challenging conventional interpretations of neighborhoods and neighborhood change, they adopt a broad, inter-disciplinary perspective combining theory with...Read More
DESCRIPTION More than half of the world’s population currently lives in cities and that number is expected to double by 2050. Creating sustainable cities is critical to the future of Canada and the world, and our collective response to climate change will be felt and fueled by our urban centres. We need cutting-edge research to...Read More
This book brings together the research and perspectives of twenty urbanists from Quebec and B.C. to trace the evolution of research on the city and the urban over the past decade. The interdisciplinary contributions feature questions core to urban studies in Montreal and Vancouver: housing and transportation, and more emergent questions related to urban indigeneity,...Read More
Faiza Moatasim published a new book, Master Plans and Encroachments. The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad. The book presents informality as a strategic conformity to official schemes and regulations. It highlights how the privileged and the underprivileged strategically use architectural techniques to support their informal claims to space. https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825206/master-plans-and-encroachments/Master Plans and Encroachments (30% discount code: PENN-FMOATASIM30)Read More
Webinar and Learning Session on “Amplified Harm: LGBTQ+ Disaster Displacement,” December 13th at 11 am PST, in collaboration with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other disaster experts. This webinar will present a new data analysis (the first of its kind) of the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey Natural Data Tables and found that...Read More
