Before the usual news survey from all over the world, two new interesting issues available online:
The Newsletter of the Commonwealth Association of Planners
Issue 8 of the CAP Newsletter is now available at:
http://www.commonwealth-planners.org/capnews/capnews8.pdf
Café de las ciudades - conocimiento, reflexiones y miradas sobre la ciudad. año 2 - número 4-5 - febrero/marzo de 2003
http://www.cafedelasciudades.com.ar/

Then the world news from Australia, Brasil, Canada, Mexico, and finally U.S.A.


australia

3rd National Australian Housing Conference 26-28 November 2003 Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide
The third Australian National Housing Conference will focus on options for addressing housing needs into the future.

The Conference is hosted by the South Australian Department of Human Services and the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. The Conference will debate important issues for Australia's housing system by showcasing key research findings from a range of researchers and innovative policy and practice across all housing sectors. It is anticipated that between 600-800 delegates from all spheres of government, the housing industry, community housing sector, housing academics and housing customers from around Australia and overseas will participate. Conference details including are now available from the Conference web site at www.nationalhousingconference.org.au
Further Information: Plevin and Associates Pty Ltd - events@plevin.com.au

Planning Institute of Australia's national planning congress "Leading with diversity". Adelaide, South Australia, 31 March - 2 April 2003
The congress will explore ideas on cultural, social, economic and environmental diversity in Australia's cities and regions, as well as providing delegates with a range of contemporary international perspectives.
Leading international and Australian practitioners from planning and other disciplines will discuss the challenges of planning for diverse societies and environments. Key issues will include:
- planning for diverse societies - Australian and international experience
- the planning implications of an ageing population
- indigenous planning issues
- environmental ethics and planning practice
- integrated strategic planning - how much have we achieved?
- ecological sustainability and economic development
- social and environmental issues in Asian cities.
Web site: http://www.planning.sa.gov.au/congress/


brasil

8th International Coastal Symposia, SC, Brazil, from March 14 to 19, 2004
The 8th International Coastal Symposium web site has new information available:
- Conference Program (key note lectures)
- Conference Fees
- Accommodation
- Pre-registration
- Abstract Template Download Page
http://www.cttmar.univali.br/~ics2004/

canada

IFLA World Congress 2003 • Landscapes on the Edge • May 25-29 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The International Federation of Landscape Architects announces the 40th annual IFLA World Congress. The congresses support IFLA’s goal of bringing together those who are involved in environmental design and are addressed to all landscape architects, planners, architects, environmentalists, artists, students, governmental authorities and non-governmental organizations.
The 2003 Congress in Calgary, Canada, is an exciting opportunity to exchange knowledge, skills, experiences and solutions. The Congress theme will focus on "Landscapes on the Edge", and provides a forum for examining a range of topics related to our global landscape within the framework of theory, practice and technology.
Changes to the global landscape are staggering and unprecedented. Many of the urban, rural and suburban landscapes are threatened on the edge of irrevocable transformation. The profession of Landscape Architecture is well placed to address these important issues. The profession’s emphasis on natural processes, place making and the understanding of cultural imperatives can lead to physical solutions that are ecologically sensitive and socially relevant, improving environments around the world.
The International Federation of Landscape Architects 40th World Congress is about Landscapes on the Edge. Edge in the sense of places on the edge of territorial transformation as well as exemplar solutions that are on the cutting edge of theory, practice and technology.
The 2003 IFLA World Congress offers an outstanding selection of concurrent sessions consisting of papers reflecting the conference theme and sub-themes.
These include:
- Landscape Planning and Sustainable Environments
- Landscape on the Edge of Art
- The Canadian West - Landscapes on the Edge
- The Cutting Edge - Ideas, Technologies and Solutions
- Cultural Landscapes - Maintaining a Local Edge in the Global Community
- Urban Design on the Edge of Place Making
- Landscape Architecture - Pushing the Edge of the Profession http://www.ifla2003.com/home.htm


mexico

International Colloquium for Vernacular, Hispanic, Historical, American and Folklore Studies and The North South Colloquium, October 9, 10, 11, 12, 2003, in Puebla, Mexico, hosted by the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Autonomous University of Puebla.
Topics include anthropology, sociology, archaeology, gender, tourism and travel, Central America, communication, computing, culture wars, photography, psychology, Chicano and Chicana issues, Mexican History, art and architecture, the drug problem, linguistics, folklore, poetry and literature readings, music and performance, dance, film and television, food, computers, education, urban issues. Affiliated organizations include the Popular and American Culture Associations and their regional associations, Phi Beta Delta International, Blue Key International, the Mexican Caribbean Studies Association, Pan-American Vernacular Society, Lexington Press, Blackwells Publishers.
The website is: http://www.ipsonet.org/vernacular


u.s.a.

Denver — gateway to the West — will host the APA National Planning Conference, March 29-April 2, 2003.
More than 200 sessions presenting case studies of the best of planning around the country. Suburban corridor revitalization or rural land preservation. Financial impacts of compact development. Big city planning directors and consultants working with cutting edge technologies. Academic planners discuss downtown redevelopment and new planners reflect upon their training. Allied organizations present workshops on neighborhood smart growth tool kits, abandoned properties, and visioning software. Public agency planners present case studies on neighborhood planning, parkway revitalization, and light rail.
http://www.planning.org/2003conference/index.htm

Livable Places Announces Design Competition For Mixed-Use Sustainable Affordable Housing
Under the National Endowment for the Arts New Public Works Grant Program, Livable Places in conjunction with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation invites licensed architects to compete in a design competition for a Mixed-Use Sustainable Affordable Housing and urban design project.
Livable Places, Inc. has been established by a group of affordable housing advocates and environmentalists to promote a more livable and sustainable Los Angeles region. Livable Places’ mission is to provide more livable and sustainable affordable housing on problematic urban sites and to influence and change the vision of urban policy makers and voters. The competition calls for the urban design of approximately ten acres and the design and planning of Phase I. This will include approximately 50 units of for sale affordable sustainable housing, mixed-use commercial/retail and other site amenities.
Registration Deadline: March 28, 2003
http://www.livableplaces.org/news/nea.html

36th International Conference on Making Cities Livable Santa Fe, NM
April 13-17, 2003
http://www.livablecities.org/SantaFe.html

Capitals by Design: Architecture, the Arts, & Public Spectacle in St.
Petersburg & Washington, D.C., 1703-2003
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Conference Date: 2003-03-28
This interdisciplinary and international symposium will mark the 300th anniversary of the foundation of St. Petersburg and the 200th anniversary of the first stages of planning and building Washington D.C. Sessions will focus on the relationships of city planning and architectural styles to thefunctions and forms of government; the roles of official and unofficial cultures in the formation of civic identities; public and political spectacles in the capitals; and the emergence of distinctive artistic tendencies in the modern era. Keynote speaker is Dmitrii Shvidkovskii.
Other speakers include: Blair Ruble (Kennan Institute); James Cracraft
(University of Illinois-Chicago); Howard Gillette (Rutgers University); Ewa
Berard (CNRS, Paris); Karen Kettering (Hillwood Museum & Gardens); Richard
Stites (Georgetown University); Pamela Scott (National Building Museum);
Alison Hilton (Georgetown University); James Miller (George Washington
University); Alla Rosenfeld (The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers
University)
Contact information: Christine Zapotocky Kelleher Program & Outreach Officer
Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University
Email: guceres@georgetown.edu