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Planner's Network Workshop at Gray Area Thursday, June 17, 1:30-3:30
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This festival has already passed, but it was unique and a huge success all around. Locative media allows for direct responsive interaction with the urban environment. Please see People page to read about the artists involved and check out the projects. There were some complex urban planning/design approaches to utilizing mapping, for example, registering all kinds of urban data and GAFFTA, hosting gallery, opened with a retrospective of data visualization by MIT Senseable Cities lab - they have incredible resources. It would be interesting to hear some responses to 'urban data' as a political idea from progressive urban planners and designers/thinkers.
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Lynne Elizabeth - Sun Jun 13, 2010 @ 12:50PM
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"Spatial justice, a proclaimed priority in many territorial policies, is a notion worthy of discussion and elaboration. It seems so obvious it has hardly been questioned. Yet it is as potentially fruitful as it is relatively unexplored. The objective of JSSJ journal is to provide an arena for research, debate and controversies around the idea. It builds on discussions started with the Spatial Justice conference held at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre in March 2008, and is a response to the need felt to share thoughts about the relations between justice and space, beyond disciplinary, linguistic and cultural boundaries. JSSJ is edited mostly by geographers but aspires to become a meeting place for representatives of many disciplines of the social sciences (geography, planning, urbanism, urban sociology, history, philosophy, political science…). This bilingual journal published both in French and English in electronic form twice a year aims to become an arena of international debate in spatial justice, in an interdisciplinary perspective. It is open to any practitioner of the social sciences who wishes to contribute: theoretical approaches and empirical case studies are welcomed. We hope they will establish social sciences as grounded in reason, and therefore socially relevant".

For more information, visit http://www.jssj.org.

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Javier - Sat Jun 12, 2010 @ 06:10PM
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UPDATED w/ LINKS FIXED | What should a public archival practice for researching military urbanism look or be like? Here is some info on the "Decoding Military Landscapes" participatory panel (see schedule for details). An agenda is posted here If you have any ideas of what might be links we'd want to check out, please tag them #demilit on Twitter. The panel is being held by a small group of researchers, archivists, bloggers and artists...
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A coalition of social welfare organizations in Ontario is preparing a legal case compelling the federal and Ontario governments to provide affordable housing as a human right.

Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees Canadians' equality and rights to life, liberty and security. A court case now being prepared in Ontario will argue that affordable housing is a right under the Charter, which will force governments to provide it.

via Planetizen

Full Story: Charter challenge aims to force governments to create public housing

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