ICE Urban Design and Planning announces a themed issue for 2016 regarding urban design education.
For the first time in human history, the majority of the world’s population lives in urban areas. From
European and North American post-industrial cities to expanding mega-cities in Africa, South America and Asia and from established and new ‘global’ cities to the many forms of urban sprawl, settlement patterns across the world are undergoing rapid changes that carry profound implications for people’s relationships to community, culture, politics, the economy and the environment.
The 2015 Urban Design and Planning themed issue will include papers about the ways urban design education are preparing the next generation of urban designers to address the global conditions noted above – and others as identified by authors. As urban design grows in importance as both a discipline and a profession, and as academic urban design programs increase in number, now is an opportune time for an international discussion of urban design education.
Urban Design and Planning solicits papers from around the world addressing questions such as the following.
- What is an urban design education?
- What are critical issues that urban design education should address?
- What are the roles, content and goals of studio, history, theory and research in urban design education?
- What are the academic and professional pre-requisites for an urban design education?
- What are urban design education’s relationships to architecture, planning, landscape architecture, real estate development and other fields?
- What relationships are there between urban design education and ‘real world’ conditions and public policy?
- What are trends in urban design education and what are their stimuli?
- What is the future of urban design education?
Authors may address any or all of the questions listed above or others of their choosing. Visual documentation including academic urban design work product is welcome as part of paper submissions.
The deadline for abstracts is 1 November 2015. The deadline for manuscripts is 1 February 2016.
Invitation to authors
To request further details and full journal guidelines, please contact:
Sarah Brown T: +44 20 7665 2249;
E: sarah.brown@icepublishing.com
For more information about the journal, visit:
http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/serial/udp
To submit an abstract online, please follow this link:
http://goo.gl/forms/rDvCakByQH
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Bruce Race FAIA
Professor, Director of CeSAR
Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture
Houston TX
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