CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
Location: University of Illinois Campus, Illini Union Building, Room 210
(Saturday morning simultaneous workshop sessions includes Room 211), 1401
W. Green St., Urbana
Friday, June 18
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-10:00 - Opening Remarks
Donna Buchanan, Director, Russian, East
European, and Eurasian Center, & Associate Professor, Department of
Musicology, University of Illinois
Kieran Donaghy, Director, European Union
Center, & Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning,
University of Illinois
Plenary Session: THE POST-COMMUNIST TRANSITION
Moderator: Zorica Nedović-Budić,
Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University
of Illinois
Keynote Presentations:
Sasha Tsenkova, Associate Professor in
International Development and Planning, University of Calgary, Canada
Managing Change in Post-Communist
Cities
Gregory Andrusz, Professor Emeritus,
Department of Sociology, Middlesex University, UK
From Wall to Mall
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Plenary Session: URBAN PROCESS
& SPATIAL CHANGE
Moderator: Sasha Tsenkova, Associate
Professor in International Development and Planning, University of Calgary
Keynote Presentations:
Alain Bertaud, Independent Consultant
The Spatial Structures of
Central and East European Cities - More European than Socialist
Ivan Tosics, Director, Metropolitan Research
Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Determinants and Consequences
of the Spatial Restructuring in Post-socialist Cities
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Plenary session: URBAN HOUSING
MARKETS & PRIVATIZATION
Moderator: Gregory Andrusz, Professor
Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Middlesex University, UK
Keynote Presentations:
Robert Buckley, Housing Advisor, The
World Bank, and Sasha Tsenkova, Associate
Professor in International Development and Planning, University of Calgary
Housing Policy
and Urban Housing Performance
Peter Marcuse, Professor, Department
of Urban Planning, Columbia University
The Fallacies of "Property
Rights" Approaches to Housing and Tenure
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Workshop: PLANNING CONTEXT &
RESPONSES
Moderator: Kieran Donaghy, Director, European Union Center,
& Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning,
University of Illinois
Discussant: Ivan Tosics, Director, Metropolitan Research
Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Presenters:
Zorica Nedović-Budić, Associate Professor,
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois, and
Miodrag Vujošević, Research Scientist, &
Economist/Spatial and Environmental Planner, Institute of Architecture
and Urbanism of Serbia
Interplay Between
Political, Governance and Planning Systems: Case Study of Former Yugoslavia
Brian Schwegler, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology,
University of Chicago
Flexible Planning? Aesthetic
Governance and Urban Marketing in a Slovakian Town
Saturday, June 19
8:00-8:30 Coffee
8:30-10:00 - Parallel Workshops
Room 210
URBAN GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
Moderator: Alain Bertaud, Independent Consultant
Discussant: Zorica Nedović-Budić, Associate
Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois
Presenters:
Justyna Danielewicz and Beata Banachowicz,
Assistant Professors, Department of City and Regional Management, University
of Lodz, Poland
Urban Governance
- the New Concept of Urban Management - The Case of Lodz, Poland
Marin Krešić, Managing Board in Serbian Chamber
of Engineers, & Head of Urban Section and Research Consultant, IKS
and JUGINUS, Serbia & Montenegro
Serbian Planning and Constructing
Law Approach to City Politics and Urban Management - Were We Ready?
Room 211
URBAN PLANNING PRACTICE & POLITICS
Moderator: Faranak Miraftab, Assistant Professor, Department
of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois
Discussant: Gregory Andrusz, Professor Emeritus, Department
of Sociology, Middlesex University, UK
Presenters:
Alexander D. Slaev, Associate Professor, Department of
Architecture and Civil Engineering, Varna Free University, Bulgaria
Interests and Powers of the
Main Parties Involved in The Market Process of Urban Development in Eastern
Europe (Based on the Example Of Bulgaria)
Žaklina Gligorijević, SPURS/Humphrey Research
Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, & Project Manager,
Centre for Urban Development Planning (Centar za planiranje urbanog razvoja,
CEP) Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro
US Public - Private
Development Experience for Serbian Urban Heritage Improvement: Possibilities
for Implementation in Urban Recycling Strategy
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 - Parallel Workshops
Room 210
URBAN HOUSING CHALLENGES
Moderator: Robert Buckley, Housing Advisor, The World
Bank
Discusssant: Peter Marcuse, Professor, Department of
Urban Planning, Columbia University
Presenters:
Annette M. Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban
Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Role of Property Rights Reform in the Development
of Warsaw's Private Housing Market
Oleg Golubchikov, PhD Candidate, School of Geography
and Environment, University of Oxford, UK, and Anna Badyina,
Development Manager, Moscow, Russia
Conquering the
"Golden Mile" of Moscow: Power, Capital, and Gentrification
in the Ostozhenka Neighborhood
Room 211
URBAN RESTRUCTURING
Moderator: Andrew Herscher, Mellon Fellow in the Humanities,
University of Illinois
Discussant: Alain Bertaud, Independent Consultant
Presenters:
Anthony Noody, PhD Candidate, and Jean-Claude Thill,
Professor, Geography, SUNY at Buffalo
Budapest: The Trajectory
Toward a New Urban Morphology
Karina Kreja, PhD Candidate, School of Architecture,
Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Changes in Spatial Patterns
of Urban Consumption in Post-Socialist Cities: New Large-scale Retail
Development in Warsaw
Karel Schmeidler, Associate Professor, Transport Research
Center, Brno, Czech Republic
Urban Form and Structure
of Czech Cities and Growing Mobility
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 Reports from workshops: POLICY IMPLICATIONS & RESEARCH AGENDA
Room 210
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-17:00
- Summer Symposium: PROVISION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN POST-COMMUNIST
EUROPE
Room 210
Moderator: Sasha Tsenkova, Associate
Professor in International Development and Planning, University of Calgary,
Canada
Panelists:
Peter Marcuse, Professor, Department of Urban Planning,
Columbia University
Robert Buckley, Housing Advisor, The World Bank
Ivan Tosics, Director, Metropolitan Research Institute,
Budapest, Hungary
Len Heumann, Professor Emeritus, Department of Urban
and Regional Planning, University of Illinois
17:00-18:00 Closing reception
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