10th
Anniversary EURA Conference 'The Vital City'
Junior Prize Award
As part of this conference and in co-operation with JUNIUS, in Autumn
2006, EURA announced a competition for junior research scholars working on
urban issues.
The competition was open for students, ph.d.
candidates or persons who obtained a ph.d. degree not earlier than in
2006 and who were under 35 years old on 1st March 2007.
Interested scholars sent their research papers and the EURA jury,
nominated by the EURA Board, has after considerable deliberation, agreed that
the award should go to:
Dr Elsa Vivant from the
Urban Research Centre - Department of Geography, London School
of Economics
Elsa Vivant presented the winning paper during the EURA conference in Glasgow (September
2007). An abstract of the winning paper is below:
The off artistic venues’ trigger
effects in urban regeneration project
Off artistic spaces are
flourishing in cityscapes, such as artistic squats, techno travellers
party places, underground circus…. If some people could considered them
as dangerous and marginal, off venues could catch a wider audience than
outskirts and freaks. In a context of creativity’s rising (or even
diktat), a large urban neobohemia is supposed to be
deeply interested into all kind of creativity and artistic expression.
Moreover, we argue that these off venues could be used as tools in
city’s cultural policies.
To understand this interest, it is necessary to review changes in
French cities’ involvement in cultural policies for the last thirty
years. Actually, policies’ goals are moving from residents-oriented
cultural services supplying toward new comers and visitors needs’
matching. This shift implies a change in policies’ patterns too. The
city, as a built environment and a social fabric as well, is becoming the
cultural policies’ playground. Especially, cultural policies are now
embedded into cities development strategies, as we are showing in the first
part of this article. Then, we will explain further what we consider as off
culture and how is it related to mainstream culture. We will put into relief
the current shift that is occurring in planners and authorities
attitude toward these off spaces. The example on the regeneration project of
La Chapelle Stalingrad area in Paris will illustrate it. Moreover, it is
the opportunity to discuss more controversial issues. For whose sake are
culture-led regeneration projects planned? Is there any alternative to
culture in planning policies?
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For
further details:
Dr Elsa Vivant
Email: Elsa.vivant@univ-paris8.fr
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Professor Robin Hambleton and Elsa Vivant at the Glasgow conference
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The second edition of the "EURA Award for
Junior Urban Researchers” was launched short after
the conference in Glasgow
and finished in spring 2010.
The EURA
jury of the "EURA Award for Junior Urban Researchers" has reviewed
the papers submitted for the Award. The jury valued many of the papers.
However, it has not identified a single paper which would meet the high
standards of the 1st Award, involving a recommendation to the Editor of Urban
Research and Practice that the paper should be considered for publication in
the international journal of EURA.
Instead, the jury has decided to grant a 2nd Award to V. Romero and M. Garmendia for the paper "The Integration of
Peripheral Historic Cities in the Madrid
Urban Region. The Role of Transport Infrastructures". Congratulations!
The authors of the paper were invited to:
- present
the paper during the September 2010 EURA Conference in Darmstadt. EURA offers a waiver of the
conference fee for authors of the awarded paper.
- submit a
summary of the paper (1,500-2,000
words) to be published in the EURA Newsletter. It is now available online
(please see: EURA Newsletter no 26).
We would
like to thank all the Participants for taking part in the competition and
sharing their research with us.
The next edition of the competition will be
announced soon!
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