ACSP – AESOP Fourth Joint Congress July 6 – 11, 2008 Chicago, Illinois Local host: University of Illinois at Chicago leadership.doc ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP Ex Offi cio Co-Representatives Curt Winkle, Conference Chair Gerhard Schimak, Austria University of Illinois at Chicago Helene Linzer, Austria Tridib Banerjee, PAB Hans Leinfelder, Belgium University of Southern California Jan Schreurs, Belgium Eugenie Birch, PAB Elena Dimitrova, Bulgaria University of Pennsylvania Maxmillan Wittmann, Czech Republic Karel Maier, Czech Republic Charles Hoch, PAB University of Illinois at Chicago Petter Næss, Denmark Finn Kjaersdam, Denmark Weiping Wu Henrik H. Hovgesen, Denmark Virginia Commonwealth University Madis Kaing, Estonia David Amborski, Canadian Liaison Mervi Ilmonen, Finland ASSOCIATION OF Ryerson University Didier Paris, France COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS Jan Tucny, France OF PLANNING Benjamin Davy, Germany www.acsp.org Enrico Gualini, Germany Uwe Altrock, Germany Offi cers Heike Langenbach, Germany Michael Hibbard, President Jorg Knieling, Germany University of Oregon Pantoleon D. Skayannis, Greece Gyula Horváth, Hungary Cheryl Contant, Vice-President/President-Elect Paula Russell, Ireland Georgia Institute of Technology Domenico Patassini, Italy Marie Howland, Secretary Umberto Janin Rivolin, Italy University of Maryland Ilir Gjinolli, Kosovo Barry Nocks, Treasurer Jekabs Trusins, Latvia Clemson University Edwin Mintoff, Malta Mickey Lauria, Immediate Past President ASSOCIATION OF Torill Nyseth, Norway Clemson University EUROPEAN SCHOOLS Roar Amdam, Norway OF PLANNING Tadeusz Marszal, Poland Regional Representatives www.aesop-planning.com Tadeusz Markowski, Poland Mildred Warner, Northeast Rui Braz Afonso, Portugal Cornell University Offi cers Artur Da Rosa Pires, Portugal Peter Ache, President Dejan Djordjevic, Serbia Clinton Andrews, Northeast L’ubica Vítková, Slovakia Rutgers University Helsinki University of Technology Andrej Pogacnik, Slovenia June Manning Thomas, North Central Anna Geppert, Secretary General Universite de Reims Eduardo Cáceres, Spain University of Michigan Enrique J Calderón, Spain Susan Bradbury, North Central Willem Salet, Senior Vice President Kristina Nilsson, Sweden University of Amsterdam Iowa State University Lennart Tonell, Sweden Dan Immergluck, Southeast Andreas Voigt, Treasurer Willy A. Schmid, Switzerland Georgia Institute of Technology Vienna University of Technology Thomas Matta, Switzerland Tejo Spit, The Netherlands Tim Chapin, Southeast Nikos Karadimitriou, Communications Florida State University University College Longon Barrie Needham, The Netherlands Ela Babalik-Sutcliffe, Turkey Elise Bright, South Central Beatrix Haselsberger, Young Academics Vienna University of Technology Zeynep Merey Enlil, Turkey Texas A & M University John Mccarthy, United Kingdom Pantoleon Skayannis, Conferences Enid Arvidson, South Central David Ludlow, United Kingdom University of Texas, Arlington University of Thessaly David Sloane, West Andrea Frank, GPEAN Representative Congress Staff University of Southern California Cardiff University Donna Dodd, Congress Director Randall Crane, West Roelof Verhage, Junior Vice President Instit d’Urbanisme de Lyon Kirsten Dazevedo, Registration Manager University of California Los Angeles Laura Ervin, Logistics Manager Ahmed Abukhater, Student Representative Sebastien Pioantoni, Glenda Fisher, Logistics Coordinator University of Texas at Austin Assistant of Secretary General Universite de Reims Suzannah Hamlin, Registration Assistant Yang Chen, Student Representative Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 table of contents .doc TABLE oF ConTEnTS Organizational Leadership . .2 Welcome Messages . .4 Program Highlights . .7 Joint Plenary Assembly . .9 Receptions . 10 • Welcome Reception – Monday . 10 • Student, University and Publisher Receptions . 11 Session Highlights . 12 • Special Sessions . 12 • Local Host . 14 • Sponsored Sessions . 15 Mobile Workshops . 18 Book Fair and Job Bank . 20 At-a-Glance . 21 Hotel Floor Plan – 6th Floor . 23 Hotel Floor Plan – 7th Floor . 24 Hotel Floor Plan – 10th Floor . 25 Schedule At-A-Glance . 26 Table of Sessions . .28 Business Meetings . 30 Special Interest Group Events . 33 Research Poster Display . 34 Session Titles By Track . 35 Tuesday Chronological Sessions, Roundtables & Meetings . 39 Wednesday Chronological Sessions, Roundtables & Meetings . 63 Thursday Chronological Sessions, Roundtables & Meetings . .75 Friday Chronological Sessions, Roundtables & Meetings . .103 Reference and Index . .117 Presenter Information . 119. • Congress Registration & Check-in . 119. • Last Minute Changes Document . .119 • Policies and Guidelines . .119 • Audio Visual Equipment Available . 120. • Instructions for Moderators and Discussants . .120 Practical Information for your Stay . 121. Track Descriptions . 122. Author/Participant Index . 128. Advertising • Metropolitan Institute . 20 • Student Reception . 32 • IRRPP . 33 • Liverpool University Press . .127 • University of Southern California . .inside back cover • Conference Benefactors . outside. back cover 3 welcome texts.doc welcome texts.doc cont WELCoME MESSAGES It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the July 10-13. For those interested in urban Welcome 4th Joint AESoP/ACSP Congress, which is history and the history of planning this is a also the 49th Annual ACSP Conference. It wonderful chance to link with colleagues ACSP! promises to be a very stimulating conference from around the world. in one of America’s most exciting cities. Bringing the theme of Bridging the Divide: The conference theme, Bridging the Celebrating the City down to the reality of Welcome Divide: Celebrating the City, speaks to us in the local context, an impressive number a variety of ways. Most directly, of course, it of walking, biking, bus, and train mobile suggests the various divides – racial, ethnic, workshops are on offer, including several AESOP! religious, and so on – that characterize with historical emphases organized by IPHS. many cities around the world, as well as Chicago embodies many of the divides Welcome the possibilities for planning as a source implied by the theme; it also exemplifies of knowledge and action to help bridge many important, successful planning those divides. The empirical, theoretical, solutions. I urge you to get to know our to Chicago! methodological, and pedagogical sessions host city . that form the heart of our conference will Finally, I want to acknowledge the challenge us to think deeply and creatively organizers of this wonderful event. Curt about the ways planning can make a Winkle of the University of Illinois at Chicago difference . chairs ACSP’s Conference Committee. From the The theme also captures the spirit of the Donna Dodd is our Association Manager ongoing relationship between ACSP and our and Conference Director. They have had ACSP President AESoP colleagues. our two organizations the major responsibility for everything from have been celebrating the city and working planning to scheduling to logistics. Every Micheal Hibbard to create bridges among our members since participant in the Joint Congress owes them our first joint congress at oxford in 1991. a debt of gratitude. The institutional and individual relationships Curt and Donna have been ably supported that have developed over the past seventeen by the Joint Congress Steering Committee, years are too numerous to mention. They which is co-chaired by Curt and Simin cross the full range of our scholarly, teaching, Davoudi, newcastle University; other and public service activities, from joint members are Peter Ache, Helsinki University research projects to collaborative studios of Technology, Robin Boyle, Wayne State and consultations. This Joint Congress is an University, and Karel Meier, Czech Technical opportunity to affirm existing relationships University of Prague. Curt is also Chair of the and forge new ones . Local Host Committee from the University of Ten years after oxford, with the first Illinois at Chicago; other members are Karen World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC) Berthiaume, John Betancur, Charles Hoch, at Shanghai in 2001, our bridging took the Martin Jaffe, and Jodi White. leap to the global. The Global Planning Enjoy the conference! Education network (GPEAn), a network of nine associations of university-level urban Michael Hibbard, ACSP President, and regional planning programs from around the world, emerged from WPSC. The GPEAn leadership is holding its annual meetings at the Joint Congress. This includes the WPSC Michael Hibbard Steering Committee which, following the University of oregon, Eugene success of WPSC2 in Mexico City in 2006, is planning for WPSC3. Please join me in welcoming them to Chicago . In another exciting bridging opportunity, our Joint Congress is overlapping with the 13th International Planning History Society Conference (IPHS). IPHS will meet at the same hotel as the Joint Congress, from 4 WELCoME MESSAGES Dear Participants of the joint ACSP/ The current congress is the fourth From the AESoP 2008 Conference ‘Bridging the Divide: Joint Congress of ACSP and AESoP. For Celebrating the City’ our association, the great interest from AESOP President on behalf of AESoP, I warmly welcome planning scholars from America, Europe and you to a new Joint Conference with our beyond demonstrates also that AESoP has Peter Ache partner association ACSP in Chicago. With developed a lot during its already twenty about 1000 participants coming from many years of existence. The number of papers countries