DSUP-
Doctoral Students of Urban Planning 

Spring 2008

• Jan 30: No Seminar due to faculty search.  Please plan to participate in the search on both Tuesday 1/29 and Friday 2/1.
• Feb 6: No Seminar due to faculty search.  Please plan to participate in the search on both Monday 2/4 and Thursday 2/7.
• Feb 13:  Joanna Ganning, "Capturing Context within a Region and its Communities: Applications of Typologies and Cluster Analyses"
• Feb 20: Marisa Zapata, "Planning across Differences: Developing cross-cultural planning processes to prepare for the future" 
• Feb 27: T. John Kim, "Role of Transportation in Cities in the Information Age"
• Mar 5:  Edward Feser, "Faculty promotion and tenure (P&T) process"
  Note:  please visit http://www.provost.uiuc.edu/communication/09/index.html for information.
• Mar 12: Jason Brody, "Constructing Professional Knowledge:  The Neighborhood Unit in the Community Builders Handbook"
• Mar 19: Spring Break, no seminar
• Apr 9: Yu Xiao "Local Economic Adjustment after a Major Natural Disaster"
• Apr 16: Alice Novak " Lawyers and Towers and Barns, Oh My! Historic Preservation Outside the Land of Oz"
• Apr 23: Mallory Rahe "Urban Planning and Rural Development"

Fall 2007

• Aug 28 (Joint seminar with REAL, 5:30pm at 219 Davenport Hall): Shanzi Ke "A Two-Market Equilibrium Model and Cross Sectional Analysis of Chinese Urban Housing and Land Markets"
• Aug 29: Nikhil Kaza and Lew Hopkins "Planning Strategically: In what circumstances should we plan in public?"
• Sep 5: Geoff Hewings "What is 'REAL'?"
• Sep 12: Jordi Honey-Roses "Forest conservation and regional planning in Mexico"
• Sep 19: Edward Feser, Lew Hopkins, and Daniel Schneider "Panel discussion on the DURP PhD program"
• Oct 10: Mary Edwards "Why planners need to know public finance"
• Oct 24: Rob Olshansky "Theory Building and Improvisation: The Adventure of Studying Planning After Disasters"
• Oct 31: Betsy Sweet "Multiple uses of qualitative methods in urban planning"
• Nov 7: Book discussion: “Engaging the Future: Forecasts, Scenarios, Plans, and Projects ” Editors: Hopkins, Lewis and Marisa Zapata, 2007
  Discussion moderators: Lew Hopkins and Marisa Zapata
• Nov 14: Brian Deal "Successful grant proposal writing and LEAM"
• Nov 28: Nama Raj Budhathoki "Spatial Data Infrastructure, Web 2.0, and Planning: Research Opportunities and Challenges"
• Dec 5: Tim Green "Assessing business vulnerability in disasters"

Spring 2007

• Apr 3, Jason Brody,  "Emergent Neighborhood"
• Apr 11, Todd Bendor, "Redistribution Effects of Wetland Mitigation over Space and Time"
• Apr 23, Kate Nesse, "Including non-wage income in base multiplier calculations"
• May 3, Julia Koschinsky, "Improving the Spatial Intelligence of Subsidized Rental Spillover Models"