In celebration of Earth Science Week (Oct. 8–14), the ISU GIS Support and Research Facility will host a Geospatial Career Day from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in 206 Durham. A number of GIS professionals representing a variety of fields including transportation, geography, physical science, community development, agriculture and private industry, among others, will […]
Joy Sen, a leader in heritage studies and documentation in India, will speak about his “Experiences with Community and Regional Planning Projects in Asia, and India in Particular” in a lecture hosted by the ISU Department of Community and Regional Planning. Sen’s free talk will be at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in room 130 […]
Deep Cities: Using a City's Heritage and History to Create a Sustainable Future Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen is a research professor and the head of the Heritage and Society Department at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research. He has edited books including Heritage and Sustainable Urban Transformations: Deep Cities (Routledge, 2020) and […]
Martin Deinhofer Lecturer/researcher and international coordinator, University of Applied Sciences Vienna (Austria) Hosted by Alenka Poplin, associate professor in the Department of Community and Regional Planning, Deinhofer will share the key outcomes of Inclusion International, a project focused on internationalization of "e-Inclusion," i.e., support of people with disabilities through modern information and communication technologies. He […]
Beniamino Murgante, professor of spatial planning at the School of Engineering at the University of Basilicata in Potenza, Italy will lead a virtual lecture on "Exploring Novel Strategies for Urban Sustainability: The Concept of the 15-Minute City" from 1:40–3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, via Webex. He will speak during the Smart and Sustainable Cities course […]
BNIM Regenerative Design Challenge: Co-Creating Communities of Climate Resilience Jiwnath Ghimire, assistant professor, community and regional planning Alenka Poplin, associate professor, community and regional planning Andrea Wheeler, associate professor, architecture College of Design faculty members who received a BNIM Regenerative Design Challenge grant in 2023 will discuss regenerative principles from the lens of community collaboration […]
2024 Iowa State University Homelessness Symposium Keynote Address Gregg Colburn is an associate professor in the Runstad Department of Real Estate in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments. He publishes on topics related to housing and homelessness and is the co-author of Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns […]
Jenny Schuetz is a Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, where her research focuses on urban economics and housing policy, particularly how government policies impact housing affordability and economic opportunity. She has written extensively for academic and public audiences, and her book Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems has received coverage on Marketplace, The […]
