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Pratt's Center for Sustainable Design Studies Faculty Stipends
Pratt's Academic Director of Sustainability, Debera Johnson, has recently announced a Faculty Stipend Program a series of efforts to engage and support Pratt's educational community in creating innovative ways to bring environmental awareness to students. The program is offered through Pratt's Center for Sustainable Design Studies (CSDS), created and funded by the FIPSE grant awarded to Pratt last year, "Greener by Design". The program consists of 3 types of stipends: CSDS faculty Development Stipends: to support research, conferences and activities that will help faculty integrate sustainability into existing courses link to an application here. CSDS Creative Cluster Stipends: to support workshops, lectures and the development of courses and projects that include faculty from different departments CSDS Living Lab Stipends: to support faculty in integrating facilities and academic initiatives through the greening of Pratt's campus Link | 0 comments  Urban Planning, Passed by the Campaign Trail  Randall Crane, Vice-Chair of Urban Planning at UCLA, contributed a provocative opinion piece to Planetizen, entitled Cities: The Missing Presidential Campaign Issue. Crane also co-author of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Urban Planning, frames his writings on the advice he would give to presumptive Presidential Candidates Obama and McCain. That advice in one word...Cities! Crane makes some interesting points about place making and policy and how the importance of Cities as the agents of change concerning these issues is often overlooked. "Because the downtowns and suburbs of cities, where the supermajority of Americans toil, relax, and puzzleout their lives, are invisible in the 2008 campaign." He goes on to point out that only one candidate, Obama has a statement on urban policy. Agreed, this is an important issue, as the majority of our population now exists within urban areas. And it brings about a lot of questions.....why is rural policy the favorite of presidential campaigns, if the majority of voters reside in urban areas? Has Campaign strategy just not caught up with the population shift from rural to urban? I think not....Perhaps it is the political homogeneity that exists in cities, the majority tend to be Democratic, so possibly this is why the campaign targets those voters that do not consistently vote democratic and associate more with rural lifestyles. Link | 0 comments Archives October 2006 | November 2006 | December 2006 | February 2007 | March 2007 | May 2007 | June 2007 | November 2007 | January 2008 | March 2008 | April 2008 | June 2008 | July 2008 |
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