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January 23, 2012: 6th AESOP YA Meeting, University of Reading, UK - AESOP YA is glad to announce its Annual Meeting in Reading, UK...
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January 23, 2012: 2012 AESOP PhD Workshop - AESOP 2012 PhD Workshop will take place in Izmir, Turkey from 6 to...
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January 17, 2012: Publication of a new issue of DisP - The Planning Review - http://www.nsl.ethz.ch/index.php/en/content/view/full/2454disP 186...
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January 14, 2012: CT election result - Dear Young Academics,I am very happy to announce the results of...
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December 12, 2011: UCLA Urban Planning Journal-Call for paper - Militaristic UrbanismVolume 19, Summer 2012Deadline for...
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December 12, 2011: UN-HABITAT call for Internships (2012) - The Policy Analysis Branch of UN-HABITAT is responsible for the...
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November 29, 2011: International Conference - Seventh International Conference on Informatics and...
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November 22, 2011: Urban Transcripts 2011 - Urban Transcripts 2011, Rome, the accidental cityinternational...
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August 30, 2011: AESOP European Urban Summer School 2011 - Quality of space - quality of lifeAESOP European Urban Summer...
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August 8, 2011: Call For Papers: DESIGNING PLACES - Dear all, consider the call for papers for an urban design...
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July 14, 2011: call-for-projects ROME, ACCIDENTAL CITY - Rome, the accidental citythe Urban Transcripts 2011...
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July 4, 2011: Call for papers: Forum 11-1 - Dear All, pay attention to the call for papers for the 11th...
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May 12, 2011: Regional Insights: Call for Papers - CALL FOR PAPERS REGIONAL INSIGHTS ISSUE 3 REVISED DEADLINE:...
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April 20, 2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Johannesburg - A postdoctoral research fellowship is available in the Department...
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April 20, 2011: PhD position in Water Governance at the University of Montreal - PhD Position in Human GeographyDepartment of Geography,...
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April 20, 2011: Job offer in Texas : Coastal and Marine GIS Analyst - Position Title: Coastal and Marine GIS AnalystJOB TITLE:...
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March 3, 2011: Call for Participation: 2011 Planners Network International Conference - 2011 Planners Network International ConferenceMemphis, Tennesse...
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February 17, 2011: CT election result - Dear Young Academics, The YA statutes state the...
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January 12, 2011: Call For Papers: 2011 AESOP PhD Workshop, Research for-on-in Planning - 2011 AESOP PhD Workshop18th-22nd JuneKostelec in the Czech...
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November 10, 2010: Fifth PhD workshop in Planning-University of British Columbia - Dear Young Academics,The School of Community and Regional Planning...
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October 13, 2010: Postdoctoral position - Dear Young Aacademics, Laboratoire Techniques Territoires...
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September 16, 2010: Writing a good Journal paper - Dear Young Academics, Are you thinking to publish a paper in a...
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September 5, 2010: New Book: Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning: Knowledge and Policy development in an Enlarged EU - Dear Colleagues,it is my pleasure to inform you about the recent...
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July 2, 2010: new AESOP thematic group launching event - INVITATION: The newly established AESOP thematic group on Public...
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Miss Laura Coucill - Birmingham School of Architecture

Personal Information

Country: United Kingdom

City: Birmingham

Nationality: English

Personal Profile:

Laura Coucill graduated from the Manchester School of Architecture in 2009 with a distinction in BArch. She also completed a BA(Hons) and MA in Architecture + Urbanism in Manchester. She is currently funded by the AHRC to complete a PhD at Birmingham School of Architecture. Laura has experience in Practice and as an Undergraduate Associate Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture. Laura is also a co-author of Isolative Urbanism: An Ecology of Control [2009].

Research Interests

General Research Interests:

Primary research interests include the impact of lifestyle and commodity on the urban landscape, reflecting how cultural values manifest themselves in the built environment. Interests include how cultural values are affected by policy [particularly sustainability policy], code and guidance of place-based design. Integral to this is research into types of programmed, synthesised and systematic landscapes, illustrating the control and manufacture of urban design.

PhD/Postdoctoral Research Title: Your Policy is my Culture

PhD/Postdoctoral Research Abstract::

In the depths of subjectivity lurks utopia: And in the fringes of C21 UK government policy, loiters the objectives for a sustainable future; a future which looks remarkably like the past:
Modernist visions of the utopian future are gradually being erased from the landscape and replaced by the desirable pseudo-vernacular: Preservation of heritage and character now runs rife in our landscapes substituting global homogeneity with that of the local. What’s interesting is the impact of sustainability objectives on the repetition of the pastiche: Where vernacular is related directly to the native or indigenous, the pseudo-vernacular is devoid of original context and requisite of political criteria: The result is a neo-functional landscape, where appearance hales an aesthetic of passive control as a result of the opposite; stringent Boolean logic planning decisions adopted to define perfection.
Character and the definition of place, through the control of policy, are now a precondition of the future, to which sustainable ambitions are retrofitted. Encouraged by the parameters of policy, the neo-traditional is allowed to flourish. Does that make the future green, or representational of green?
If the desires of political climate change agenda are dominated by a C02 emission reduction of 80% by 2050 and CABE anticipate that 75% of housing stock will still be in use in the targeted year; that equates to carbon negative housing, or a fraction of the housing that currently exists. In this scenario can character and carbon reduction coexist, or is the neo-traditional doomed?

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