FURS - Winners
Essay Competition Winners
2010
OVERALL WINNER:
Running head: property titling and housing improvement, by Jean Louis Van Gelder, The Netherlands/Belgium , Category 2.
The author will receive a prize of £1,000 plus £100 worth of Wiley-Blackwell titles .
His paper will be published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research after revisions suggested by the referees.
Second Prizes:
The governing of urban marginality in Western Europe, by Justus Uitermark Netherland, Category 2.
Los Desafios de las Ciudades Intermedias Sudamericanas, en un Contexto de Urbanizacion Global, by Juan Carlos Santa Cruz Grau, Chile, Category 3.
Each author will receive a prize of £500 plus £100 worth of Wiley-Blackwell titles.
Third Prize:
Migrants as Entreprenerus. Local Economic Development, Rescaling and Migration in Southeast Turkey, by Ayse Seda Yuksel, Turkey, Category 2.
The author will receive a prize of £250 plus £100 worth of Wiley-Blackwell titles.
The other finalist is:
Intercambios internacionales, estrategias urbanísticas y aspectos políticos entre España y Argentina (1976-1993), by Guillermo Jajamovich, Argentina, Category 3.
The author will receive a prize of £100 worth of Wiley-Blackwell titles.
2008
Overall Winner:
- Planning for Diversity; Planning for Equity: Race, Culture and Capacities in US Cities, by Suzanne Hague, USA.
The author will receive a prize of £1,000. Her paper will be published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research after revisions suggested by the referees.
Second Prizes:
Category 1:
- Fiscal Responsibility or Perversity? How Fiscal Reforms in Brazil Imperil Slum Upgrading in São Paulo, by Gabriella Carolini, USA.
Category 2:
- Rethinking the Creative City: the Role of Complexity in the Urban Creative Economy, by Roberta Comunian, Italy.
- Multilevel Urban Governance Analysis: Challenges, Obstacles and potentialities, by Nico Giersig, Germany.
Category 3:
- Segregação residencial e acesso à infra-estrutura urbana no Municipio de São Paulo, by Renata Mirandola Bichir, Brazil.
Each author will receive a prize of £500 plus £100 worth of Wiley-Blackwell titles.
Third prizes:
Category 2:
- Metropolitan restructuring in Montreal: space, identity and political attitudes, by Mariona Tomas, Spain.
Category 3:
- Ensaios para Reestruturacao da Paisagem do Corredor Ferroviario Suburbano, by Marcus César Martins da Cruz, Brazil.
Each author will receive a prize of £250 plus £100 worth of Wiley-Blackwell titles.
The other finalists are:
- Can We say a Word, Too? Negotiating Milwaukee’s Sowntown Development, by Sandra Zupan, Croatia.
- Urban/Regional Governance, Chinese Style – A Perspective of Asymmetric Decentralization, by Chien Shiuh Shen, Taiwan.
Each author will receive a prize of £100 worth of Wiley-Blackwell titles.
