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Planning for Disaster: Place, Population, Culture and the Environment a Preface to Study Space VI

Julian JUERGENSMEYER

Study Space is an ongoing series of weeklong intensive workshops in which scholars and government and private sector professionals develop solutions to legal, social and policy challenges in urban areas. In comparison to most conferences and seminars Study Space is unique because:

Participation is limited to a small group of international scholars and professionals selected from a variety of disciplines. They receive carefully selected and in-depth discussion materials relating to the subject and place of the Study Space in advance and are expected to familiarize themselves with their content prior to arriving at the Study Space site. The on-site activities are designed to promote active learning and problem-solving through research, site visits and group discussions with local academics, NGOs and government officials. In the months following the Study Space participants contribute scholarly articles for publication in a journal distributed to an international audience which are prepared not in advance of the program but as a result of the research, field trips and presentations which occur during the Study Space session.

The Study Space concept was pioneered by Professor Colin Crawford when he was Professor of Law and Co-Director (with me) of Georgia State Law School’s Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth. During his tenure as Co-Director, our Center held six Study Spaces: