Ileana Apostol

E-mail: ileana at nethood.org
Online id: flickr, ipernity
Formal CV:bio (txt)

Research interests and publications

Hybrid communities, neighborhood character, community engagement in planning
(with P. Antoniadis and T. Banerjee)

  • Places on the Net [pdf]
    14th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society, REAL CORP, Sitges, Spain, April 2009.

  • From Face-Block to Facebook or the Other Way Around? [pdf]
    International workshop on Sustainable City and Creativity: Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives, Naples, September 2008.

  • Flanerie between Net and Place: Possibilities for Participation in Planning
    ACSP-AESOP 4th Joint Congress, Chicago, Illinois, July 2008. Under review for publication at Journal for Planning Education and Research (JPER).

Public life, the stranger, flanerie, rhythms

  • The Dialectics of Design: Rhythm-analyses [abstract]
    XXIV AESOP Congress, Helsinki, Finland; Space is Luxury, July 2010.

  • The Planning Expert as Stranger: Implications for Pedagogy [abstract]
    ACSP-AESOP 4th Joint Congress, Chicago, Illinois, July 2008.

Urban design, public spaces, and design pedagogy

  • The Production of Public Spaces: Design Dialectics and Pedagogy [pdf]
    PhD Dissertation at the University of Southern California Los Angeles, December 2007.

  • Teaching the Dialectics of Design to Problem Solving Practitioners [pdf]
    with Kenneth McCown, XXI AESOP Congress, Naples, Italy; Planning for the Risk Society
    , July 2007.

  • Book Review - Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space by Margaret Kohn [pdf]
    with Tridib Banerjee, H-Urban, H-NET: Humanities and Social Sciences Online,
    January 2006.

  • Imported Models, Hybrid Spaces: Representative Projects in Santa Monica, California, and Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia [pdf]
    Traditional Dwellings and Settlements (WPS) Vol.167, January 2005.

  • Ironies of Contemporary Public Spaces: An Institutional Analysis of Los Angeles and the Ruhrgebiet [abstract]
    with Tridib Banerjee and Addie Spahr; XVI AESOP Congress, Volos, Greece,
    July 2002.

Spatial planning

  • Connecting a Fragmented Region: Industriekultur Train [pdf]
    Flagships for the Ruhr, Initiativkreis Ruhrgebiet, January 2004.

  • Flagship Projects including Retail in Bucharest: Villacrosse Arcade & Baneasa Development Initiativkreis Ruhrgebiet Congress, Essen, Germany; Flagship Projects Role in Regional Restructuring & Urban Regeneration, November 2003.

  • Transportation and Balanced Growth in Romania [pdf]
    XIX AESOP Congress, Vienna, Austria; The Dream of a Greater Europe, July 2005.
  • Transportation Planing in Romania with respect to Integration in the EU
    Master's Dissertation at the University of Stuttgart, September 1999.