LECTURE SERIES

The Training and Extension Services Division invites experts in different areas of planning to deliver free lectures to faculty, students and interested planners from time to time. In 2005, SURP hosted five (5) Public Lectures on the following topics:

• Travel Demand Management in Metropolitan Areas;

• Applications of Agent-Based Modelling in Analyzing Complexity and Spatial Dynamics of Land-Use Change;

• Supply and Disposal Systems in Spatial Planning: Interaction between Land-Use and Piped Water Supply Systems;

• Partnership Planning for Indigenous Cultural Landscapes: Conditions for Conflict or Collaboration at Mt. Pulag National Park;

• Building a Comprehensive, Innovative, Multi-Modal Truck/Freight Model for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area: A Preliminary Model Using Cube Cargo.

As part of the 40th Ruby Anniversary celebration of the School of Urban and Regional Planning, the Training Division conducted the Public Lecture-Series which were held from October 17-21, 2005 at the Mini-Theater of SURP. The lectures delivered during the 5-day event covered the following subject matters:

• Assessment of Planning Education in the Last Four Decades;

• Advocating and Localizing the Millennium Development Goals;

• Ensuring Environmental Sustainability and Local Development Planning;

• Strategic/Environmental Planning – Towards Sustainable Urban Development, Management, and Governance;

• Innovations in Local Development Planning

High caliber individuals, which most of them are considered as pillars of the planning practice in the Philippines, were invited as resource persons.
 

Click here for list of previous lecture series held.