The Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth is pleased to announce a Study Space Program in Istanbul, Turkey March 31- April 6, 2013. 

A Study Space is a week-long intensive workshop, in which academic scholars and professionals come together to study and develop solutions to the challenges being faced by cities throughout the world.  This program will focus on disaster preparedness from an interdisciplinary perspective of land use policies, building restrictions, and the handling of environmental refugees.  It will be a collaboration with the Payson Center for International Development at Tulane University's Law School in New Orleans and the law school at Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, Turkey. 

This Study Space Program will be the sixth program of its kind organized by the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth.  Past Study Spaces have included:

• Panama's Explosive Urban Growth held in La Ciudad de Panama, Panama in December 2007.
• Property, the Environment and Cultural Diversity in Colombia held in Bogota, Colombia in March 2008.
• Private and Public Lands in the Post-Colonial North American West held in Denver, Colorado in November 2008.
• The Use and Control of Space and Institutions for Social Transformation- the Case of Medellin held in Medellin, Colombia in December 2009.
• Inclusive and Sustainable Rio: Cultural Diversity, Property and the Environment held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in July 2010.