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From: Katrin Anacker <kanacker@vt.edu> on 12/11/2006 6:04:55 PM
Subject: OT: CFA: A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and the New Metropolis

***Apologies for multiple postings
Call for abstracts (due by April 30, 2007, submission opens January 1, 2007)

International conference
Reston, Virginia, USA
April 6-April 8, 2008

A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and the New Metropolis

Hosted by Dr. Robert Lang (Metropolitan Institute), Dr. Paul Knox (Virginia
Tech), and Dr. Edward Blakeley (University of Sydney)

We have entered a new era where the areas outside worldwide core
cities are forming different settlement systems. In Europe, even
tight building controls have not curbed the appetite of households to
move out of the central cities. China and India, with fast-growing
middle classes, are witnessing a startling expansion of their urban
areas with rapid auto-dependent growth on the fringe. Mexico and
Indonesia are beginning to adapt American-style suburban development
patterns. As urban form changes, new research and policy have to be
created to address the challenges of sprawl, congestion, and
affordable housing. This conference will explore these and other
issues in the American as well as international context.

Tracks:
* Immigration/Changing Demographics of the Suburbs
* Special Segregation by Lifestyle/Economics; Gated Communities
* Megapolitans/Metropolitan Form
* Transportation
* Energy Consumption/Sustainable Environment
* Disasters/Adaptation
* Transnational Communities/Residential Tourism
* Governance & Regulation
* Business of Suburbia/Economic Development/Economic Space
* Suburban Decline
* Urban Form at the Neighborhood Level
* Newburbia/Newtowns

Conference Website:
http://www.mi.vt.edu/

Questions:
asuburbanworld@vt.edu

Katrin B. Anacker
Post Doctoral Fellow
Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech
Suite 100
1021 Prince St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
e. kanacker@vt.edu
ph. 703.838.8320
fx. 703.518.8009
www.mi.vt.edu



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From: david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov on 12/15/2006 1:30:28 PM
Subject: AHS: Dependent Interviewing Summary Available for Download

A summary of how dependent interviewing is implemented in the
American Housing Survey is now available for download as a PDF
file from the HUD USER web site,
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahs.html .  Scroll
down to the "Technical Supplements" section.

Dependent interviewing is the practice of using the results
from previous surveys or other questions to improve the
accuracy and reduce respondent burden of current surveys.
Since the American Housing Survey is longitudinal, it provides
numerous opportunities to practice dependent interviewing by
using information collected about a housing unit in previous years. While a
limited form of dependent interviewing was used
from the very beginning of the AHS, this practice was expanded
considerably after the survey instrument switched to a
computer-assisted form in 1997. In the following national
survey (1999), the instrument had access to the data recorded
in 1997 and could thus supply the Field Representatives with
the information needed for dependent interviewing.

The document explains the different kinds of dependent
interviewing and includes a chart that shows which kind was
applied to each variable in the national AHS, for each survey
year.

Dav Vandenbroucke
Senior Economist
U.S. Dept. HUD
david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov
202-708-1060 ext. 5890


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