{"249381":{"#nid":"249381","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of City and Regional Planning chair appointed to United Nations expert group on urban planning","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBruce Stiftel, chair of the School of City and Regional Planning, was recently appointed to a United Nations (U.N.) expert group set up to advise U.N.-Habitat on the content of new international guidelines for urban and territorial planning intended for adoption by UN member states at the Habitat III gathering in 2016.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m thrilled at Bruce\u0027s appointment to this panel,\u0022 said Steven French, dean of the College of Architecture. \u201cU.N.-Habitat plays a key role in influencing national policies about urban futures in many countries. Being able to project Georgia Tech expertise into their decisions will undoubtedly have a positive, real impact on cities.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe expert group consists of planners from member states in the U.N.\u2019s five world regions as well as representatives of key professional associations. Their charge will be to advise UN-Habitat, which is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is a group mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBruce Stiftel, chair of the School of City and Regional Planning, was recently appointed to a United Nations (U.N.) expert group set up to advise U.N.-Habitat on the content of new international guidelines for urban and territorial planning intended for adoption by UN member states at the Habitat III gathering in 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Bruce Stiftel to serve on UN expert group"}],"uid":"27814","created_gmt":"2013-10-28 13:14:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:14","author":"Lisa Herrmann","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"98201":{"id":"98201","type":"image","title":"Bruce Stiftel faculty photo","body":null,"created":"1449178142","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:02","changed":"1475894712","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:12","alt":"Bruce Stiftel faculty photo","file":{"fid":"193937","name":"brucestiftelphoto.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brucestiftelphoto_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brucestiftelphoto_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":254749,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/brucestiftelphoto_0.jpg?itok=V2PxBaRu"}}},"media_ids":["98201"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9775","name":"bruce stiftel"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"167159","name":"school of city and regional planning"},{"id":"2628","name":"united nations"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Herrmann\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Architecture\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-0693\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.herrmann@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}