The Urban Communication Foundation promotes research that enhances our understanding of communication patterns in the urban environment and encourages collaboration between communication scholars, urban planners and policy makers. We support diverse research strategies, recognize noteworthy scholarship in this area and invite participation from all scholars and practitioners studying the various forms of urban communication.
Leyla Nasibova receives 2013 James Carey Urban Communication Grant
The James W. Carey Urban Communication Grant Committee is delighted to give this grant to Leyla Nasibova for her proposal “Collaborative Design & Action Framework for Social & Urban Transformation in Cape Town.” The project proposes the use of communication in connecting citizens across economic and racial divides in Cape Town.
Thoughts on Urban Communication by Charles Self
The following are remarks given last August at the UCF sponsored symposium by Dr. Charles C. Self, held at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference held in Chicago. Urban Communication Foundation AEJMC Presentation – Charles C. Self (PDF)
Sharon Zukin Receives 2012 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award
The 2012 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award has been given to Sharon Zukin for her book Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Public Spaces
Communication and the City: Voices, Spaces, Media Conference
An international conference organized by the Urban Communication Foundation and the Institute of Communications Studies in association with the ECREA Media and the City Temporary Working Group.
June 14-15, 2013
Blair Kamin wins 2012 Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award
The Urban Communication Foundation honors Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, Blair Kamin, the 2012 winner of UCF’s Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award, at the annual Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference in Chicago.
UCF is now on Facebook
We invite you to visit us on Facebook, to join the conversation, and to help us advance the Foundation’s mission.