Articles from February 2006
![Open House Open House](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/Ben_Goldsworthy.gif?h=881888aa&itok=ldrU9bw1)
Open House
"Planning and Pizza" Open House Thursday, February 23rd 2006 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. - 327 Jessup Hall
![Faculty win APA/JAPA Best Paper Award Faculty win APA/JAPA Best Paper Award](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/PICT0002d.jpg?h=52d3fcb6&itok=QdQ0lTbv)
Faculty win APA/JAPA Best Paper Award
The Journal of the American Planning Association singles out one article a year for special recognition. This year, the journal's best article award goes to "The Failures of Economic Development Incentives," by Alan Peters and Peter Fisher.
![Imagining CRANDICIA Imagining CRANDICIA](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/unionstation.gif?h=8a0e61cf&itok=kTF9-xFA)
Imagining CRANDICIA
Almost every student who has graduated from the Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning over the past 20 years has had the pleasure of taking (or been compelled to take, depending on how you look at it) Jim Throgmorton's introductory core course
![Francis Y Owusu to speak on Development Policy in Africa Francis Y Owusu to speak on Development Policy in Africa](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/francis.gif?h=dd5474d1&itok=15SKvWwm)
Francis Y Owusu to speak on Development Policy in Africa
![Iowa Homeless Study Published Iowa Homeless Study Published](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/homeless3.gif?h=1e3eb1e2&itok=mj3ueUg6)
Rex Honey to speak on New Zealand Boundary Dispute
![David Forkenbrock wins William S. Vickrey Award David Forkenbrock wins William S. Vickrey Award](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/david%203.gif?h=1a5a9e44&itok=Kh38W726)
David Forkenbrock wins William S. Vickrey Award
David Forkenbrock was presented the first ever William S. Vickrey Award for best paper in economics and finance by the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council for his article, “A Mileage-Based Road User Charge Concept.”