Change for Stability: Call For Papers

CHANGE for STABILITY: LIFECYCLES OF CITIES AND REGIONS

The Role and Possibilities of Foresighted Planning

in Transformation Processes

is the core topic of

REAL CORP 2011 -16^th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society,
May 18-20 2011,
World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein (Sanaa Building), Essen / North Rhine - Westphalia / Germany
www.corp.at

CALL FOR PAPERS is open until December 23 2010 via our website www.corp.at
Papers can be submitted in English or German.
REAL CORP 2011 offers a peer-review procedure for scientific papers. Applied case studies and project reports can be submitted as “non-reviewed” papers.
Papers will be selected by a high-ranking international program committee.

CHANGE for STABILITY: LIFECYCLES OF CITIES AND REGIONS

The Role and Possibilities of Foresighted Planning in Transformation Processes

Change, diversification and transformation are ubiquitous in cities and regions. The quest for continuous renewal and improvement is a driver towards a thriving development as well as land use impact, displacement and “constructive destruction” with all their side effects.

Urban development is not a one-way street leading towards an ideal end. Changes of the framework – like revival or crisis of economic sectors, the change of social ideals or ecologically driven challenges – demand the adaptation of the system of aims and development strategies. Also changes of the infrastructure and targeted interventions of planning (lighthouse projects, major events, etc.) lead towards elementary changes of the dynamics and trends of development.

Permanent change takes place – often as continuous, evolutionary development, but sometimes also with huge, dramatic turning points. The matter of “change as requirement for stability of cities and regions” is the core topic of REAL CORP 2011.

How can planning deal with “lifecycles of cities and regions”? Special attention will be paid to the technical possibilities of confronting and forming the changes: planning processes and instruments as well as urban, environmental, transport, communication and GIS technologies.

Some of the topics for which we invite you to submit your interesting contributions are:

• quality of life as benchmark of successful urban development,

• influence of “new technologies” on urban development,

• spatial aspects of innovation and transfer of knowledge and technology,

• management of rapid growth, structural change and shrinkage,

• sustainability through intelligent resource management,

• stability, safety and vulnerability of modern cities,

• anticipatory planning under economically challenging circumstances,

• together instead of side-by-side: rearrangement of cities,

• new life in old structures.

REAL CORP 2011 is a co-operation of

• CEIT ALANOVA (Central European Institute of Technology, Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information Society, www.ceit.at

• Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Building, Housing and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia, www.mbv.nrw.de,

• ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners, www.isocarp.org,

• CORP association - Compentence Center of Urban and Regional Planning, www.corp.at.

It would be great to welcome you to Essen in May 2011 for REAL CORP 2011.

As usual, detailed information and latest news are always available on the website http://www.corp.at