Conveners
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Learning and agency
- Mustafa Kemal Bayฤฑrbaฤ (Middle East Technical University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Learning and institutions
- Raine Mantysalo (Aalto University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Climate governance
- Eva Purkarthofer (Aalto University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Transnational and cross-border planning
- Simin Yan (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University & Institute of Urban Development, Kassel University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Metropolitan and regional planning
- Eva Purkarthofer (Aalto University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Land governance and plannings systems
- Donato Casavola
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Territorial governance and soft planning
- Dominic Stead (Aalto University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Regeneration
- Mustafa Kemal Bayฤฑrbaฤ (Middle East Technical University)
T_04 GOVERNANCE (A): Urban development
- Przemysลaw Ciesiรณลka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
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Dr Byeongsun Ahn (University of Vienna)08/07/2025, 11:00Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The question of how policy learning affects the localization of globally circulating policies has been central to our understanding of urban policy mobility. Within the policy mobilities literature, scholars from various disciplines, ranging from anthropology to geography and sociology to urban planning, have captured the interconnected urban processes and outcomes of global policy...
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Ms Ronglu Yang (Zhejiang University)08/07/2025, 11:10Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The transnational flow of planning knowledge has gradually become a research hotspot since the late 20th century against the trends of the globalization of planning and EU integration. Various interdisciplinary terms have been used to describe this phenomenon, such as "cross-national learning" and "policy mobilization" in politics study, and "knowledge flow" in management study. Some findings...
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Ms Gรผlลah Tฤฑrฤฑล, Prof. Hilal ERKUล08/07/2025, 11:20Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Crises and conflicts at different spatial scales have some planetary consequences. Interventions on commons spaces (state or private sector) have increased with the acceleration of privatization policies in 2008, and debates on the commons theory have re-entered the agenda. The struggles on the commons offer a new perspective of space and a new ontology of politicization in the creation of...
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Dr Romina D'Ascanio (Departmet of Architecture, Roma Tre University)08/07/2025, 11:30Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Wetlands are vital ecosystems, supporting 40% of global biodiversity while providing essential services such as flood regulation, carbon storage, and water purification. Despite their significance, wetlands rank among the most endangered habitats worldwide. Over the past 50 years, more than 35% have been lost due to urbanization, agricultural intensification, and pollution. In Europe, nearly...
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Ms Anna Caroline Aigner (TU Wien)08/07/2025, 11:40Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
In the face of pressing social and environmental challenges, experimental interventions โ such as real-world laboratories, urban living labs, niche experiments and demonstration projects โ are increasingly being recognised as important drivers of transformative urban change. In particular, experiments with co-creative governance are expected to trigger learning processes that challenge...
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Eva Purkarthofer (Aalto University)08/07/2025, 11:50Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
In the context of planning, sustainable development is a ubiquitous yet vague goal which can be pursued through a broad range of policies and policy mixes (Griggs et al., 2017; Gunder & Hillier, 2009). Neither of these policies are unavoidable or self-evident. Rather, they represent conscious or unconscious choices, determined by different knowledges, path dependencies, institutional...
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Dr Lita Akmentina (FinEst Centre for Smart Cities, Tallinn University of Technology)08/07/2025, 14:00Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
With cities facing complex and systemic challenges, city-to-city (C2C) collaborations are increasingly recognised as an effective mechanism for municipal capacity building and transfer of knowledge and practices (Moodley, 2020). C2C exchanges have become a widely occurring phenomenon facilitated by city networks, funding programmes, and projects. It is positioned as a form of peer learning โ...
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Nadia Caruso (Politecnico di Torino), Saskia Gribling (Politecnico di Torino)08/07/2025, 14:10Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The contribution addresses questions of institutional learning within planning policies, proposing Social Innovation (SI) as a conceptual companion to investigate the region of Piedmont in Northern Italy. The term is extensively used and extremely hyped (Vigar et al., 2020). Yet, the project urges to examine the socio and spatial distribution of emerging inequalities and disadvantage...
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Dr Carla Baldissera (Politecnico di Milano - DAStU), Dr Giovanni Lanza (Politecnico di Milano - DAStU)08/07/2025, 14:20Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
In recent decades, an increasing number of cities worldwide have incorporated tactical urbanism into their urban planning strategies challenging traditional governance schemes and well-established planning approaches.
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Some local administrations have developed structured tactical urban planning programs, defining criteria and priorities for implementing tactical experiments through a... -
Pedro Gomes (Lab'URBA - EIVP)08/07/2025, 14:30Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Reinventing Cities (RC) is a planning and design competition organized by the C40, a global city network of knowledge exchange and policy support for climate adaptation. RC is one of the network's operational tools, through which cities sell sites deemed under-utilized, so that projects tackling C40โs ten climate challenges can emerge. These projects must be led by interdisciplinary consortia,...
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Prof. Rolee Aranya (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)08/07/2025, 14:40Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The article builds on two generations of Area Based Initiatives (ABIs) in Trondheim from 2013, that are being implemented in neighborhoods where the Municipality has identified quality of life challenges as well as urban physical degradation. The first program of this kind was implemented in the twin-neighborhoods of Saupstad-Kolstad from 2013 โ 2021 and with three new ABIs ongoing in the...
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Ms Palmira De Almeida (University College Dublin, School of Architecture Planning and Environmental Policy)08/07/2025, 14:50Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Spatial planning is a complex process deeply rooted in institutional contexts, playing a pivotal role in facilitating societal transitions towards sustainability. The governance structures shaping planning are influenced by a network of institutions, regulations, and procedures, which determine the decision-making processes around land-use and spatial configurations. Planning institutions are...
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Christian Lamker (University of Groningen)08/07/2025, 16:00Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The world becomes urban, the majority of people live in cities, and we speak of an โurban ageโ. Planning as transformative action, especially towards and in a future post-growth society, involves motivating and engaging urban imaginaries. While some of them remain hidden in urban theory and associated role perceptions of planners and policymakers, so do we see imaginaries driving cities to...
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Raine Mantysalo (Aalto University)08/07/2025, 16:10Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
In Finland, the established institutional frameworks and practices of spatial governance have generated a fairly stable regional order of core-periphery relations. Now this order is being challenged by the green transition and associated new technologies and market opportunities. Areas formerly peripheral have emerged as new centres of attention for green investments. What are the...
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Cheyenne Raskeyn (University of Groningen)08/07/2025, 16:20Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Infrastructure networks face significant challenges due to climate change (Tavasszy et al., 2016). Road networks, in particular, are vulnerable to extreme weather events, potentially leading to disruptions such as flooding or subsidence, especially when multiple climate drivers interact and amplify each other (KNMI, 2023). Despite road infrastructure being recognized as critical infrastructure...
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Prof. Nicky Morrison (WSU), Patrick Harris08/07/2025, 16:30Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Purpose:
This presentation presents a protocol, ideas and framework to advance knowledge and research about how built and social infrastructure has co-benefits for climate change and health equity. The focus is to identify the systemic conditions that support best practice governance behind planning and delivery of climate adaptive infrastructure to enable equity....
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Ms Jingjing Li (Beijing Forestry University)08/07/2025, 16:40Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Achieving sustainable urban development is a critical pathway for advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Klopp and Petretta, 2017), and the implementation of effective and sustainable policies is essential to achieving this objective (Lowe et al., 2022). In this context, China has launched a series of the Urban Green Action (UGA) plans, such as the Eco-Garden City, the National...
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Dr Vittore Negretto (Iuav University of Venice)08/07/2025, 16:50Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
This paper examines governance structures and institutional learning in urban transformation processes for climate change adaptation, focusing on Bolognaโs experience within the European Urban Initiative. This program has funded 22 innovative projects across European cities, and Bolognaโs TALEA is currently in the early stages of its journey, laying the foundation for future physical and...
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Mr Yannis Paraskevopoulos (Department of Geography and Regional Planning, National Technical University of Athens)09/07/2025, 11:00Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Planning cities and communities is a rather complex matter, encompassing different dimensions and aspects (urban, transport, environmental, etc.). The traditional approaches dealt with these aspects in isolation, thus ignoring interdisciplinary effects and interactions. In contrast, recent approaches prioritise integrated solutions that holistically deal with urban space. To that end, there is...
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Dr Beate Caesar (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)), Prof. Karina Pallagst (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU))09/07/2025, 11:10Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Spatial planning, understood as โmeasures [taken] to develop models of a desirable, ideal state of the space and to create the conditions for its realizationโ (Turowski, 2005, p. 894) traditionally stops at the national border, its scope of action and the competences of spatial planners are legally bound to a nation state and its planning system. However, more and more cross-border functional...
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Giulia Motta Zanin (Polytechnic University of Bari)09/07/2025, 11:20Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) is an essential tool for ensuring sustainability and effective governance in coastal areas, particularly in regions facing high anthropogenic pressure and environmental vulnerabilities and uncertainties such as the Adriatic-Ionian Region. However, the implementation of its principles and recommendations still shows great difficulties.
This study...
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Dr Oleksii Yehorchenkov (SPECTRA Centre of Excellence EU at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava)09/07/2025, 11:30Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Border regions, often characterized by unique socio-economic dynamics and shared governance challenges, require robust data management systems to foster cross-border collaboration and sustainable development. This research investigates the purpose and implementation of data management practices in border regions of different countries, focusing on their potential to address cross-border...
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Sylwia Doลzbลasz (University of Wrocลaw)09/07/2025, 11:40Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Border areas exhibit unique characteristics in the formation of cooperative relationships, influenced by the interplay of international and national conditions at central, regional, and local levels. Additionally, the existence of the border as a barrier in many dimensions, including spatial, economic, socio-cultural, plays a very strong role. Under these conditions, the initiation and...
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Dr Marco Del Fiore (Politecnico di Torino)09/07/2025, 11:50Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The European Union has witnessed a significant evolution in cross-border cooperation governance in recent years, encompassing various institutional mechanisms and arrangements. Interreg programs, Macroregional strategies, the b-solutions project, and more complex institutional cooperation structures such as Euroregions and European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) demonstrate that...
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Prof. Zhuoran SHAN (School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Huazhong University of Science and Technology)09/07/2025, 12:00Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
With the rollout of China's national strategy promoting metropolitan area integration, a plethora of urban planning practices spanning administrative boundaries are flourishing across the country, sparking considerable academic interest in a novel type of intercity adjacent regional unitโwhich we designate as "cross-border urban cooperation zones." The main contribution of this paper lies in...
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Ms Simin Yan (Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography & Institute of Urban Development, Kassel University)09/07/2025, 16:30Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
With enhanced inter-city connectivity and extended urbanization, cities were expanding beyond their traditional city limits to become global city-regions through metropolisation (Scott, 2001). It has led to the bursting open of city-region boundaries, where cities and city-regions in proximity merge into vast, complex, and often cross-border territories (Brenner, 2019). These processes pose...
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Prof. Anna Growe (Kassel University)09/07/2025, 16:40Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Border regions often face particular challenges, especially with regard to governance structures, institutional framework conditions and interregional cooperation. These problems concern both international borders, as addressed in the context of EU initiatives such as INTERREG, and intra-national borders, for example between federal states. While national borders have long been addressed in...
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Oriol Estela Barnet (General Coordinator of the Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan, Spain; member of the ARL International Working Group โResilient Metropolitan Regions), petra schelkmann (Director Planning of the Verband Region Rhein-Neckar, Germany; chair of the ARL International Working Group โResilient Metropolitan Regions)09/07/2025, 16:50Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The Metropolitan Commitment 2030 is a strategic framework led by the Metropolitan Strategic Plan of Barcelona (PEMB) which aims to create a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient metropolitan region by 2030, aligning with global objectives such as the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At its core, the Commitment integrates a mission-oriented approach, which focuses on...
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Philip Krassnitzer (University of Vienna)09/07/2025, 17:00Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Reducing land take is indispensable for climate protection, biodiversity, flood prevention and food security. Land take โ understood as the conversion of land to artificial surfaces โ is a pressing issue in the peri-urban areas, where agricultural land and housing developments meet and pressure for land reallocation is particularly high. This dissertation project explores to the role of...
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Mr Benno Schroeder (TU Dortmund University), Dr Martin Schinagl (Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development)09/07/2025, 17:10Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Strategic regional planning is driven and implemented by a network of institutional actors with diverse interests embedded in a specific institutional setting (Purkarthofer et al., 2021). This contribution examines the relationship between such planning actors and their respective institutional context, particularly regarding the impact of regulatory instruments on decision-making processes...
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Ms Guyue Sun (Southeast University)09/07/2025, 17:20Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
This study focuses on the construction of regional multi-dimensional proximity network and the application of collaborative agglomeration between regions, aiming to rethink the regional construction model and promote fair distribution of resources.
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This study focuses on the construction of multidimensional proximity networks in regional areas and the exploration of their application in... -
Prof. Evelin Jรผrgenson (Estonian University of Life Sciences), Mrs Kรคrt Metsoja (Estonian University of Life Sciences)10/07/2025, 09:00Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Despite numerous initiatives at the European level to reduce land take, built-up areas continue to expand more rapidly than population growth throughout Europe (Schiavina et al., 2022). Legal and policy frameworks at the EU, national, and local levels outline land protection, soil management, and ecosystem restoration obligations. Moving forward, cities will increasingly need to redevelop...
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Mr Kaio Nogueira (University of Reading)10/07/2025, 09:10Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Land Value Capture (LVC) mechanisms, such as Section 106 agreements (S106) and the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), are widely regarded as crucial tools for funding urban development by redistributing the value generated through public investments in England. While much of the existing literature has focused on the economic implications of these instrumentsโparticularly their effects on...
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Philipp Kerschbaum (TU Berlin)10/07/2025, 09:20Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Environmental assessments (EAs) serve as key instruments for evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects (Hanna and Arnold, 2022). They are essential for the implementation of energy and mobility projects as part of a sustainability transformation. Public participation is a crucial component of EAs, offering opportunities for stakeholders to engage, shape...
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Dr Jochem de Vries (University of Amsterdam)10/07/2025, 09:30Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Abstract
In various European member states, there has been a call for enhancing national spatial planning (Yang et al., 2024; Breach, 2024). The housing crisis is an essential driver behind these calls (ESPON, 2024), but not the only one. Protecting essential ecosystem services, promoting renewable energy, climate adaptation and, lately, reserving space for military use have also been cited...
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Doriana Musaj (Polis University)10/07/2025, 09:40Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The covid-19 pandemic of 2020 hit Albania just three months after the earthquake of 29 November in the Durrรซs area, with 54 victims and hundreds of buildings damaged. The two crises reshaped the terrain of the political agenda toward the territory in terms of both more centralizing planning policies and the decision-making processes of rebuilding and renewal. The author believes that, for...
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Marcel Bazin10/07/2025, 09:50Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The basin of these two rivers, tributary to the Persian Gulf through the Shatt el-Arab, is one of the three large fluvial systems along the ยซ arid diagonal ยป of the Ancient World, between those of Nile and Indus. They all allowed massive transfer of water towards arid plains and thus, together with China, the development of the oldest states. After a quite long and eventful history, this...
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Ana Escario Chust (INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Politรจcncia de Valรจncia), Dr Oscar M. Blanco Sierra (INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Politรจcnica de Valรจncia)10/07/2025, 10:00Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Climate change poses major challenges to water management and agricultural sectors across Europe. Floods, drought and water pollution require the development of resilient governance structures. In the framework of the FARMWISE project, funded by the Horizon Europe programme, this study aims to analyze the resilience of actor networks within eight European case studies (CS) โItaly, Poland,...
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Ms Andrea Di Bernardo (DIST, Polytechnic and University of Turin)10/07/2025, 11:00Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The proposal draws on Italy's National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI), a place-based policy designed to address the multifaceted development challenges faced by Italyโs inner areas, which are often characterized by demographic decline, geographic isolation, and inadequate access to essential services. SNAI represents a novel policy framework in Italy that emphasizes the importance of...
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Alankrita Sarkar (Delft University of Technology)10/07/2025, 11:10Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Grenspark Groot Saeftinghe (Borderpark Saeftinghe) is a transboundary region located within the Flemish-Dutch Delta, a significant river delta shaped by the Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt rivers. The territory of Flemish-Dutch Delta spans provinces in the Netherlands and Belgium, including Antwerp, East Flanders, West Flanders, Zeeland, North Brabant, and South Holland. As a region of strategic...
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Erblin Berisha (Politecnico di Torino), Donato Casavola (Politecnico di Torino)10/07/2025, 11:20Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Stretching from the Mediterranean Sea in the south-west to the Danube plains in the north-east, the Alpine region is one of the most complex and heterogeneous territories in Europe. While there are numerous contributions dealing with the development dynamics of the peri-Alpine lowlands and the inner-Alpine highlands, so far hardly any attention has been given to these territories in between....
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Prof. Andrea Arcidiacono (Politecnico di Milano), Dr Francesca Mazza (Politecnico di Milano), Dr Gioele Rossi (Politecnico di Milano), Dr Leonardo Ramondetti (Politecnico di Milano), Prof. Stefano Di Vita (Politecnico di Milano)10/07/2025, 11:30Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
This contribution stems from a collaboration in academic research, focusing on the potentialities and contradictions of governance frameworks and planning strategies in shaping the ecological and digital transitions driven by the current European Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP). The study is conducted through a research-by-design approach that led us to adopt an empirical methodology...
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Mr Jinyi Wang (School of Architecture, Southeast University)10/07/2025, 11:40Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Chinese metropolises have concealed numerous conflicts during the era of rapid urbanization, highlighting an urgent necessity to resolve these issues in the context of new-type urbanization. This study focuses on a neighbourhood conflict over a road within Dingshan. Residents of a gated community consider this road to be their internal segment and intend to erect a gate to restrict access....
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Dr Stefano Magaudda (Department of Architecture, Roma Tre University)10/07/2025, 11:50Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
This contribution presents a critical reflection on the implementation and outcomes of several EU-funded projects (Life and Interreg), developed by the authors, which have supported the establishment of an innovative collaborative and adaptive environmental governance that have stimulated a governance system by integrating formal regulatory frameworks with voluntary agreements and...
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Dr Lucia Cerrada Morato (Institut Metropoli)11/07/2025, 09:00Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Metropolises are increasingly spaces of stark inequalities, characterized by significant disparities in access to resources, housing, and opportunities. While traditional academic literature highlights the positive impacts of the metropolitan scale in fostering economic growth through agglomeration effects (Scott & Storper, 2015; Glaeser, 2011), recent scholarship identifies a critical gap:...
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Dr Przemysลaw Ciesiรณลka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)11/07/2025, 09:10Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Urban regeneration has become a leading spatial development direction due to the social, political and economic changes brought about by transforming the post-socialist system in Central and Eastern Europe (Hlavรกฤek et al., 2016). It was characterised by rapidly changing management and planning contexts in line with the Western solutions model (Scott, Kรผhn 2012). A long-term and comprehensive...
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Prof. Carla Tedesco (IUAV University of Venice), Medea Ferrigno (Universitร IUAV di Venezia), Dr Stefania Marini (IUAV University of Venice)11/07/2025, 09:20Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
This paper explores the possibility of scaling up experimental practices emerging from civic initiatives by incorporating them into participatory urban planning processes linked to the construction of wider urban/territorial strategies. The hypothesis of this paper is that in order to enable this scaling up of civic initiatives, participatory processes need to be rethought and innovated,...
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Ms Hsu Ching Yueh (Tongji University)11/07/2025, 09:30Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Research on industrial transformation and collaborative development in small towns has garnered increasing attention against the backdrop of Chinese-style modernization. However, most existing literature focuses on medium- and large-sized cities or the transformation of traditional rural areas, lacking a systematic investigation of industrial evolution and collaborative approaches in small...
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Ms Xin Li (RWTH Aachen University)11/07/2025, 09:40Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The actor constellation plays an important role in urban studies. Understanding actorsโ power resources and mindsets is of fundamental importance in explaining their behaviours and actions in historic urban district conservation, renovation, and redevelopment as well as urban issues on a wider scope. This paper aims to offer a panoramic description framework and also reflections regarding the...
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Tihomir Viderman (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)11/07/2025, 09:50Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
The involvement of young people in urban development is mandated by the UN Convention and has become a normative goal in regional and urban planning. This goal resonates in particular with the debates on urban commons, which emphasize the importance of engaging young people in shaping shared urban spaces, extending the concept of commons beyond lived experiences to the domain of shared urban...
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Mr Paul van den Bragt (Delft University of Technology, Department of Management in the Built Environment, section Urban Development Management)11/07/2025, 11:00Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Urban development in the Netherlands increasingly addresses a wide range of societal challenges, including housing shortage, sustainable energy transition, social inequalities, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. As a result, development processes have become increasingly complex. This complexity has led to a renewed interest in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as governance...
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Paula Vale de Paula (CiTUA, Instituto Superior Tรฉcnico, University of Lisbon)11/07/2025, 11:10Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Urban regeneration has been included in the urban planning of different cities, either as a response to observed urban degradation and decline or to give new functions to obsolete areas and control urban growth. Despite its enormous importance in today's urban contexts, urban regeneration is not a simple task, and, in many cases, urban regeneration projects are complex, involving different...
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Mrs Deniz รzgรผl11/07/2025, 11:20Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Institutions enable organised and collective efforts to address common concerns and achieve social goals (Dovers, 2001). Institutional innovations can occur at various scales when the context in which people and decision-makers operate changes and impose new constraints on them. Climate Change and environmental challenges are today the main drivers of institutional change at all levels...
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Mr Han Gao (Southeast University)11/07/2025, 11:30Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Ethiopia is one of the fastest-growing economies and urbanizing countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The rapid expansion of existing urban areas and the significant increase in the number of new towns highlight the remarkable trends in Ethiopiaโs urban growth. This urbanization process is accompanied by large-scale urban projects aimed at promoting long-term urbanization and modernization in the...
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Dr Kundani Makakavhule (University Of Pretoria)11/07/2025, 11:40Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
South Africaโs 31 years of democracy have been characterized by robust legislative efforts to address spatial inequalities entrenched by apartheid. Policies such as the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996), the White Paper on Housing (1994), the Municipal Systems Act (2000), and the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act (SPLUMA, 2013) have laid the groundwork for spatial...
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Dr Danielle MacCarthy11/07/2025, 11:50Track 04 | GOVERNANCEOral
Public engagement is readily placed in defacto and binary categories of โgoodโ and โbadโ practice. At its best, scholarship demonstrates the major benefits of resilience and wellbeing enacted through procedural justice, inclusion and placemaking. More commonly however, practice is dismissed as performative and a tick box exercise, highlighting schisms in practice and rhetoric and is one way....
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