Conveners
T_07 INCLUSION (A): Sustainable inclusive planning and development
- Esin รzdemir Ulutaล (ฤฐzmir Institute of Technology)
T_07 INCLUSION (A): Migration, segregation and development I
- Ela Ataรง Kavurmacฤฑ (TED University)
T_07 INCLUSION (A): Migration, segregation and development II
- duygu Cihanger Ribeiro (Middle East Technical University)
T_07 INCLUSION (A): Intersectionality, knowledge production and rights I
- Ersi (Varsami) Zafeiriou (DLGS, IOER, TU Dresden)
T_07 INCLUSION (A): Intersectionality, knowledge production and rights II
- Ersi (Varsami) Zafeiriou (DLGS, IOER, TU Dresden)
T_07 INCLUSION (A): Place-based planning: embeddedness and diversity I
- Ela Ataรง Kavurmacฤฑ (TED University)
T_07 INCLUSION (A): Place-based planning: embeddedness and diversity II
- Pantoleon Skayannis (POLIS University)
T_07 INCLUSION (A): Healthy and age-friendly cities
- Rana T. Abdelkader (DLGS, TU Dresden, IOER)
T_07 INCLUSION (A): Inclusive mobility
- Ebru V. รcalฤฑr (Gazi รniversitesi)
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Ms Run Zhao (Erasmus University Rotterdam)08/07/2025, 11:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
This study investigates how policymakers evaluate the success of inclusive city policies, which aim to reduce urban disparities and foster equal opportunities across social, economic, spatial, environmental, and political dimensions. Despite their widespread adoption, many initiatives fall short of bridging the gap between ambitious goals and tangible outcomes. For instance, the Safer Cities...
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Dr Hilay Atalay08/07/2025, 11:10Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
During the transformation and reconstruction of cities, the politics of sustainability has been adopted. Because of the focus on environmental and economic components of sustainability during urban interventions, problems of social inequalities, insufficiency, insecurity, social exclusion, and lack of social unity have been raised. Since the primary purpose of urban interventions is to improve...
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Prof. Fabio Vanin (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)08/07/2025, 11:20Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
The contribution revolves around the "Borderland Brussels" project (BCUS-VUB, 2020-2022) and further research-by-design explorations (Cosmopolis, 2023-2025) which examine urban borderlandsโspaces defined by political, physical, and symbolic bordersโthrough interdisciplinary research in urbanism, anthropology, and criminology. These borderlands, shaped by migration, exclusion, and tension, are...
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Ms Bowen Cui (Tongji University)08/07/2025, 11:30Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
As China continues to explore and implement the concept of the "15-Minute Community Life Circle," optimizing the equitable and inclusive distribution of resources has become a key issue in the regeneration and construction of community life circles. Studies found that, although the distribution of public service facilities in existing communities meets various indicators, there was a clear...
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Ms Xuwei Zhao (Tongji University)08/07/2025, 11:40Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Sharing economic development achievements is crucial for urban inclusivity. As globalization progresses and the economy grows, urbanization has become a vital indicator for assessing the socio - economic development level of a region. As an inclusive urbanization model, in - situ urbanization centers on the interests and demands of the rural population, a disadvantaged group. It can reduce the...
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Ms YI ZHONG (Universitร IUAV di Venezia)08/07/2025, 11:50Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Abstract
Planning has been the key transformative action during these times of highly increasing global crises such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, and socio-economic inequality. We should not have blind pursuit of economic benefits; instead, we have to consider environmental ones during construction. It is not advisable to obtain high benefits at the expense of the...
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Ms Yoon Young Kim (Seoul National University)08/07/2025, 14:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
As of December 2023, 34,078 North Korean defectors had entered South Korea, with more than 1,000 arrivals annually until 2019. The South Korean government, under the "Act on the Protection and Settlement Support of North Korean Defectors," provides comprehensive settlement assistance, including education, employment support, medical care, and housing. However, approximately half of North...
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Ms Rรผya ERKAN-รCEK (Yฤฑldฤฑz Technical University / Department of City and Regional Planning)08/07/2025, 14:10Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
In response to growing planetary crises and the COVID-19 pandemic, urban-to-rural migration has emerged as a significant demographic shift, challenging traditional planning approaches and spatial justice considerations. This spatial mobility is particularly visible in Turkey's rural areas, where improved infrastructure, remote working possibilities, and changing lifestyle preferences have...
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Ms Hรผlya Saรงฤฑn (Middle East Technical University), Dr Ahmet Burak Bรผyรผkcivelek (Middle East Technical University)08/07/2025, 14:20Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Migration, as a search for the better, has to be considered as an important element of human survival process. More than ever, in an age of planetary crisis migration gained multiple meanings and importance. Resource depletion, wars and disasters, social and economic injustices, problems of security and quality of life can be mentioned as some of the major research areas.
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Lale Gรถrgรผlรผ08/07/2025, 14:30Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Refugee' livelihoods have recently attracted attention as they are increasingly caught up in and related to major global transitions in climatic, economic and social systems. In particular, human-made disasters and mass migrations make it necessary to examine the livelihood vulnerability of refugees. The United Nationโs 2030 Sustainable Development Goals adopt a livelihoods approach to...
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Dr Ela Ataรง Kavurmacฤฑ (TED University)08/07/2025, 14:40Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Education is critical for understanding urban and social inequalities in Turkey. The Turkish Statistical Institute's annual report on education expenditure and poverty highlights a significant disparity: individuals in the highest income bracket spend nearly ten times more on education than those in the lowest. The statistics reveal a striking correlation between education and poverty rates;...
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Ms Bรผลra Tilki (ฤฐstanbul Teknik รniversitesi)08/07/2025, 14:50Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
The study was carried out in order to reveal how migration is discussed in the urban design literature and in which contexts it is addressed. Migration is a concept that significantly affects space and social life in today's cities. This population movement, which started to increase in the second half of the last century, has accelerated even more in this century and has become observed on a...
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Katkanok Suta (Pusan National University)08/07/2025, 16:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
This research explores how gender equality shapes economic growth in Europe by focusing on the Gender Equality Index (GEI) as a key measure. Using the E3ME econometric model, it examines how reducing the gender pay gap, encouraging womenโs participation in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), and promoting equal job opportunities contribute to GDP (Gross Domestic...
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Dr Melis Oฤuz รevik08/07/2025, 16:10Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
The earthquakes that struck southeastern Turkey on February 6, 2023, caused widespread destruction and displaced hundreds of thousands of people to temporary shelters. This study examines the applicability of the design criteria developed for the UN Women Turkey Gender-Responsive Settlement Model (GRSM).
The research evaluates temporary shelter areas in earthquake-affected cities in...
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Ms JiaQian Zhang (Southeast University)08/07/2025, 16:20Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
The concept of โequalization of basic public servicesโ has gained increasing attention in China, alongside the public's growing aspirations for a better life. However, significant challenges remain in addressing imbalances and inadequacies in public service, particularly in terms of regional, urban-rural, and demographic disparities(Xu et al., 2022). Aligning public service distribution with...
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duygu Cihanger Ribeiro (Middle East Technical University)08/07/2025, 16:30Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Since migration is an urban reality, many cities are unavoidably associated with the politics of multiculturalism. However, multiculturalism refers to a variety of incomplete and everchanging political strategies and processes in different countries, calling for a rethinking of the social and spatial integration of immigrants and new ways to live together for urban planners and designers. In...
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Dr Marco Ingrassia (University of Palermo - Department of Architecture), Prof. Ignazio Vinci (University of Palermo - Department of Architecture), Prof. Francesco Lo Piccolo (University of Palermo - Department of Architecture)08/07/2025, 16:40Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Over the last twenty years, inequalities within cities have started to grab increasing attention among scientists and policymakers (Nijman and Wei, 2020). In fact, evidence suggests that cities across the world are again witnessing growing socio-spatial disparities due to new driving forces for urban development, often deriving from uncontrolled global processes (OECD, 2018). The reason of...
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Pavlรญna Suchรก (Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU))08/07/2025, 16:50Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Urban residential segregation is a widely studied concept, broadly defined as the spatial separation of social and economic groups within cities. This phenomenon stems from historical, economic, political, and cultural factors, varying in form across different regions (Dadashpoor & Keshavarzi, 2024). Generally, it manifests in two ways: the concentration of affluent residents in gated...
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Dr Vita Elysia (Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia)08/07/2025, 17:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
The research investigates the accessibility of sanitation facilities in slum areas, specifically focusing on Kampung Muka in North Jakarta. The study is motivated by the recognition that adequate sanitation is a fundamental human right and essential for public health, as emphasized by the United Nations and the World Health Organization. Despite global attention to sanitation issues, a...
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Ms Reem Elnady (University of West of England- UWE Bristol)09/07/2025, 11:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Muslim women refugees, particularly those from conflict-affected regions such as Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, face unique and intersecting barriers related to gender, religion, ethnicity, and refugee status. These challenges significantly impact their spatial integration in host cities, shaping their perceptions of belonging and access to resources within urban environments. The...
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Mx Phรขmela Alves (Aalto University), Mr Xunran Tan (Aalto University)09/07/2025, 11:10Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
According to feminist theorists (Federici, 2017, 2019; Hollanda, 2018; Kern, 2019; Lugones, 2020) and scholars from urban disciplines (Colยทlectiu Punt 6, 2019; Falรบ, 2020; Hayden, 1980; Horelli, 2017; Horelli and Damyanovic, 2019; Huning et al., 2019; Tavares, 2015), the structure and design of our cities exclude women due to highly unequal societal and non-representative power structures, as...
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Mrs Beatrice Meloni (DASTU, Politecnico di Milano)09/07/2025, 11:20Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Migration flows are becoming increasingly polarized in many cities worldwide, widening the gap between vulnerable and privileged migrants and, more broadly, sharpening class differences in our cities. This division is particularly evident in highly attractive and economically competitive cities like Zurich, where the polarization of the migration configuration is becoming evident in the social...
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Mr Rahul Raj (University of Sheffield)09/07/2025, 11:30Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Indian cities are transitioning towards more modernist, techno-managerial, and capital-intensive approaches to understanding and managing urban ecologies under national flagship programs such as the โClean India Mission-Urbanโ and the โSmart Cities Mission.โ While these transitions are deemed normative pathways for achieving โsustainable developmentโ and addressing the โpolycrisisโ cities are...
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Ms SIN-YU WANG (Department of Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)09/07/2025, 11:40Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
In response to increasingly complex urban development challenges, reports from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, 2024) and Asian Development Bank (ADB, 2020) indicate that smart cities are one approach to addressing rapid urbanization. Through applying science and technology to improve the quality of life, it is considered to optimize the allocation of resources and overall...
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Laura Saija (Universitร degli Studi di Catania)09/07/2025, 11:50Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Despite decades of debate, policies, efforts and funding dedicated to territorial cohesion within the EU, the quest for โdevelopmentโ in long-term lagging regions is still an ongoing and largely open dilemma; a dilemma that has become even more dramatic due to the changing socio-ecological dynamics as well as the neoliberal evolution of society, economics, and politics.
This paper...
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Prof. Eva รlvarez de Andrรฉs (Universidad Politรฉcnica de Madrid)09/07/2025, 12:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Although the right to housing has been part of the Spanish Constitution since 1976, over 1 million families have been evicted from their homes since Spain's property market crashed in 2008. Face of the housing emergency and the political inaction, in 2009 a social movement emerge, The Platform of People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) and in 2017 the tenants' union, both with the aim to stop the...
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Mr Emre รelebi09/07/2025, 16:30Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Although alienation represents the "arche" of Marxist theory, it has also been an important topic of discussion in terms of urbanism. Parallel to the alienation of man from his labour, his own life and man from man, the aggressive policies of production relations in cities trigger the alienation and exclusion of man from the city. This research examines the levels and types of alienation...
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Dr Mustafa Obaid (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)09/07/2025, 16:40Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
This research seeks to develop an understanding of Baghdad's understudied role in processes of collective identity building and how different visions of citizenship have changed the face of the city. Since the establishment of the Iraqi state in 1921, the capital has been central to questions of belonging and social stability in the country. The richness of Baghdad's ethnic and sectarian...
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Esin รzdemir Ulutaล (ฤฐzmir Institute of Technology)09/07/2025, 16:50Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Urban spatial interventions of central and local governments in Tรผrkiyeโs cities in the form of master plans, plan amendments and piecemeal profit-driven initiatives have increasingly become subject to lawsuits in the past few decades. The two institutional actors that are at the center of this process are the Chambers of City Planners and the Chambers of Architects, which are the leading...
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Dr Neelakshi Joshi (Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER))09/07/2025, 17:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Comparative research is a social science methodology that entails comparing two or more cases, phenomena, or entities to discern their similarities, differences, and patterns. Comparative research is important for advancing the knowledge for urban sustainability transformations by highlighting diverse practices, policies and challenges for achieving transformations. However, comparative...
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Cansu Civelek, Dr Sebastian Ramirez (Princeton University)09/07/2025, 17:10Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Right-wing politics are on the rise globally, with politicians increasingly promoting nativism and anti-immigrant rhetoric combined with neoliberal policies. While many theorists might expect marginalized urban populations to turn to leftist politics to improve their living conditions, these groups often align with right-wing movements. Rather than dismissing such choices as misguided, our...
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Ms ELฤฐF FEYZA UฤUR09/07/2025, 17:20Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
One of the alarming aspects of the global cities is that social and economic disparities and inequalities are deepened and they accompany with the flourishing informal sector. These inequalities have significant impacts on urban space. One of these places, known as Kรผรงรผkpazar, is located at the outskirts of the Sรผleymaniye World Heritage Site in Istanbul. The market area is a small square and...
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Ms Ersi (Varsami) Zafeiriou (DLGS, IOER, TU Dresden), Ms Rana T. Abdelkader (DLGS, TU Dresden, IOER)09/07/2025, 17:30Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Climate change risks affect various aspects of urban life - social, cultural, spatial, or their intersections. How the built environment is conceived and designed affects how people live, work, and recreate and, at the same time, how people respond to risks. Such risks, like urban heat island effects (UHIs), flooding, etc., threaten urban community resilience and increase vulnerability...
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Dr Giovanni Picker (University of Glasgow)10/07/2025, 09:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
In dialog with recent research on urban planning, race and ethnicity (e.g. Mele 2017; Beebeejaun 2022; Williams 2024), in this paper I examine the planning of camps for socially disadvantaged, Eastern European Roma by the municipality of Rome from 1993 to 2020. Drawing on extensive archival, policy and interview-based research, I trace the intersections of political economy and planning...
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Ms Weifeng Mao (GUANGZHOU URBAN PLANNING & DESIGN SURVEY RESEARCH INSTITUTE)10/07/2025, 09:10Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
This paper examines the current challenges in the spatial dimensions of our city's social construction efforts, including the low level of resource allocation efficiency, inadequate expression of urban characteristics, and shortcomings in management systems. It offers reflections on the issues and underlying causes affecting social construction in our city. Drawing on successful practices in...
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Mrs Merve Gokcu Baz (Newcastle university)10/07/2025, 09:20Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Participation in decision-making processes is a longstanding issue in both research and practice. It is widely claimed that planning can become socially equitable and more democratic by incorporating stakeholdersโ perspectives and altering the power dynamics within urban governance. However, further research is necessary to assess the degree of influence that participation grants to...
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Ms Pranavi Kasula (Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia)10/07/2025, 09:30Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Rapid urbanization has transformed cities into vibrant yet unequal spaces, often escalating socio-spatial inequalities through commercialization, marginalization, and gentrification (Raymond et al., 2021). Marginalized communities tend to seek refuge in informal settlements like slums, squatter settlements, and urban villages, wherein exclusion manifests spatially (McCartney and Krishnamurthy,...
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Landung Esariti (Universitas Diponegoro)10/07/2025, 09:40Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
The impacts of climate change, including sea level rise and tidal flooding, significantly affect communities. These include changes in livelihoods, migration due to environmental changes, household finances, health, and education. Climate change poses major challenges for communities, particularly women and vulnerable groups. These groups often face barriers and issues related to gender...
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Dr Jennifer Minner (Cornell University)10/07/2025, 09:50Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Unjust practices have shaped the built environment, encompassing land dispossession, discriminatory land use planning and regulations (Goetz, et al, 2020), harmful material extraction (Malin et al., 2019), toxic production processes, and wasteful construction, consumption, and demolition practices (Grace Farms, 2023; Huuka, 2023). Current building practices and land development processes have...
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Prof. Valeria Monno (Dicatech Politecnico di Bari)10/07/2025, 10:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
This paper proposes and discusses a novel concept of vulnerability and its implications for transformative urban policies and practices. As well known, vulnerability has gained a prominent role in several discourses concerning urban social and environmental justice. Within these discourses, vulnerability has become a sort of mental image which is used to represent conditions of exposure of...
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Ms Chaeyeon Lee (Pusan National University)10/07/2025, 11:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
This study utilizes the Korea Labor Panel to explore how neighborhood characteristics moderate intergenerational mobility of income and assets in South Korea. We employ moderation analysis using MPLUS to examine the interaction between parental socioeconomic status and neighborhood factors, such as average income, wealth distribution, and housing stability. The findings indicate that...
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Dr Elena Madiai (Politecnico di Milano; Department of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering (DIG); Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DaSTU))10/07/2025, 11:10Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Entrepreneurial activities are embedded in space (Reuschke et al., 2015; Welter, 2011; Wright & Stigliani, 2013), and for women in particular, these activities are often deeply intertwined with local communities, networks and available spatial resources at the neighborhood level (Ekinsmyth, 2011; Hanson, 2003, 2009). Space embeddedness is crucial for womenโs personal and professional support...
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Ms Bengisu Ertek Engin (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University)10/07/2025, 11:20Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
In the current era of rapid migration, it is stated that one out of 30 people is on the move, and the proportion of the population living in cities will increase to 66% in 2050 (IOM, 2024). Migration corridors have started to take shape in the last 30 years due to neoliberal economic policies, war, displacement and climate crisis. Turkey is located between important migration corridors such as...
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Mrs Stefania Crobe (University of Palermo)10/07/2025, 11:30Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
A recent study conducted by โSave the Childrenโ identifies the scarcity of childcare services and the inadequate quality of educational offerings as the main causes of educational poverty, emphasizing how this phenomenon is closely linked to the level of material poverty in which families live.
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This issue is particularly evident in Palermo (Sicily, Italy), where disparities are especially... -
Paola Piscitelli (Politecnico di Milano - DAStU)10/07/2025, 11:40Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
The inclusion paradigm involves creating spaces where everyone feels comfortable, yet it raises a paradox: how can we achieve inclusivity in contexts where discomfortโstemming from extreme social and economic vulnerability in marginalized areasโdefines daily life? How truly inclusive is inclusion, and which inequalities remain unaddressed or even worsened? This paradox forces us to consider...
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Ozlem Edizel Tasci (Senior Associate & Proposal Writer)10/07/2025, 11:50Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
As climate change accelerates, its effects disproportionately impact vulnerable and historically marginalized populations, amplifying existing social and economic inequalities. Rural and coastal communities, Indigenous nations, and under-resourced regions often lack access to the scientific data, policy frameworks, and institutional support needed to navigate these challenges. The Institute...
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Ms Zizhan Wang (Tongji University)11/07/2025, 09:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
The global trend of population aging is accelerating. The United Nations predicts that by 2050, individuals aged 60 and above will account for 22% of the global population. In China, as of 2018, the population aged 60 and above was approximately 178 million, the number of people with disabilities was about 85 million, and the low-income population reached around 282 million. These three groups...
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Tzu Hsuan Huang11/07/2025, 09:10Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
The deinstitutionalisation movement has been implemented in mental healthcare since the 1950s. In the 1980s, Taiwan also introduced the idea of psychiatric rehabilitation, intending to shift the focus of mental healthcare from symptoms to restoring individuals' ability to live in the community. However, there are many difficulties in the deinstitutionalisation process. For instance, in 2019,...
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Ms Linxi Qu (Tongji University)11/07/2025, 09:20Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
With the advancement of child-friendly urban planning initiatives, the quality of Active School Travel Spaces (ASTSs) has an important impact on childrenโs healthy growth. However, existing research on evaluating the quality of school travel spaces predominantly relies on subjective experience, and a systematic, large-scale quantitative measurement framework hasn't been established. As a...
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Ms Huan Dong (Tongji University)11/07/2025, 09:30Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
With the continuous increase in the aging population, ensuring the mobility of older adults contributes significantly to their physical and mental well-being as well as their social participation. The built environments in neighborhoods with the concept of healthy aging are a critical area of focus of study. The older adults heavily rely on walking as their primary mode of neighborhood travel....
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Mr Yuxing Zhao (Tongji University)11/07/2025, 09:40Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Urban planning can affect respiratory health. Due to industrial and mining pollution, unique spatial structure, etc., the built environment factors of coal resource-based cities have special impact paths on respiratory health. Lung cancer is one of the cancers with the highest incidence and mortality rates worldwide. Qujing, located in the eastern part of Yunnan Province, China, is dominated...
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Nicola Pontarollo (Univercsity of Brescia)11/07/2025, 09:50Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Promoting healthy living environments necessarily passes through awareness that the determinants of health lie mainly outside the control of the public health sectors. Healthy living is the result of several factors that may produce health inequalities across socio-economic groups. As shown by WHO and other organizations, inequalities should be reduced for equity reasons and for sustainable...
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Dr Stefania Butti (University of Bergamo)11/07/2025, 11:00Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
In contemporary society, the growing demographic of older adults and rapid urbanization make rethinking the relationship between health and the urban environment crucial (WHO, 2017). Housing quality and organization of urban spaces significantly impact older adultsโ physical and mental health, shaping their aging trajectories (Oswald et al., 2011). This underscores the need for innovative,...
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Federica Maria Raiti (Links Foundation/Sapienza universitร di Roma), Stefania Mauro (Links Foundation)11/07/2025, 11:10Track 03 | MOBILITYOral
This paper explores the potential of behavioral interventions to drive a modal shift from unsustainable transportation modes to active mobilityโwalking, cycling, and wheelingโ particularly with a focus on people in vulnerable situations, such as the elderly, women, children, people with disabilities, low-income groups, and their intersectionality. The research is conducted within the framework...
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Dr Arzu Erturan (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University), Dr Bahar Aksel (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University)11/07/2025, 11:20Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
In Turkiye, cities typically pursue growth-oriented visions spurred by economic expansion and a focus on construction. Conversely, smaller cities facing difficulties in meeting these criteria experience setbacks like population decline and a decrease in quality of life stemming from economic contraction (Arslan et. al, 2016). To address these challenges, adopting new planning concepts creates...
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Ms Lotte Luykx (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)11/07/2025, 11:30Track 07 | INCLUSIONOral
Urban environments are seldom tailored to the needs of children and young people. Through car-centric development, childrenโs use of public spaces, opportunities for play, physical activity and social interaction became increasingly limited. This exclusion impacts their physical, socioemotional, and cognitive development. Child-friendly cities, as defined by UNICEF, prioritize childrenโs...
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