Conveners
T_09 URBAN FUTURES: Narratives in planning-critical perspectives
- Mete Basar BAYPINAR (Istanbul University , Urban Policy Applied Research Center)
T_09 URBAN FUTURES: Narratives in planning-on circularity, sustainability
- Varvara Toura
T_09 URBAN FUTURES: Narratives and futuring-specific themes
- PM Ache (Radboud University)
T_09 URBAN FUTURES: Futuring in planning-conceptual dimensions
- PM Ache (Radboud University)
T_09 URBAN FUTURES: Futuring in planning-specific themes
- PM Ache (Radboud University)
T_09 URBAN FUTURES: Transformative actions in planning-dimensions
- Mete Basar BAYPINAR (Istanbul University , Urban Policy Applied Research Center)
T_09 URBAN FUTURES: Transformative actions in collaboration
- Varvara Toura
T_09 URBAN FUTURES: Regenerating the urban-contexts and perspectives
- Varvara Toura
T_09 URBAN FUTURES: L9 - Shaping places-structures, identities and places
- Mete Basar BAYPINAR (Istanbul University , Urban Policy Applied Research Center)
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Dr Anita De Franco (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Polytechnic University of Milan)08/07/2025, 11:00Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Since Leibniz, the conceptual construct of โpossible worldsโ has been widely used to understand what is thinkable, necessary, or contingent. The creation of alternate versions of reality is particularly important for whoever has to test and evaluate different choices, events and natural laws that might exist, so as to examine moral dilemmas and metaphysical questions before putting them into...
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Ms Nika Lindhout (University of Groningen, Faculty of Spatial Sciences)08/07/2025, 11:10Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
The increasing emphasis on participatory planning processes has highlighted the importance of communicative approaches to engage stakeholders (Hajer & Zonneveld, 2000). Within this context, planning theorists have underscored the value of storytelling, both as a tool for and an outcome of planning (see Van Hulst, 2012). This โnarrative turnโ in spatial planning (Ameel et al., 2023) shifts...
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Prof. Karina Landman08/07/2025, 11:20Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Cities and urban spaces worldwide and in South Africa are changing rapidly. New challenges confront planners in dealing with these changes in ways that will consider the future well-being of the planet and its people. Cities, precincts and public spaces need to adapt and transform to address the challenges of rapid urbanisation, densification, climate change, social conflict, exclusion, and...
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Dr Sฤฑla Ceren Varฤฑล Husar (Slovak University of Technology)08/07/2025, 11:30Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Complex interactions between various actors including state institutions, private enterprises and civic organizations shape the socio-spatial transformation of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This study explores the role of innovation as a transformative force in regional futures within the CEE context. The CEE regionโs transition from socialist economies to market-driven development has led...
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Mr Alexandros Mpantogias (School of Architecture, AUTH, Greece)08/07/2025, 14:00Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
In the last four decades and especially during the 21st century we observe a strong interest in discourses, strategies and norms regarding the form and functions of urban areas in a sustainable way (Michalina and al, 2021). Even though in documents of international organizations, such as the Agenda 2030, there is a strong commitment for the equal growth of urban areas despite their economic...
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Camilla Perrone (University of Florence)08/07/2025, 14:10Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Prisons are a space of contemporary periphery neglected and stigmatised in many parts of the world and, in particular, in southern Europe and Italy (Vessella, 2017). Prison architectures are 'introverted' structures (Milhaud, 2017; Moran et Al., 2017); they are often situated in the middle of nowhere and isolated from infrastructural networks and urban and social metabolisms (Infussi, 2020)....
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Elena Ferraioli (Universitร Iuav di Venezia)08/07/2025, 14:20Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
In the contemporary global context, the intensifying climate, environmental, and social crises, combined with unsustainable and linear development models, raise pressing questions about the transformative role of territorial planning. Historically, planning has predominantly been focused on managing urban growth and facilitating spatial expansion, aligning with the dominant economic frameworks...
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Jasmin Baumgartner (Vrije Ujiversiteit Brussel)08/07/2025, 14:30Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
For planning, and planners, a long-standing tension persists between technocratic governance and advocacy for the right to the city (Tasan-Kok et al., 2016). While planning power traditionally manifests through practical tools and legal instruments, its true influence often lies in the pre-implementation stages through narratives and visioning that shape urban futures. This dynamic becomes...
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Ms Urooj Iqbal (School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)08/07/2025, 14:40Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
The concept of โtipping pointsโ has been influential in the literature on the climate crisis. The earliest mention of the metaphor โtipping pointโ was found in studies on racial segregation, where it referred to the factors that triggered the swift departure of the white majority from neighbourhoods in US cities during the 1950s. In the 2000s the use of the term surged significantly,...
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1692. Metropolitan narratives and planning transformation: The cases of Greater Paris and CasablancaMrs Sara Benkirane (Mediations Laboratory, Sorbonne University)08/07/2025, 14:50Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
The metropolis is conceptualised through two contrasting paradigms: its attractiveness, stemming from its centrality within the global urban hierarchy, and its multiple crisesโsocio-spatial segregation, environmental degradation, urban service failures, and political fragmentation (Bassand, 2007). In the context of intensified interurban competition, metropolitan attractiveness is contingent...
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Ms Weiping Cao (Tongji University)08/07/2025, 16:00Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Population and construction land are the two most critical elements in the urbanization process. Their coordinated development is vital to the level and quality of urbanization. Studying the changes in population and construction land during urbanization is conducive to promoting the rational use of resources and sustainable development. With the increasing domestic and global macroeconomic...
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Mr Nikhil Sanjay Shah (DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, IT & the Bartlett DPU, UCL, UK)08/07/2025, 16:10Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Smart cities are a new paradigm of urban developmental transformation in the 21st Century for cities across the world. There is no universally agreed conceptualization or definition of the notion of Smartness and Smart cities, and cities around the world have developed their operational models of Smartness at the intersection of urban planning, technology-based transformations - primarily...
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Dr Zhiqiang Si (Tsinghua University)08/07/2025, 16:20Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
In the wake of advancements in information and intelligent technologies, urban development has transitioned into an era marked by heightened levels of intelligence and modernisation. Academics are now grappling with two fundamental questions: what will future communities resemble, and how can existing communities be progressively transformed to embody these futuristic ideals? Globally,...
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Andresa Ledo Marques (University of Lisbon)08/07/2025, 16:30Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Urban planning is traditionally concerned with envisioning urban futures across different temporal horizons, scales, and value systems. โOfficial imaginariesโ refer to narratives and discourses in policy and planning documents, such as strategic plans, masterplans, and sustainability policies, which shape official discourses directly or indirectly. In urban planning, they reflect dominant...
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Ms Elif Simge Fettahoฤlu Ozgen (Munich Technical University, Istanbul Technical University)08/07/2025, 16:40Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Since the 2010s, Urban Mega Projects (UMPs) have become the dominant mode of Istanbulโs spatial development, driving expansion into its northern territories. The clustered scheme of UMPs - including the Northern Marmara Highway, Istanbul Airport, Kanal ฤฐstanbul, and New Istanbul - represents not only mega-scale spatial interventions but also an unprecedented transformation in speed, scope, and...
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Katharina Mayer (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)08/07/2025, 16:50Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Demographic change, the climate crisis, digitalisation and the change in mobility are among the topics that pose new challenges for local authorities. In particular the rural areas of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate must adapt to changing conditions and develop sustainable development paths. The aim of the research project "Kommune 2050" is to develop a data- and GIS-supported model...
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Prof. Robert Knippschild (Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development & Dresden University of Technology)09/07/2025, 11:00Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Transformative visons and sustainability foresight are discussed as a key factor of urban capacities for sustainability transformation (Wolfram 2016). It is not only the transition management approach that assumes that, following a systemic analysis of the initial situation, a long-term vision of wellbeing while respecting planetary boundaries is required in order to derive the necessary...
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Mikko Airikkala (Aalto University)09/07/2025, 11:10Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Current megatrends such as urbanization, climate and biodiversity crises, and environmental pollution demand humanity to transform its accustomed ways of operating. Responding to these phenomena requires a sustainability transition and transformative change, through which we move to comprehensively sustainable mode of operation in all areas of society. The extent and depth of these changes...
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Valeria Lingua (University of Florence, Department of Architecture)09/07/2025, 11:20Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
This contribution lies on a relational understanding of spatial imaginaries as collective understandings of socio-spatial practices produced through political struggles over the conceptions, perceptions and lived experiences of place (Davoudi, 2018). As an expression of power relations, the need to negotiate different and conflicting spatial imaginaries has emerged in recent planning practices...
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Prof. Jan Schreurs (KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Dept. Architecture)09/07/2025, 11:30Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
The paper digs deep into a case, from the perspective of the project-director of actual developments on the former mine-site in Beringen, a medium-sized city in Flanders (Belgium). Description and evaluation of a work-in-progress serve critical reflection and a proposal for an enriched approach.
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Kleeโs โAngelus Novusโ captures the inevitable drive of progress, looking into the past, turning... -
Ms Saskia Naafs (Utrecht University)09/07/2025, 11:40Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Spatial planning scholars have long emphasized the need for future-oriented and strategic thinking in planning practice (e.g. Couclelis, 2005). Spatial planning requires a future-oriented approach now more than ever, given the growing challenges of climate change and the transformations needed across multiple sectors to achieve sustainability goals. In this paper, I examine how imaginative...
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Mr Akis kalamaras (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece)09/07/2025, 11:50Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
The successive crises of recent years have shaped an environment of uncertainty that tends to constitute a new permanent reality. At the same time, the radical changes that Artificial Intelligence will bring to the entire social process will create a highly competitive economic field. In this new situation, Greek Regions are called upon to transform the methods of developmental policy and to...
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Ms Sophie Leemans (KU Leuven)09/07/2025, 16:30Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Where design is often narrowly interpreted as โgiving shape to thingsโ, its potential goes beyond formgiving. This research specifically focuses on the nexus of research, practice, and policymaking in shaping urban futures and the potential of the designerโs role at this intersection of disciplines and scales.
By revisiting key literature of the recent past and examining a range of...
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Prof. Lea Petroviฤ Krajnik (Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb)09/07/2025, 16:40Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Small and medium-sized towns and cities represent the very important elements of the polycentric urban structure of the European Union. They have a crucial role in regional economic development and social well-being while providing jobs and sustaining local and regional services. Those entities have the possibility to offer good living and working conditions, helping the local community to...
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Ms Eleanor Chapman (Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Technical University of Munich)09/07/2025, 16:50Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Greening projects have begun to dominate urban planning as a presumed โpublic goodโ initiative, carrying with them a wealth of claims to bolster health, well-being and social cohesion. Yet, such projects are often conceived and implemented without attention to their political contexts, ignoring the power asymmetries and injustices inherent in urban governance and the inevitability of winners...
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Mr Deniz รam (Politecnico di Milano), Ms รaฤlanur Kรถsel (Politecnico di Milano)09/07/2025, 17:00Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
In recent years, alongside globalization, the population has been rapidly increasing and cities have been evolving accordingly. This phenomenon has led to urban expansion and intensified pressures on urban areas. As cities expand towards the suburbs, examining suburban areas has become more important for the future of cities. Suburbs are generally consumerist, residential settlements where the...
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Prof. Giovanni Caudo (University of Roma Tre)09/07/2025, 17:10Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) is the most significant economic resource plan ever allocated to Italy. However, it was not developed based on a comprehensive assessment of the needs across various sectors. In Rome, this structural deficiency is especially noticeable. Notable gaps include the lack of funding for Roma camps and anti-violence centres, insufficient efforts to...
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Dr Nuket Ipek Cetin (Gebze Technical University, Urban and Regional Planning Department)09/07/2025, 17:20Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
According to UN-Habitat, over 2 billion people are expected to live in cities worldwide by 2050, which may increase disaster risk from devastating earthquakes and growing threats of floods and landslides, worsened by climate change. This scenario underscores the urgent need for local governments and planning authorities to create inclusive and risk-sensitive urban planning practices that...
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Dr Mina Di Marino (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)10/07/2025, 09:00Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
In the last years, hybridization (or hybridity) has gained a great momentum in our cities and urban regions. However, hybridization is not a recent phenomenon, and it has been discussed since the 1980s. For example, planning and architecture have seen hybridization as a mixture of spatio-functional features (such as mixed use, multi-functionality and flexibility) and social features (such as...
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Dr Zeynep Eraydฤฑn (TED University)10/07/2025, 09:10Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Traditional urban design approaches typically estimate the flow of rivers traversing urban areas using historical data, which forms the basis for developing spatial proposals. However, climate change's observable and escalating impacts have profoundly challenged and reshaped these conventional methodologies. Rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and the increasing frequency of...
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Ms Anika Slawski (TH Lรผbeck, University of Applied Sciences), Prof. Frank Schwartze (TH Lรผbeck, University of Applied Sciences), Ms Vivienne Mayer (TH Lรผbeck, University of Applied Sciences)10/07/2025, 09:20Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
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How can we observe progress in the context of complex, transdisciplinary urban research projects? Each transformative urban development project is embedded in a web of global dynamics, local contexts, and multi-layered funding priorities, making impact monitoring especially challenging. To address this complexity, this contribution proposes an impact-oriented monitoring... -
Khaled Alawadi (Associate Professor)10/07/2025, 09:30Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
The global narrative towards sustainable urbanism presents unique challenges when applied to the distinct context of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) regions. Here, the recent push towards sustainable development is met with critical evaluations regarding its impact and practical effectiveness (Al-Badi & AlMubarak, 2019). Gulf cities have been central to discussions on urban development,...
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Mrs Aida Arik (INRAE)10/07/2025, 09:40Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Addressing complex and multifaceted planning problems requires a deep understanding of the diverse perceptions and ideas that stakeholders hold (Healey, 2009; Innes and Booher, 2015). Still, capturing the range and nuance in perspectives, which is necessary for developing transformative actions, remains a difficult endeavor in research and planning processes. Even after the communicative turn...
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SaeBom Song (Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))10/07/2025, 09:50Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
As cities face growing environmental challenges such as climate change and resource depletion, integrating circular principles into urban systems has become crucial for fostering sustainability and optimizing resource management. This imperative is increasingly advanced through the smart city paradigm, wherein technological innovations are leveraged to enhance the efficiency of circular...
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Mr Antonije ฤatiฤ (PhD Student at University College Dublin)10/07/2025, 11:00Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
The contemporary planning paradigm emphasises the importance of communication, collaboration, and public participation, reframing planners as facilitators and communities as key stakeholders in decision-making processes. This approach seeks to create equitable inclusive spaces for dialogue among diverse stakeholders, focusing on citizens and communities as central players in shaping spatial...
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Ms Yasmine Abdul Ghani (Istanbul Technical University)10/07/2025, 11:10Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, is one of the first smart city models that emerged as an ambitious project, aiming to become the worldโs first carbon-neutral and zero-waste city and seamlessly weave technology into managing its urban fabric. Masdar City aspired to become a tech and economic hub that attracts investors and researchers, and it hoped its sustainability-through-tech mission would inspire...
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Mr Manuel Caldeira (HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management)10/07/2025, 11:20Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Recently, a rich literature on urban experimentation has emerged promising it as a feature to address different agendas: it is seen as a relevant, inclusive, practical and challenging initiative that promotes system innovation and initiates structural change; a central concept in the literature on sustainability transitions; a way to foster social learning in a context of uncertainty and...
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Amor Ariza-รlvarez (Universidad Politรฉcnica de Madrid)10/07/2025, 11:30Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Exploratory scenario-building processes have proven valuable in addressing uncertainty and complexity in urban and transport systems by creating coherent narratives that capture broad trends at global or national scales (Banister & Hickman, 2013; Tuominen et al., 2014; Melander, 2018). However, a significant challenge lies in bridging these exploratory scenario narratives with spatial and...
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Ms Caterina Juric (Politecnico di Torino)10/07/2025, 11:40Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
The growing pressures related to urbanization and environmental challenges, including climate change and intensive land use, make attention to underground spaces crucial as a strategic resource for future cities. Usually analyzed in two dimensions, our metropolises are growing in depth without real structured volumetric urban planning: a systematic criterion for analyzing and understanding the...
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Mr Asef Ayatollahi (Politecnico di Milano)11/07/2025, 09:00Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Human-nature relations in urban areas are one of the complex topics in planning discourse. Global challenges like climate change and warming and, in general, living qualities in cities for both humans and nature add another layer of uncertainty to future calculations. Changes in human living conditions, besides their significant economic effects, pose a threat to the social-ecological system...
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Dr Jeong-Il Park (Keimyung University)11/07/2025, 09:10Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Recent studies underscore a renewed trend toward the re-integration of urban-industrial spaces, particularly emphasizing manufacturing activities (Gornig & Werwatz, 2018; Park, 2023). Scholars highlight that cutting-edge digital technologies are pivotal in enhancing industrial productivity, adopting cleaner and more efficient production techniques, and ultimately fostering the re-integration...
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Dr Ender Peker, Meltem Aykan11/07/2025, 09:20Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Throughout history, as the concept and form of industry have evolved globally, the spatial configuration of industrial areas has undergone significant changes. Moreover, the approach of the industry toward humans, its modes of production, and the shaping of its spaces have transformed through mutual interactions. Industrial areas, which serve as the driving force behind urban services, the...
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Prof. Aleksander Serafin (Lodz University of Technology), Prof. Ana Mafalda Madureira (University of Twente), Prof. Monika Maria Cysek-Pawlak (Lodz University of Technology)11/07/2025, 09:30Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Security is a fundamental and universal human need, yet the perception and importance of it continuously evolve alongside societal changes and urban development. As cities grow and become more complex, the factors influencing our sense of security are constantly shifting. In modern urban environments, security is no longer defined solely by the presence of law enforcement or the absence of...
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Dr Mina Di Marino (Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Dr Tanu Priya Uteng (Institute of Transport Economics)11/07/2025, 09:40Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
This paper is based on a compilation of findings emerging from a series of workshops conducted in Osloโs city region and explores the conceptual framing of โresharingโ through residentsโ and practitionersโ framing of future sharing practices, needs for material and physical access and imageries for sustainable consumption of this city region. We define โresharing as a set of practices where...
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Ms Esin Ozkilic (Urban and Regional Planning Doctoral Program, Graduate School, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkiye; ozkilices@itu.edu.tr https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2044-6642)11/07/2025, 11:00Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Cities facing global warming and economic challenges are exploring various strategies to address these issues. The Circular Economy (CE) offers promising solutions, but the effective integration of its strategy at the urban level remains debated. This research focuses on circular maker spaces that blend new technology with creative industries within the framework of Circular Economy (CE)...
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Ms Maha Attia (Radboud University Nijmegen)11/07/2025, 11:10Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Accessibility planning has become increasingly interdependent. Early research indicated that accessibility is dependent on both the transport and land use systems. Subsequent literature demonstrated that the telecommunication system also significantly impacts accessibility. Furthermore, it is established that accessibility planning is subject to uncertainties, which are intensified by emerging...
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Prof. Jago Dodson (RMIT University)11/07/2025, 11:20Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Since the early-2000s there has been a growing scholarly interest in infrastructure as a social scientific object. The social, political, economic and governmental shaping of cities has been identified as occurring through infrastructure. Building on the foundation provided by socio-technical studies of infrastructure geographers and planners have developed extensive insights into how...
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Mr Job Oberman (University of Amsterdam, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences)11/07/2025, 11:30Track 09 | URBAN FUTURESOral
Throughout Europe, much of urban development has been guided by a planning culture dependent on the automobile regime and centered on efficiency (Urry, 2004; Mattioli et al., 2020). Car dependent planning has contributed to creating a lock-in; which functions as a barrier to sustainable alternatives (Seto et al., 2016). A more transformative mindset could provide possible pathways to unlock...
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