YA Conference 2027 Bari

Contribution List

57. A Participatory Turn – Citizen Participation in Urban development during the 1970s in Hamburg and London

Anna-Christina Berger (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

During the socio-political upheavals of the late 1960s and 1970s, Western planning authorities faced unprecedented challenges to their established decision-making authority. While research has widely examined the democratic aspirations of the 1968 student movement, the subsequent democratic mobilization of the broader public and its direct disruption of local administrative power relations...

94. Activating lasting change? The role of street experiments in mobility space redesign projects

Mr Gunnar Grandel (TU Wien, MOVE)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

The urgency of the climate crisis demands a transformation of urban mobility, and reallocating street space from traffic to people plays a key role in this. Yet such reallocations are often met with political resistance, financial constraints, and regulatory obstacles. In response, there has been a turn towards experimental approaches: In the last decade, street experiments such as tactical...

65. Ambiguity and collaborative planning: Framing sustainable transformation in Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans guidelines.

Mrs Zayra Castillo (Hafencity University Hamburg)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Introduction
Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, commonly referred to as SUMP, have become an important policy instrument for promoting more sustainable urban mobility in the European Union. The SUMP framework was developed within European urban mobility policy to support integrated, strategic, and participatory planning across sectors, governance levels, and stakeholder groups, and has...

56. Anticipating the flexibility and adaptability of disaster recovery planning in urban contexts: the management of uncertainties following a disaster

Ms Clara Allyojghazi (Gustave Eiffel University (France) and Mons University (Belgium))

Track 1 | Risks and adaptations: planning scenarios

Qualitative

Keywords : Disaster recovery planning, urban planning, planning tools, flexibility, adaptability

Planning for disaster recovery in urban contexts means navigating multiple uncertainties inherent both to the disaster recovery process and the planning designed for. Anticipating decision-making frameworks appears to be one way of thinking through planning territories in relation to disaster...

15. Beyond Permanence: Tracing Continuity, Transfer, and Planning-System Learning after Temporary Urban Interventions

Leila Soltani

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Introduction and Research Problem
Temporary urban interventions have become an increasingly common way of testing changes in public space before committing to longer-term forms of urban transformation. Their appeal lies partly in their reversibility: a proposed spatial arrangement can be introduced, observed in use, discussed with local actors, and modified before a more permanent decision is...

24. Beyond Titling: Land Regularization and Territorial Incompleteness in Salvador, Brazil

Mr Bernardo Giesta Romano (Brazilian Institute of Real Estate Law – IBDI)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Introduction and research problem

Urban land regularization is frequently understood as a legal, cadastral, or tenure-security intervention aimed at bringing informal settlements into the formal property system. In many cities of the Global South, however, this interpretation captures only part of the planning problem. Long-established urban territories may be physically consolidated,...

68. Bridging Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Policy: An Evaluation of Post-Disaster Transformation Models in Kahramanmaraş

Erva Dilara Toprak (Middle East Technical University)

Track 1 | Risks and adaptations: planning scenarios

Introduction and Research Problem

Cities are increasingly at the forefront of compounding and cascading threats, where the accelerating effects of climate change combine with natural disasters. According to Wen et al. (2023), human-driven global surface temperatures increased by an estimated 1.1 °C between 1850-1900 and 2010-2019, with subsequent decades regularly setting warming...

17. Buying where you cannot live: Holding middle-class position across space

Nadav Penn (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Introduction and research problem
A growing share of young adults are renting the home they live in while owning a home they have no intention of ever living in. This is the new tenure position of renter-owners, a solution to the impossibility of becoming an owner-occupier. Owner-occupancy has been a marker of stability and of middle-class position throughout the post-war period (Benson &...

160. Climate-Sensitive School Walking Routes: Integrating Walkability and Outdoor Thermal Comfort Analysis for Climate-Responsive Urban Planning

Mujesira Bakovic Ergün (PhD)

Track 1 | Risks and adaptations: planning scenarios

Quantitative

Introduction and Research Problem

Climate change is increasing the frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme heat events, posing significant challenges for urban environments. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect further amplifies these challenges by elevating temperatures in densely built areas where impervious surfaces, limited vegetation, and urban morphology influence local...

31. Co-creating under everyday uncertainty: Participation, experimentation and shared-space governance in social housing

GODA LUKOSEVICIUTE (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER))

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Introduction and research problem
Participatory planning and co-creation increasingly seek to involve residents directly in shaping their living environments. Living labs extend this ambition by situating participation in real-life settings and organising it around experimentation, learning and iteration (Steen & van Bueren, 2017; Voytenko et al., 2016). Urban experimentation similarly...

124. Common Oversights: Collective Tenure and Conservation Access in the Alabama Black Belt

Mr Samuel Maddox (Harvard University)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Introduction and Research Problem

What becomes visible when scientists map a prairie? Which relations do they obscure, and which conditions do they privilege? This paper examines how the production of ecological knowledge and the organization of conservation assistance shape access to the Alabama Black Belt Prairie Initiative (ABBPI), a five-year-long, $17.5-million program to restore...

23. Contested Transition Pathways: Planning, Local Knowledge and the Water Buffalo Commons in Istanbul

Ms Ria Tursan

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Theory

Introduction

Northern Istanbul represents a distinct post-extractive landscape spanning approximately 70 km², stretching from Lake Terkos in the west to Çiftalan village in the east. Beginning in the 1910s with open-pit coal mining in Ağaçlı village, the region underwent continuous cycles of resource extraction, including lignite, clay, sand dredging and stone quarrying. These...

170. Exploring adolescent independent mobility through the lens of justice in Turin

Dr Aida Shaneh (Politecnico di Torino)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Abstract
Mobility is a vital aspect of daily life that influences social inclusion, access to opportunities, and overall well-being, however, opportunities for adolescents to move independently are not equally experienced. Building on a multidimensional mobility justice framework encompassing distributive, procedural, recognitional, and restorative justice, the research aims to evaluate...

116. Exploring Futures: Governing Long-Term Social-ecological Dynamics Through an Exploratory Bio-Digital Twin

Dr Asef Ayatollahi (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano)

Track 4 | Uncertainty in model-mediated and data-intensive planning environments

Complexity in contemporary urban areas, profound uncertainty regarding future intervention outcomes, and the multi-decade social-ecological implications of strategic planning policies are increasingly central to spatial planning discourse and remain essential for transformative adaptation. Despite this urgent necessity, traditional urban planning systems predominantly rely on rigid, top-down,...

38. From Conceived to Lived Space: Gendered Everyday Negotiation of an Authoritarian Territorial Plan in a Francoist Colonisation Village (Galicia, Spain)

Manuel García Gándaras

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Between 1939 and the late 1960s, the Spanish Francoist regime carried out one of twentieth-century Europe's largest state-led rural territorial transformations through its Instituto Nacional de Colonización (National Institute of Colonisation, INC): entire villages were designed, built and populated according to a centrally conceived plan that redistributed land, relocated families and imposed...

11. From Cultural Knowledge to Planning Evidence: Tracing Uncertainty in a Shanshui-Informed Digital Planning Model

Ms Tingjun Luo (Southeast University)

Track 4 | Uncertainty in model-mediated and data-intensive planning environments

Theory

Introduction and research problem

Digital planning increasingly relies on GIS, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to transform complex environmental and spatial information into classifications, indicators, weights, and spatial models. These techniques strengthen the operational capacity of planning by producing apparently precise maps, scores, and decision rules. Yet...

150. From Hybrid Mobility Transition to Spatial Transformation: An Empirical Study in Madrid

Karina Mendoza-Llontop (Centro de Investigación del Transporte (TRANSyT). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Key words: urban space; mobility transitions; spatial transformation; platform urbanism; teleactivities

Introduction and Research Problem

Urban space has traditionally been planned and organised around conventional mobility systems, with streets, public spaces, transport nodes, and buildings designed to accommodate established forms of...

26. From Institutional Frictions to Project Trajectories: Implementation Decisions in Urban Transformation under Uncertainty

Ms Fatime Ates (Mersin University)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

EXTENDED ABSTRACT
Keywords:Urban transformation; implementation decisions; project trajectories

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Introduction and research problem

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Urban transformation in Türkiye has been widely examined through changes in legal and institutional frameworks, shifts in authority between central and local governments, property-led development and...

117. From leisure to everyday cycling: transition pathways for territorial regeneration in low-density regions

Mr Francesco Mauro (UniPD)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Theory

Introduction and research problem
Low-density territories are among the most widespread settlement forms in Europe, yet they still sit awkwardly within planning categories designed either for compact cities or for marginal inner areas. The "città diffusa" of Central Veneto (Indovina, 1990, 2009), the "nevelstad" of Flanders (Dehaene & Loopmans, 2003) and the plain of Thessaly share a common...

103. From Smart City to Algorithmic City: Governing Uncertainty in Model Mediated Planning

Prof. Gizem Erdoğan Aydın (İzmir Democracy University)

Track 4 | Uncertainty in model-mediated and data-intensive planning environments

Theory

Introduction and research problem
Planning scholarship has increasingly described a conceptual progression from the smart city, understood as a city instrumented with pervasive digital devices, to the data-driven city, in which vast troves of urban data are generated and analyzed in real time, and further to the algorithmic city, in which governance itself is delegated to software-mediated...

20. From technical readiness to citizen readiness: Introducing citizens’ voices in local energy transition processes

Ms Cathrine Winther Skytte (Aalborg University), Ms Nanna Finne Skovrup (Aalborg University)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Keywords: Power-to-X; Participatory planning; Citizen readiness; Place-based transitions

From technical readiness to citizen readiness: Introducing citizens’ voices in local energy transition processes

Introduction and research problem
The transition towards renewable energy and new energy infrastructure is increasingly shaping the future of today's ports. As central nodes for...

62. From Values to Variables: Making the good city computable

Ms Vladislava Sudakova (Center for the Development of Urban Territories of the City of Yaroslavl)

Track 4 | Uncertainty in model-mediated and data-intensive planning environments

Qualitative

Keywords: computational planning; computational legibility; operationalisation; algorithmic governance

Introduction and Research Problem

Digital planning tools are now used to analyse urban conditions, while scenario approaches allow planners to compare alternative development scenarios (Abou Jaoude et al., 2022; Son et al., 2023). Algorithmic methods add a further layer by...

73. From water discharge to water retention: a comparative case study of the governance of drought adaptation in the Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium)

Fenna Vesters (PhD Candidate)

Track 1 | Risks and adaptations: planning scenarios

Qualitative

Key words: drought adaptation, policy arrangements, water retention, uncertainty, comparative case study

Introduction
Drought adaptation requires space for water retention measures in rural areas (Pan et al., 2018). Due to the high population density in urbanizes areas such as the Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium), these spatial measures affect many different actors and sectors...

112. Governing everyday uncertainty: Strategic compliance and neighbourhood change in China’s micro-regeneration

Dr Manqi Wang (The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Introduction and research problem
Micro-regeneration offers a compelling promise for historic neighbourhoods: improving their physical environment while retaining buildings, supporting everyday life and allowing residents to participate in change. Yet the preservation of a neighbourhood’s appearance provides only a partial basis for assessing the security of its future. Residents, public...

13. Listening to Everyday Uncertainty: A Scoping Review of Intergenerational Difference in Community Soundscape Planning

Ms Adina-Iuliana Deacu (Zhejiang University / Tianmei World Academy)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Theory

Introduction and research problem
Urban community spaces are shared by people whose daily rhythms, sensory capacities and expectations may differ considerably. Courtyards, neighbourhood parks, playgrounds, walking routes and community squares must accommodate rest, play, exercise, conversation, social gatherings and circulation, often within limited space. The sounds accompanying these...

180. Making sense of the Functional Urban Area: Diverse Approaches in Defining and Institutionalising the Territorial Scope of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans in European Cities.

Mr Vedant Shripad Vyas (PhD Candidate at Urban and Regional Development, Politecnico Di Torino)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Introduction and Research Problem
Over the past decade, the rise of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) has shifted European mobility planning discourse from “traditional transport planning” to an interdisciplinary, integrated mobility approach oriented towards accessibility and quality of life. Through its various channels, the European Commission promotes the SUMP as a principal...

186. Navigating uncertainty in logistics-led development and planning: institutional fragmentation and everyday exposure in Italy

Dr Alena Myshko (CORE Venice Lab)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Introduction
Logistics has become one of the main forces reshaping peripheral territories in Italy, where the sector accounts for over 8% of GDP and about 1.4 million jobs. For planning, logistics nodes are a typical wicked problem. Investments are long-lived and land-consuming; flows and tenants change with global supply-chain strategies; funding arrives in windows that do not match planning...

93. Neutrality, Control and Directionlessness: Bureaucratic Encounters and how the Unmaking of a Democratisation Agenda in Amsterdam is Hindering Transformative Governance Capacities

Mr Max Smit (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Introduction and research problem
Planning is expected to contribute to solutions for the polycrisis, yet planning is itself widely diagnosed as being in crisis (Davoudi, 2023). Professional and public trust has declined, and the field is criticised for failing to produce sufficient positive change (Albrechts, 2015; Rydin, 2013). Democratisation figures ambiguously in this diagnosis: the...

48. Planning by Refusal: The Hermitage Barcelona Controversy and the Transformation of Waterfront Governance

Dr Alejandra Linares Figueruelo (Universitat de Barcelona)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Extended abstract

Introduction and research problem

Post-industrial waterfronts are recurrent laboratories for urban change. Port restructuring, tourism, public-space renewal and culture-led development are frequently assembled into projects presented as transitions towards a more attractive, connected or knowledge-based city. Yet the language of transition can conceal continuity: a new...

4. Planning safety through mobility justice: What can existing reviews tell us about gendered violence and safety in urban mobility systems?

Pratishtha Singh (The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Introduction and research problem
Safe mobility is fundamental to health, wellbeing, and participation in urban life. The ability to move safely through public space influences access to employment, education, healthcare, caregiving responsibilities, social networks, and civic participation. While mobility is often analysed through transport accessibility, service provision, and...

89. Planning with Non-Detection: Making Uncertainty Explicit in Spatial Screening for Submerged Archaeology

Mr Arman Askari Nazari (University of Seville)

Track 4 | Uncertainty in model-mediated and data-intensive planning environments

Qualitative

Spatial planning increasingly relies on geospatial datasets, models, and decision-support systems to determine where attention, investigation, and resources should be concentrated. Yet data-intensive approaches can create a misleading impression of certainty when observations are incomplete, unevenly distributed, or collected using methods with different capacities to detect the phenomenon of...

34. Reading Permission from Space: Everyday Uncertainty and the Negotiation of Publicness in London's Creative Clusters

Ms Seolhyun Hwang (University College London)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Keywords: everyday publicness; creative clusters; place-shaping; governance legibility; non-consumptive lingering

Introduction and research problem

Creative clusters are assessed mainly as economic formations and branding strategies, with far less attention to the public spaces they produce and the terms on which people can use them. Yet these spaces are where the uncertainties...

169. Reading the Fingerprint of Place: Everyday Knowledge and Planning Uncertainty in a Minority Community

Mrs Omayya Abujabal (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Planning in minority communities requires attention not only to physical and spatial conditions but also to the social relations, everyday practices, and meanings through which residents experience and understand place (Jabareen, 2014; Totry-Fakhoury & Alfasi, 2017). These dimensions may be particularly important in contexts where access to land, housing opportunities, and future development...

99. Red Spatial Planning: Territorial Research and the Cybernetic Administration of Uncertainty in the GDR

Marlon Brownsword (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Track 4 | Uncertainty in model-mediated and data-intensive planning environments

Qualitative

Introduction and research problem
Raumplanung, the German term for spatial planning, became established as a distinct academic and administrative field in West Germany – the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) – during the 1960s. Forms of institutionalised spatial governance had existed considerably earlier, but it was during this period that many of the institutions, methods and...

80. Regional Cooperations’ Adaptation to Geopolitical Changes: A Focus on the Mediterranean Macro-Region

Ms Cemre Ay (Politecnico di Torino - PhD Student)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Introduction and research problem
European Union Macro-Regional Strategies (MRS) have emerged as an innovative framework of territorial governance, designed to address shared challenges across transnational spaces characterized by common geographical, economic, and political features. Unlike traditional EU policy instruments, MRS operate under the Three-No principle – no new funds, no new...

8. Relocating Uncertainty: Evaluating Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Participatory Planning Processes

Mr Tiernan FitzLarkin (Ulster University)

Track 4 | Uncertainty in model-mediated and data-intensive planning environments

Qualitative

Introduction

The planning process is characterised by persistent challenges in attaining meaningful public outcomes. How participatory processes are operationalised is one of those enduring challenges, contributing to a lack of trust and to engagement that is often perceived as ineffective by the broader public (Crawford et al., 2020). The emergence of digital planning has not resolved...

61. Repositioning geodesign through a deliberative lens: Evidence from three NBS workshops

Mr Antonije Catic (University College Dublin)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Introduction

Nature-based solutions (NBS) address climate mitigation and adaptation while delivering environmental, social and economic benefits (Seddon et al., 2020; European Commission, 2016). Because they cut across sectors and directly affect communities, citizen participation is considered necessary to facilitate the process. Participation in NBS planning brings local knowledge...

59. Simulating the City: How City-Building Games Translate and Redistribute Planning Uncertainty

Emel Uçak (Middle East Technical University; Kirklareli University)

Track 4 | Uncertainty in model-mediated and data-intensive planning environments

Qualitative

Introduction and research problem
Urban planning operates through incomplete knowledge, competing objectives, uncertain forecasts, and interactions among institutions, communities, markets, infrastructures, and environmental systems. Therefore, uncertainty is produced through disagreements over goals and means, changing conditions, distributed authority, and the limited capacity to anticipate...

188. Steering committees or steering communities? Navigating transitions in port city territories through a Common Pool Resource approach

Dr Silvia Sivo (Leiden University)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Port-city territories are physically and conceptually crucial frontiers in a wide range of transition processes, whether relating to energy, digitalisation, the circular economy, mobility, or the development of urban services in the areas where cities and ports meet (Hein, 2011). In particular, transition discourses in planning and policies define these contexts as strategic locations for the...

55. Stigmatized Borders, Stretched Thresholds: Negotiating Urban Citizenship in Romani Neighborhoods

Ms Ozge Tekce Demirkol (Istanbul Technical University)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Introduction
This study positions everyday uncertainty not merely as an unintended byproduct of urban fragility or abstract risk, but as a deliberate management strategy produced and distributed through contemporary planning decisions. In cities like Istanbul, where urban land values are acutely high, spatial restructuring serves global economic integration and capital accumulation,...

165. Street experiments as a discursive instrument in urban transitions

Ms Mareike Schmidt (Technical University of Munich, School of Engineering and Design, Professorship of Urban Design, Germany)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Disrupting everyday routines, street experiments are meant to initiate public debates and often provoke contestation among residents(Klaever et al., 2024; Verlinghieri et al., 2024). Thus, they contribute to how discourses on urban mobility transition evolve and how they influence planning and policy making. Several works on discourses on urban mobility transition showed that they mostly...

132. Testing Before Committing? Public Acceptance and Mobility Behaviour Change in Temporary and Permanent Street Redesigns

Mrs Angelina Atanova (Technical Universoty of Munich, Germany; ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Planning, Dortmund, Germany)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Quantitative

Keywords: street experiments; street space reallocation; public acceptance; mobility behaviour change; temporality

Many cities aim to shift away from car-oriented regimes by reallocating street space from motorised vehicles to greenery, active mobility, public transport and social uses to transition to a more sustainable mobility regime. Two approaches dominate this practice: temporary...

47. The Sense-Ability of Emergence: Relational Digital Twins in Conditions of Uncertainty

Mr Matthew Ferguson (City of Cape Town)

Track 4 | Uncertainty in model-mediated and data-intensive planning environments

Theory

Keywords: relational planning; digital twins; uncertainty; municipal governance; sense-ability
Introduction and research problem
Cities are increasingly understood through data. Digital twins, artificial intelligence, remote sensing and predictive analytics promise more complete representations of urban reality, offering planners the possibility of anticipating change before it...

64. Time Workers Without Legitimacy: How Temporal Knowledge Loses Legitimacy Across Governance Scales

Emil Høg (Phd fellow)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Theory

Introduction and Research Problem
As municipalities struggle to meet national climate goals, urban mobility has become an increasingly critical frontline for sustainable transitions. However, mobility planning remains largely conceptualised, debated, and analysed as a zero-sum allocation of urban space. When policies propose removing parking spaces to establish bicycle lanes, or widening...

120. Tracing Paranoia Sociopolitical anxiety in Israeli Architecture: A Study of Technical Drawings

Mr Osama Abu Jaber

Track 1 | Risks and adaptations: planning scenarios

Theory

Extended Abstract

Introduction

Planning under uncertainty is often discussed through scenarios, forecasting, resilience, and the anticipation of future risks. This paper approaches uncertainty from a different direction: not as a temporary lack of knowledge to be overcome, but as a condition that can become normalized, institutionalized, and eventually embedded within ordinary...

43. Transformative Capacity of Shrinking Cities for Urban Climate Governance: A Space-Sensitive Literature Review with thematic synthesis on spatial paradigms and potentials

Linda Maiwald (Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER Dresden)/ Dresden University of Technology)

Track 1 | Risks and adaptations: planning scenarios

Theory

Introduction
Urban climate governance has become a central topic in academic and public discourse, yet its intricate relationship with structural factors, particularly spatial configurations, remains underexplored. This is especially pertinent for shrinking cities, which face unique challenges stemming from economic, demographic, institutional, and spatial decline across different scales....

79. Transforming from below: boundary work and multi-system interactions in the urban underground

Dr Shana Debrock, Dr Joeri Naus

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

The subsurface is the invisible infrastructure of life, supporting ecosystems by filtering water, cycling nutrients, and sustaining biodiversity. Yet in urban environments, the subsurface is frequently degraded, sealed, and treated as residual space for infrastructure that is inconvenient to accommodate above ground. At the same time, urban soil and subsurface space are increasingly scarce...

53. Translating Child-Friendly Cities into Spatial Planning: Policy Evidence from China

Ms Jiewen Li (Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool)

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Since UNICEF advanced the concept of child-friendly cities (CFC) and launched the Child Friendly Cities Initiative in 1996 (UNICEF, 1996), a growing number of countries and cities have adopted child-friendliness as an objective in their planning policies (Malone, 2006). Yet children continue to face constraints on independent mobility (Shaw et al., 2015), access to public space (Pitsikali et...

177. Translating Urban Climate Shelters Across Hazards and Contexts: Lessons from Flood-Prone Rio do Sul, Brazil

Ms Bruna Pincegher (Politecnico di Torino)

Track 1 | Risks and adaptations: planning scenarios

Qualitative

Keywords: urban climate shelters; policy translation; climate adaptation; planning under uncertainty

Climate shelters have gained attention as urban responses to extreme heat, particularly in European cities where schools, libraries, parks and civic facilities are being adapted to provide accessible spaces of thermal protection. Their emergence reflects a broader shift from temporary,...

12. When Models Disagree: Analytical Uncertainty and Evidence-Informed Urban Energy Planning Evidence from a Multi-Scalar Comparison of Ankara and Dublin

Dr ASLI HAVLUCU OGUZ (Yozgat Bozok Üniversitesi)

Track 4 | Uncertainty in model-mediated and data-intensive planning environments

Urban planning is increasingly expected to contribute to climate mitigation through decisions concerning urban form, housing, infrastructure and the spatial organisation of everyday life. This expectation has simultaneously increased reliance on quantitative models and data-intensive methods to identify where and how planning interventions can reduce energy demand. The relationship between...

39. When Regeneration Creates Uncertainty: Lived Experiences of Housing in a Low-Income Neighbourhood in Tehran

Dr Morteza hadi Jaberi moghaddam

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Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Extended Abstract
Introduction and Research Problem
Urban regeneration is often presented as a necessary response to physical deterioration, inadequate housing conditions, declining neighbourhood environments, and the need to improve urban infrastructure. In many regeneration policies, however, neighbourhoods are primarily understood through physical and economic indicators, such as building...

105. Who Gets to Drive the Transition? Gender, Livelihoods and Justice in India's Emerging Electric Mobility Landscape

Fathima Zehba Maanjeri Puthusery

Track 2 | Transitions or transformations? Facing and activating change

Qualitative

Introduction and research problem:

India’s transition towards electric mobility is frequently presented as a technological, environmental and infrastructural transformation. Yet transitions in urban transport also raise questions about who participates in emerging mobility systems, who benefits from them, and under what conditions. This is particularly significant for women, whose mobility...

66. Who Gets to Stay? Planning, Everyday Uncertainty, and Unequal Publicness in a Chilean Civic Square

Juan Sebastián Urzúa-Pineda (Universidad del Bío Bío)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Introduction and research problem

Uncertainty has become a central concern in planning scholarship, commonly associated with incomplete knowledge, changing socio-ecological conditions, institutional instability, or the difficulty of anticipating future urban trajectories (Ruiz Sánchez & Musco, 2021). Yet uncertainty is also experienced at a much smaller temporal and spatial scale: in the...

33. Who is free to stay? Spatial conditions, freedom of use and everyday safety in Tirana’s public spaces

Ms Sindi Doce (Polis University)

Track 3 | Everyday uncertainty: creating and negotiating places of change

Qualitative

Introduction and research problem
Public space is often defined by accessibility. A space is public because it is open and available to people in principle. In our cities, even though accessibility is formally guaranteed, it does not imply that these spaces have the same capacity to be used. Publicness also depends on the extent to which spatial characteristics allow different people to...

88. Whose Voice, Whose Data, Whose Decision? A Critical Scoping Review of Artificial Intelligence in Participatory Planning

İrem Özdarendeli (Urban Designer), Ekin Güneş Şanlı Aydın

Track 4 | Uncertainty in model-mediated and data-intensive planning environments

Qualitative

Introduction and Research Problem
Public participation is expected to democratise planning by bringing experiential, local, and marginalised knowledge into decisions that shape places. Arnstein (1969) argued that participation can remain tokenistic when it does not redistribute power. Its democratic quality therefore depends not only on who is invited, but also on who frames the problem,...