Urbanisation & Demographic Change

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Sessions

Session: Conviviality and/or confrontation? Ethnic, cultural and political diversity in public space
Chairs: Thomas Schmitt & Daniel Hiebert
 
Session: Do borders make regions learn?
Chairs: H. Peter Dörrenbächer & Tobias Chilla
 
Session: Global winners and local losers? - Regeneration strategies in shrinking cities
Chairs: Thorsten Wiechmann & Sylvie Fol
 
Session: Health and sustainability in the cities of the future – the impacts of urban environments, urban green and urban blue elements
Chairs: Thomas Claßen & Richard Mitchell
 
Session: How European towns deal with peripheralization – different action strategies and comparable structural baselines
Chairs: Thomas Bürk &Hanna Sommer
 
Session: International migration and `glocal´ spaces of vulnerability
Chairs: Benjamin Etzold & Tabea Bork
 
Session: Learning beyond borders: Exploring the spatialities of international student mobility
Chairs: Maggi Leung & Johanna Waters
 
Session: Local camps for global migrants: EU’s geographies of detention and deportation
Chair: Corey Johnson & Ulrich Ermann
 
Session: Managing changes in cultural heritage cities of South-East Asia
Chairs: MOHAMMAD GAMAL RINDARJONO & Thean Siew Tan
 
Session: Megacities: Informal dynamics of global change
Chairs: Peter Herrle & Kraas Frauke
 
Session: Megacity research for government action
Chairs: Eckart Ehlers & Andrea Koch-Kraft
 
Session: Mega events, globalization and urban development
Chairs: Mark Wilson & Laura Huntoon
 
Session: (Mega)urban health in South Asia
Chairs: Mareike Kroll & Carsten Butsch
 
Session: Migration trends of the baby boomer generation.
Chair: Caroline Kramer & Carmella Pfaffenbach
 
Session: Multi-local living arrangements on national, inter- and transnational levels: a new old phenomenon?
Chairs: Caroline Kramer & Gerald Wood

Session: Natururbanisation: Urbanisation in nature and environment conflicts
Chairs: MARÍA-JOSÉ PRADOS & Julia Lourenço
 
Session: Neighborhood governance under conditions of globalization – An international perspective
Chairs: Matthias Drilling & Olaf Schnur
 
Session: Neoliberal urban transformation processes in the Arab World
Chairs: Ala Al-Hamarneh & Leila Vignal
 
Session: Old and new mobilities in Asia: challenges for geographical development research
Chair: Matthias Schmidt & Basabi Khan Banerjee
 
Session: Re-ordering the city - Neoliberalization, travelling policies and local context
Chairs: Kevin Ward & Iris Dzudzek
 
Session: Revolution or transformation? The rise of supermarkets and malls in developing countries and their urban and social impact
Chairs: Ulrich Juergens & Ronnie Donaldson
 
Session: Spatial analysis and modeling of the human-environment interface of urban areas
Chairs: Tobia Lakes & Lex Comber
 
Session: Spatial justice in cities in the South: what can spatializing information tools contribute to urban governance networks?
Chairs: Isa Baud & Yola Georgiadou
 
Session: Strategic urban planning for sustainable development: Methods and experiences
Chairs: Jonathan Barton & Volker Stelzer
 
Session: Sustainable urban environments for the future
Chairs: Martin Sauerwein & Juergen Breuste
 
Session: The ‘migration & development-hype’ and its implications for geographical research
Chairs: Martin Geiger & Malte Steinbrink
 
Session: The mobility of human capital and knowledge
Chairs: Harald Bauder & Stefanie Foebker
 
Session: The non-/viability of “informality” – Taking critical stock of a contested concept
Chairs: Markus Keck & Harald Sterly
 
Session: The Socio-spatial reconfiguration in Gulf Arab cities
Chairs: Belgacem Mokhtar & Montasser Abdelghani
 
Session: Towards a new centrality of world society: Future faces and functions of urban centres in the 21st Century
Chairs: Ilse Helbrecht & Peter Dirksmeier
 
Session: Towards a process-based understanding of spatiality: new perspectives on dissolving the rural-urban divide
Chairs: Annett Steinführer & Thilo Lang
 
Session: Un pont sur le fossé ? Le rôle des villes moyennes comme intermédiaire entre déprise rurale et mégapoles.
Session: Andreas Obersteg & Christophe Demazière
 
Session: Uneven geography of power: The production of ‘dominant spaces’ in urban environments
Chairs: Kirsten Hackenbroch & Shahadat Hossain
 
Session: Urban health services in megacities
Chairs: Jürgen Schweikart & Christoph Höser
 
Session: Urban informality as post-socialist routine?
Chairs: Daniel Goeler &Bernhard Köppen
 
Session: Urban poverty – Conceptions of everyday life under persistent conditions of inequality
Chairs: Ulrike Gerhard & Eberhard Rothfuss
 
Session: Urban utopias and heterotopias: Theorizing, analyzing, and evaluating urban spaces
Chairs: Christina West & Thomas Doerfler