ARL Network Activities

The 2023 ARL Congress will focus on a multi-perspective view of the relationships between mobility and accessibility and various aspects of social parti

A SMART future? Digitalisation: Challenges for spatial development. 30 June to 1 July 2022 in Bielefeld (Germany)

Planning: between protests and calls to pick up the pace
18-19 April 2024 at the media docks in Lübeck

Border Futures – Zukunft Grenze – Avenir Frontière. Future viability of cross-border cooperation.

COMPASS - Comparative Analysis of Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems in Europe

Development of strategic plans for the use of corridor effects. Strengthening of (logistic) locations.

The TEN-T Corridor Orient/East-Mediterranean (OEM) Hamburg-Athens is of utmost importance for the cohesion of Europe.

Gender in Spatial Development – Perspectives, Similarities and Differences.

Spatial Transformation Processes of Energy Transition – Analytical and Design Perspectives from Gender Studies in Spatial Planning

Innovative approaches to services of general interest in rural areas. What Germany can learn from the experience of other european countries.

Challenges of land policy. An international working group.

Which synergies can be identified between different land uses and the provision of flood storage and ecosystem services?

The ARL has set up an inter- and transdisciplinary ad hoc working group on "Pandemics and Spatial Development".

A current inventory of the state of the art in international planning theory. A basis for further professional discourse.

Small towns and metropolitan cores: towards cooperation? A European perspective.

Spatial planning is typically European in its attempt to shape the development of societies by ordering their territories.

Exploring Spatial Justice in times of disruptions

The topic of the summer school is “A CONTESTED RELATIONSHIP? Urbanisation & the Digital, vs. Digitalisation & the Urban”.