Dealing with contaminated sites is a complex and, as has become evident, long-term problem for our society.

Small Towns and Metropolitan Cores: Towards Cooperation? - statements by members of our working group on various aspects of the topic of small towns.

Our international working group „Small towns and metropolitan cores: towards cooperation?“ met again! A hybrid meeting of the group took place at the end of September (21-23.09) at the ARL Headquarters in Hanover, Germany.

"If possible, please turn around!"
Research and Planning for the Sustainability Turn

The winners of the video challenge have been announced! Watch the videos here.

In both countries, France and Germany, there is great pressure to change and adapt towards new forms of urbanity and to conceive new strategic approaches with limited public finance and a need for economic efficiency. Not all types of urban areas are equally affected by these issues. The book aims to do justice to this situation, considering in both cases the context of the national urban systems.

Pre-announcement: The Research Report of the ARL "Cities and Metropolises in France and Germany" will be published shortly! 

Cast Your Vote! Watch the videos of the 2022 PhD Video Challenge and help decide which one will receive the People’s Award prize. The winner of the People’s Vote will receive a prize of €400. 

Urban and regional infrastructures regain interdisciplinary interest in course of the ‘infrastructural turn’. Contemporary questions exceed beyond engineering and technology but reach into social, political, economic, and ecological spheres. 

You can participate for free in the workshops on Socially Responsible Research for PostDocs and Docs, being part of the LeNa Shape research project. 

The kick-off workshop took place in the Hochschule für Gesundheit in the City of Bochum, from 19 to 20 September. Find out about the working group's plans for the coming years. 

Annual Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR 2023)

VENUE: Hosted by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA

TIME: 2 - 5. May 2023, PhD workshop on 1 May 2023

The ARL International Working Group on Land Policies in Europe is currently preparing two significant milestones.

We heartily invite you to join us as we celebrate this anniversary milestone and be eligible for many of the gifts we are offering such as arl-international.com packages with calendars, photo books, postcards and much more.  

This first conference on ‘Integrated Earth System Research’ (iESR) is dedicated to scientific advances towards a coherent understanding of the increasing human impacts on the Earth system, their societal consequences, and respective governance challenges. It brings together researchers from the natural, engineering, social sciences and the humanities for targeted dialogue and to intensify research collaboration. 

The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) in collaboration with the Department of European Planning Cultures (TU Dortmund) are pleased to invite you to the Workshop "PLACE Reimagining Public Space Designing and Planning for COVID-19 - Implication on Health and Wellbeing", which will take place online on March 6-7 2023.

Novel Narratives to Engage with the Energy Transition

Bridges the gap between the world of renewable energy and the world of spatial designers

Lignite planning, structural change and coal phase-out in Germany

„Advancing Green Infrastructure Planning in the Alpine region“ – Thematic workshop and general assembly of the AlpPlan network on 07 and 08 November 2022 in Vienna (hybrid event)

The ARL invites to the international conference Spatial Planning and Research in Europe 1945-1975 on 6-7 October 2022 in Berlin.

The Department of Geography within the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Bonn has an opening with intended start date 10/01/2023 for the position of Professor of Geography (W3) specialized in Applied Urban and Regional Research

Digitalisation – Challenges for Spatial Development. A retrospective on the ARL Congress 2022.

‘Exploring Spatial Justice in times of disruptions’ 
24 August to 27 August 2022 at Stockholm University

New Ukrainien cities and villages start here!

ReStart Ukraine is an open (source) collective of researchers and practitioners that would begin exploring and developing the best ways to restore afflicted urban and rural areas after destruction of such scale.

For this position paper, the ARL compiled interdisciplinary perspectives from spatial development and spatial planning, public health services, epidemiology, economics and social sciences, and has condensed them into transdisciplinary recommendations for action.