The special issue in European Journal on Spatial Development is an outcome of the Summer School 2022.

What does mobility have to do with social justice and how is mobility related to topics like sustainability, gender or accessibility? And how can we plan socially just and ecologically responsible mobility?

The AlpPlan Summer Course 2023 brought together AlpPlan members, young professionals and students from the entire Alpine Space.

“A Contested Relationship? Urbanisation & the Digital vs. Digitalisation & the Urban”
6 July to 8 July 2023 at Luxembourg University

The working group members are pleased to announce that the special issue presenting the group's research outputs will be published soon! 

Participate in the postdoc Video Challenge and present your work creatively to a wider audience.

Two years ago today, the flood disaster occurred in the Ahr Valley. 136 people lost their lives. In November 2021, we spoke with Prof. Jörn Birkmann about the challenges and opportunities in rebuilding a more resilient Ahr Valley.

Roundtable discussion on Socially Responsible Research – Reflecting the Way We Are Doing Research on Thursday, 13th of June from 1:30 until 3:00 p.m.

In autumn 2023, the international IIK “Gender and Spatial Transformation” is planning to conduct two online workshops to discuss the main terms and concepts in the field of gender and spatial transformation. The main goal is to develop a common ground and understanding of the members for the further work of the IIK.

To specify the contribution of the working group to this key question, a policy workshop was held online on June 26^th 2023.

Environmental planning involves formulating environmental policy requirements.

The municipal economy is the activity of local authorities in economic competition with other entities

The ARL organised another edition of the free and non-commercial ARL photo contest, this time on the occasion of the 2023 ARL Congress themed "Towards a Viable and Mobile Future"!

A short review on the hybrid session Social and ecological perspectives for mobility and cities: Examples from abroad

Workshop invitation of the LeNa Shape project to reflect your own research design

In cooperation with the Research Department Urban and Regional Research of the TU Wien and the International Working Group of the ARL "Beyond the Process" a Book Launch took place at the TU Wien on Thursday, April 27, 2023

The ARL in cooperation with the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Luxembourg are organising the ARL International Summer School 2023. The topic is 'A CONTESTED RELATIONSHIP? Urbanisation & the Digital, vs. Digitalisation & the Urban'.

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Samhällsplanering is the Swedish term for spatial planning. Although the word samhälle may be translated to English as society, in the Swedish context the term even includes the notion of community as well as settlement, village, town or suburb and thus also the physical and spatial dimension...

The international working group (IAK) "Gender and climate just Cities and urban Regions" met in Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic) on April 27/28. In addition to the discussion of the members' scientific contributions, the focus was on examples of water-sensitive urban development.

Liechtenstein is one of only two double-landlocked countries worldwide, surrounded by Austria and Switzerland in the center of the Alps. The historical development of spatial planning in the principality of Liechtenstein has been strongly influenced by four specificities.

How does the German planning system function? This video gives you a brief overview of the planning system in Germany.

The Annual Conference on ‘Breaking through ‘conformorality’ in urban and regional studies' has been re-scheduled for September 14-15, 2023 (Dortmund, Germany). The new deadline for submitting abstracts is June 4.

New in our collection of Country Profiles: The Country Profile of Romania authored by Claudiu Runceanu.

With this call, scholars as well as practitioners are invited to submit papers for a Workshop on Cross-Border Sector Policy Innovations Facilitating Cross-Border Cooperation held on 2 - 4 November 2023, at Andrassy University Budapest, Hungary