RE-City

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The RE-CITY consortium is glad to announce the hybrid International Conference on the 17-18 March 2022:
 

Shrinking Cities Revived!

Innovative paths and perspectives towards liveability for shrinking cities

To provide a perspective for the resilient and sustainably sound development of shrinking cities 17 partners from three continents and ten countries have worked together in the RE-CITY ITN for four years to:

  • combine shrinking cities research across multiple disciplines
  • analyse case studies and paths of actions in shrinking cities
  • develop methods, training skills and applications for RE-CITY
  • provide training for a new generation of planners

The conference features cutting edge results of shrinking cities research with presentations by project partners and contributions invited and selected through a call for abstracts. The conference also offers a platform for debate with a panel discussion with top-class panellists from national and international policy networks. For more information please take a look at the preliminary programme below.

Here you can take a look at the conference proceeding

This conference is sponsored by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the University Priority Area Region and City.

Programme

RE-City ITN Final Conference 17-18 March 2022

Venue: TU  Kaiserslautern, building 42 (Audimax and adjacent rooms)

Please take a look at the Programme and a short description of the Panel discussion.

 

8:30 – 9:00Registration
9:00 – 9:10Welcome from Werner R. Thiel, University Vice-President for Research and Technology, RPTU
9:10 – 9:20Welcome from Sascha Henninger, Dean, Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning, RPTU
9:20 – 10:00

Welcome and Introduction to the RE-CITY ITN

Karina Pallagst, RPTU

10:00 – 10:30Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30

Parallel Sessions

  • Track 1 – Conceptualising and governing Shrinking Cities
  • Track 2 – Greening and Rightsizing Shrinking Cities
  • Track 3 – Regrowing and postgrowing Shrinking Cities
12:30 – 14:30Lunch
14:30 – 15:30

Panel Discussion: Shrinking cities – emerging from crises on the way to resilience?

Panellists:
Martin Grisel, EUKN
Chiara Lucchini, Urban Lab Torino
Horacio Terraza, World Bank
Oliver Weigel, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community

Moderator: Helen Mulligan, Cambridge Architectual Research Ltd., United Kingdom

15:30 – 15:45Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00

Parallel Sessions

  • Track 4 – Social factors of reviving Shrinking Cities
  • Track 5 – Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Shrinking Cities
  • Track 6 – Frontiers of Shrinking Cities research
19:00Reception and Dinner in the Restaurant Brauhaus an der Gartenschau (Forellenstr. 6, 67659, Kaiserslautern)
9:00 – 9:45Key note speech: Chung-Tong Wu, Prof. emeritus University of Western Sydney ‘Shrinking cities at the crossroads – reflections from
an international perspective’ (working title)
9:45 – 10:00Coffee Break
10:00 – 12:00Parallel Sessions
  • Track 1 – Conceptualising and governing Shrinking Cities
  • Track 2 – Greening and Rightsizing Shrinking Cities
  • Track 3 – Regrowing and postgrowing Shrinking Cities
12:00 – 13:30Lunch
13:30 – 15:30Parallel Sessions
  • Track 4 – Social factors of reviving Shrinking Cities
  • Track 5 – Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Shrinking Cities
  • Track 6 – Frontiers of Shrinking Cities research
15:30 – 16:30Fishbowl Discussion: “Shrinking Cities Revived! – Lessons learned and future perspectives”, facilitated by the RE-CITY Early Stage
Researchers
16:30 – 16:45Closing Thoughts, Thorsten Wiechmann, TU Dortmund, Germany

Major presentations of the RE-CITY final conference:

Welcome and Introduction, Karina Pallagst, RPTU

Key note speech: Chung-Tong Wu Shrinking cities at the crossroads - reflections from an international perspective

Panel Discussion: Shrinking cities - emerging from crises on the way to resilience?

Conference Format

The conference is hybrid on site at RPTU; all formats will be accessible online via livestream.

Due to current hygiene regulations during the pandemic, only people who are recovered, vaccinated, or can provide a current test certificate are allowed on campus.

Please note, this information might change in line with the COVID-19 regulations.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 813803