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The special sessions are held in parallel with the track sessions (parallel sessions 1 to 8).

The rooms are mentionned below in each individual special session.

Section #SpS Infinite Earth

Tuesday, July 9, 10:45 - 12:30 (parallel sessions 1)

Room C.S26, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Constantin Diete - Urban Mining Of Mineral Building Materials In The Ruhr Area: A Spatial Analysis
  2. Pauline Jegen - Sustainable Urban Metabolism: A Comprehensive Analysis Of Circular Economy Implementation In The Construction Industry Of The Ruhr Area
  3. Arta Bytyqi - Planning For Urban Mining: Using Urban Planning And Development Parameters To Optimize Spatiotemporal Dynamics Of Construction Materials Flows In Cities
Section #SpS Future of planning

Room C.S13, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Petra Hurtado - Planning With Foresight
  2. Thorsten Wiechmann - The Future Of Planning: Four Scenarios As Starting Points For Strategic Development
  3. Marion Klemme - The City Of The Day After Tomorrow (Stadt Von Übermorgen)
  4. Sila Ceren Varis Husar - Navigating Tomorrow: AESOP Young Academics Network’s Take On The Future Of Planning
Section #SpS Uncare and austerity I

Room C.S21, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Lenna Verena - Urban Commons And The Welfare Mix: Preliminary Notes On A Risky Turn And The Power Of Space. 
  2. Maria Grazia Montesano - Infrastructures Of Care Under Austerity Urbanism: The Case Of A “Social Self-Managed Town” Hall In Bologna
  3. Matilde Igual Capdevila - Who Cares For The Unfinished City? Exploring Sociópolis In The Here And Now.
  4. Stefania Ragozino - Social Reproduction Of Resistance In The City: Practices Of Care In The Urban Commons. Dialogues On The Cases Of Rome And Naples
Section #SpS Uncare and austerity II

Tuesday, July 9, 14:15 - 16:00 (parallel sessions 2)

Room C.S21, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Sabine Knierbein - Urban (Un)Care And The Sociology Of The Body In Unsettled Times - Qualifying The Body As A Scale Of Spatial Analysis
  2. Rebecca Staats - Can Care Help Imagine Place Futures? Exploring The Potential Of Care As A Conceptual Framework For Place-Making
  3. Caterina Di Lucchio - Urban Care: A Perspective For A New Critical Paradigm Of Urban Regeneration?
  4. Deniz Ay - Decommodification Of Housing And Commoning Care: Potential Of Collective Property In Mitigating The Care Gap
Section #SpS Alternative Tourism I

Room C.S08, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Flavia Giallorenzo - Is Tourism Plastic Or Elastic? A Literature Overview On Hints Of Innovation Related To The Tourism Industry In The Frame Of Transitional Studies.
  2. Alexia Gignon - Olympic And Paralympic Games: Positioning Of Tourism Stakeholders In Paris Region
  3. Hilal Erkuş - Analyzing The Impacts Of Digitalization On Tourism Sector: A Meta-Analytic Study
  4. Sara D'Addario - Identity And Value. The Sustainable Tourism Regeneration Of The Rural Heritage
  5. Antonella Marlene Milano - Transhumance Routes As Tourist Destinations: A Concrete Opportunity For Inner Areas Or A Romantic Suggestion?
Section #SpS Time-sensitive urbanism I

Room N.207, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Robin A. Chang - From Boundary Object To Cross-Boundary Subject – Rhythmic Interventions In Teaching And Learning To Support Time-Sensitive Research Capacities.
  2. Solène Le Borgne - Golden Age And Smart City: Mobilising Temporal Symbols To Negotiate Urban Change In Shrinking Cities
  3. Pinar Sefkatli - Rhythmic Visioning: An Approach For Rhythm-Based Spatial Interventions
  4. Sara Caramaschi - The Role Of Temporariness, Emptiness And Improvisation In Uncertain Times: Evidence From Covid-19 Temporary Structures
  5. Filipa Wunderlich - Situating The Practice Of Temporal Urban Design
  6. Elahe Karimnia - An Experimental Utopia? Learning From Temporary Use And The Making Of 'Sustainable Community Hub' In The Bristol City Centre
Section #SpS Alternative Tourism II

Tuesday, July 9, 16:30 - 18:15 (parallel sessions 3)

Room C.S08, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Alex Deffner - ‘The Glory Of The Rails’: The Coupling Of Rail Tourism With Cultural Heritage In Greece
  2. Marina Aliki Deffner - Cultural Tourism On Rail Tracks: The Case Of The Pelion Railway
  3. Camilla Ariani - Long Distance Walking Routes Beyond The Tourism Economy. A “Feet-On” Approach To Cultural And Socioeconomic Regeneration
  4. Francesca Mazza - Towards The Regeneration Of Mountain Tourism Territories. Insights From The Alta Valtellina Region.
  5. Yiting Jiang - How Social Media Influences Rural Residents' Spatial Practice And Local Identity: A Case Study Of Fuling Village
Section #SpS Time-sensitive urbanism II

Room N.207, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Sabine Knierbein - Urban Temporalities And The Unsettled Urban Condition
  2. Giovangiuseppe Vannelli - International, Transdisciplinary And Place-Based Academic Activities: Education, Research And Third Mission. The Experience Carried Out In Sant’Eusanio Forconese (L’Aquila, Italy)
  3. Isabella Inti - Temporary Uses: How Can They Support The Legacy Of Major Events?
  4. Thomas Machiels - A Cohesive Adaptive Planning Model For Adaptable Urban Areas
  5. Nadezda Krasilnikova - Collaborative Work In Space And Time: An Example Of The Implementation Of A Co-Working Space
Section #SpS Sustainable AI

Room C.S26, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Eva Kassens-Noor - ScAInce: Can Intelligence Be Sustainable?
  2. Meng Cai - Tracking The Prevalence Of Artificial Intelligence In Municipal Governance
  3. Niklas Suhre - Acceptance Of AI Solutions: Correlating Hp Omnicept Measurements To Russell’s Circumplex Model
  4. Cornelius Darcy - Can Intelligence Be Sustainable?
  5. Liang Zhao - Unsustainable Data, Sustainable AI
  6. Mark Wilson - Disrupted Lives: Are Cities Prepared To Manage An AI Mediated Future?
  7. Stefano Di Vita - The Potentials Of Digital Technologies And Artificial Intelligence For The Spatial Regeneration Between Cities And Remote Mountain Areas
Section #SpS Beyond Leftbehindness

Wednesday, July 10, 10:45 - 12:30 (parallel sessions 4)

Room N.207, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Carlotta Fioretti - A Window Of Opportunity For Small And Medium Size Towns In The Eu Urban Policy?  Practices, Challenges, And The Way Forward
  2. Anna Growe - Innovation Functions In Small- And Medium-Sized Towns In The European Urban System: Between Left Behind Places And Borrowing Size Towns
  3. Marco Del Fiore - No Town Left Behind: Understanding The Role Of Small And Medium-Sized Towns In Territorial Welfare Policies
  4. Coralie Marboeuf - The Local Appropriation Of A National Policy In Favour Of 'Left-Behind Places': Between The Influence Of The Metropolitan Growth Model And The Creation Of Innovative Planning Strategies. The Example Of A Small Former Mining Town In Central France
  5. Alois Humer - Services Of General Interest As A Vehicle To Leave No Region Behind? The Role Of Small Towns As Centres For Sgi Provision
  6. Johanna Lilius - Capitalizing stigma: Counter-narrating regional decline within/from Finland’s ‘Capital of Pessimism’
Section #SpS Gender

Room C.S08, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Henriette Bertram - Changing The Game In Suburbia?! Planning Innovations For The Societal And Ecological Transformation Of Newly Planned Urban Expansion Areas In Germany
  2. Katharina Kapitza - Lost In Transformation? Gender, Intersectional And Spatial Perspectives On Debates About Sustainability Transformations
  3. Sybille Bauriedl - Gender Justice And Transformation Within The Donut
  4. Lotte Nawothnig - Enabling sufficient livelihoods through gender-responsive city planning
  5. Jeff Turner - Planning for Gender-equitable Transition in Mobility: Tools and protocols for the integration of Gender into Mobility Planning
Section #SpS New Territoriality

Wednesday, July 10, 16:45 - 18:30 (parallel sessions 5)

Room Jeannie de Clarens, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris

  1. Bilge Nur Bektaş - Interpretation And Presentation Strategies For Historic Port City Of Izmir
  2. Chiara Nifosì - The Port As Heritage And Shared Landscape. Framing The Port-City 'Axis Of Relationship' In Some Relevant Italian Cases
  3. Silvia Sivo - A Collaborative Perspective For Port City Transition Governance. The Manifold Boundaries At Play In The Case Of Venice
  4. Mina Akhavan, et al - Mapping the Geography of Ports in Proximity in the North Sea: Local and Regional Implications?
Section #SpS Deleted Lands

Room Goguel, 56 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (entrance via 27 rue Saint-Guillaume)

  1. Shlomit Flint Ashery - Using Digital Collaboration To Achieve Holistic And Resilient Planning: A Case Study Of Jerusalem’s Ezrat Torah Neighbourhood
  2. Wolfgang Scholz - Still Ongoing Western Influence In Planning Worldwide? Planning Systems For The Global South From The South?
Section #SpS Representing Future

Room Eugène d'Eichtal, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris

  1. Gillian Rose - Visualising Life In Volumetric Cities: City Digital Twins And Other Disasters
  2. Jan Boon - Don’t Look Up: How Renderings Impact Citizens’ Perceptions Of Large And Conflictual Infrastructure Projects
  3. Liesbeth Huybrechts - Live Projects. A Design Approach To Account For Diverse Embodied Experiences In Socio-Ecological Transitions
  4. Martijn Van Den Hurk - Keeping It Real: Experimenting With Renderings For Fictitious Infrastructures
Section #SpS Transformative planning - Biodiversity

Room C.S08, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. M. Susana Orta-Ortiz - Assessing Transformative Planning Practices Through A Content Analysis Of Plans From 7 European Countries.
  2. Henk-Jan Kooij - Planning For Biodiversity Restoration In The Dutch Ooijpolder-Groesbeek: A Tripartite Strategy Of Democratic Plans, Individual Discretion And Financial And Planning Instruments
  3. Maria Chiara Pastore - Dis-Integrated Urban Biodiversity: An Analysis Of Urban Policies And Plans In Italy
  4. Philippa Hughes - Goals, Barriers And Enablers To Realising Biodiversity Delivery Through New Development
  5. Yuanzao Zhu - Opportunities Of Integrating Economic And Financial Instruments Into Spatial Planning To Enhance Biodiversity
Section #SpS Ecological Transition

Thursday, July 11, 10:45 - 12:30 (parallel sessions 6)

Room 13, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris

  1. Barbara Pizzo - Which ‘Game Changers’ For Which ‘Innovation’? Actors, Competencies, And Behaviors In ‘Innovative’ Planning And Design Competitions.
  2. Federica Appendino - Circulation Of Imaginaries And Solutions For A Sustainable City In The Reinventing Cities Winning Projects
  3. Pedro Gomes - Reinventing Cities And Municipal Urban Strategies: What Game Are Public And Private Actors Playing?
Section #SpS Housing - health I

Room N.207, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Lucy Natarajan - Planning, Health Citizenship: Air Quality In London
  2. Helena Schulte - Climate Adaptation In Apartment Blocks: Health-Promoting Housing In Climate Change As An Interplay Of Spatial, Technical, And Social Innovations
  3. Gonçalo Santinha - Empowering Place-Based Health Approaches By Developing Local Health Strategies
  4. Federica Fava - Learning From New York City. Active Heritage For Healthy And Responsive Cities
Section #SpS Housing - health II

Thursday, July 11, 14:15 - 16:00 (parallel sessions 7)

Room N.207, 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris

  1. Enza Lissandrello - Empowerment And Participatory Approaches To Urban Health: The E-City Programme
  2. Stefania Butti - Aging And Urbanization: Investigating Different “Aging In Place” Models In The City As An Opportunity To Empower Individuals’ Healthy Longevity
  3. Marvin Stiewing - Health And Residential Location Patterns Of Baby Boomers And Challenges For Health Care In Rural-Suburban Areas
  4. Emil Israel - Compliance With Covid-19 Regulations In Cities vs. Suburbs: The Role Of Communities’ Forms Of Capital
  5. Sirle Salmistu - Encouraging Healthy Ageing Through The Planning Of Age-Friendly Communities In Estonia
Section #SpS Educational Infrastructure

Room Jeannie de Clarens, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris

  1. Ettore Donadoni - Linking Educational And Territorial Policies To Fight Spatial Inequalities: The Italian Case
  2. Holger Jahnke - The Territorial Reconfiguration Of Education In Northern Germany – What Consequences For The Future Of Rural Schooling?
  3. Angela Million - Educational Landscapes - An International Perspective
  4. Geoffrey Grulois - A Planning Tool to Improve the School Environment in Poor Neighbourhoods? Reflecting on the Recent Experience of School Contracts in Brussels-Capital Region