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July 15th -19th 2013 University College Dublin | Ireland ConfErEnCE ProGrammE University College Dublin The School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy Contents Congress Theme 02 Congress Opening – Guests of Honour 03 Welcome from AESOP and ACSP Presidents 04 Keynotes with biographies and abstracts 07 Congress Committees 11 Local Organizing Committee 13 Conference Secretariat 14 General schedule for the congress 15 Assemblies and meetings 16 Special Sessions and Workshops 17 Mobile workshops 21 Gala Dinner 24 Exhibitors 25 Congress Tracks and Co-chairs 26 Sessions and Panels by Track 28 Poster Presentations by Track 98 1 AESOP / ACSP Joint Congress 2013 Planning for Resilient Cities and Regions Congress Theme Planning for Resilient Cities and Regions The Congress focuses on resilience which has become a new banner for various societal and related planning efforts in cities and regions across the globe. These efforts generally aim to sustain the urban and rural viability and improve the quality of life for their residents amidst the global economic and socio-political crisis and climate change. The concept of resilience relates to the degree to which various environments and systems can tolerate changing conditions and circumstances before adapting and reorganising around a new set of structures and processes. While the concept is sometimes understood only as resilience to climate change and geo environmental hazards, we propose its utility to planning and development be explored in broader terms – as an approach to the multifaceted nature of local and global challenges. In fact, one may consider the ability to adapt and change as an indicator of resilience. The field of planning has long had a role in mediating the relationships and dealing with the complex and multiscalar nature of development, drawing together environmental and ecological understanding with insights from social, economic and political theory, and applying these spatially in a built environment context. The contemporary challenges require innovative and sustainable solutions in the creation of more resilient and adaptive cities and regions, which balance economic competitiveness, environmental protection and social flourishing. These solutions derive in part from spatial planning, building on the roles of urban design, community engagement and technological innovations to ensure that urbanisation is managed in a sustainable manner. The 16 Congress tracks reflect the breadth of the planning field and will address the general theme of resilience implicitly and explicitly to varying extents, specificity, aspects and scales. There will be an opportunity to engage with the concept and explore its applicability and value in the planning and development research and practice. Given the Irish context and the rich learning experiences that its past and recent trends in urban and rural development offer, the general theme could also connect to the Celtic brand of resilience. In addition, there is an opportunity to examine planning issues from peripheral (edge) as well as “in between” positions and perspectives. This applies to Ireland as much as it does to the new EU accession countries in east and southeast Europe in particular. With the joint involvement of AESOP and ACSP, it is expected that the conversations will take special regard for cross-societal and cross-cultural themes and promote exchanges between the American and European as well as participants from other continents. We hope that new and unique content will be infused to reflect the variety of local contexts and circumstances which offer true laboratories for studying planning issues and challenges. 2 Congress Opening – Guests of Honour We are pleased to announce the 5th Joint AESOP / ACSP Congress will be opened by Ms. Jan O’Sullivan T.D., Minister for Housing and Planning and Dr. Hugh Brady, President of University College Dublin. Jan O’Sullivan TD Minister of State, Department of Environment, Community and Local Government with special responsibility for Housing and Planning. Jan O’Sullivan (née Gale; born 6 December 1950) is an Irish Labour Party politician. She is a Teachta Dála (TD) for Limerick City constituency. http://www.labour.ie/janosullivan Dr Hugh Brady UCD President Oifig an Uachtaráin UCD Dr Hugh Brady was appointed President of UCD in January 2004. Born in August 1959, he was educated at UCD where he was awarded degrees in Medicine (1982) and Science (1984). He was subsequently awarded PhD and MD degrees for research in renal physiology and molecular medicine. Prior to returning to UCD in 1996 as Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, he spent nine years at Harvard University. https://www.ucd.ie/president/biography/ From the Local Organising Committee: Céad Míle Fáilte - A Hundred Thousand Welcomes! We cordially invite you to Dublin, one of the most exciting and dynamic European cities, and to the wonderful island of Ireland - the place of Celtic Tiger and Celtic Resilience. Come to: n hear and debate the latest in planning and policy research and practice; n visit sites of planning action and inaction - including new town development, urban cultural and waterfront regeneration, edge city development, post-recession urbanscapes, social housing renewal, heritage preservation, transport planning and city bike scheme, capital projects; and n enjoy the Irish hospitality, beautiful landscapes and culture. WE ENCLOSE THE CONGRESS FINAL PROGRAMME WHICH PROMISES A RICH AND RELEVANT CONTENT AS A BASE FOR MANY CONSTRUCTIVE AND INSIGHTFUL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE STATUS, PROSPECTS AND STRATEGIC ACTION NEEDED IN OUR VULNERABLE CITIES AND REGIONS. 3 AESOP / ACSP Joint Congress 2013 Planning for Resilient Cities and Regions Welcome from AESOP President: AESOP and ACSP meet, and the buzz word is… resilience! Two vibrant communities of planning, AESOP and ACSP, come together in Dublin, Ireland. And along with them more people than ever participate. This time our AESOP annual conference is special, as it is jointly organized with our American colleagues from ACSP, who consider it like us their conference, although it is held in Europe. Many thanks to all involved, in particular Zorica Nedovic-Budic and her very assuring Local Organizing Committee, and our two executive committees cooperating constructively within the Joint Congress Committee. Warm thanks also go to my colleague Chuck Connerly, President of ACSP, with whom I had fruitful discussions about the future of our discipline and associations. The joint conferences - we’ve had a few of those: Oxford 1991, Toronto 1996, Leuven 2003, Chicago 2008 and now Dublin, 2013. I’ve been to them all, and all were a delight. The joint ones held in America were conveniently hotel based, and always professionally organized according to a blueprint that has proven its success. Those held in Europe are always full of local flavour, university based, with a local host trying to set up a successful event starting more or less from scratch, embracing local advantages. Two organisations, two cultures and two communities willing to interact, to listen and to learn from each other, while appreciating the differences between them. This will not be different here in Dublin. Dublin seems to me the obvious place for a joint conference, at the edge of Europe, and its long traditions and its crucial contributions to European history. At the same time it has been an important hub to America in the last few hundred years, where Irish influences are among the most profound of European cultural heritage to be seen on American soil. Alongside these linkages Dublin is also a welcoming, friendly place, full of character and unique atmosphere. Dublin has also a story to tell with regards to spatial planning. The city has faced ups and downs, rise and decline, developments and redevelopments, particularly in recent years, while being hit by the housing crisis the docklands are being reconstructed and light rail is brought in to connect further the various parts of this wonderful city full of stories, history and culture. Resilience is the buzz word for this conference. With a focus on resilience no doubt Dublin will be put to the test as a spatial phenomenon. I’m defining resilience as a system being robust enough to withstand major threats. Dublin is very much affected by the housing crisis. Nevertheless no one is expecting the city to collapse. Cities hardly collapse and even have the flexibility to adapt. Cities being resilient in that respect therefore are also considered to be complex adaptive systems, being both robust and flexible, and as such capable to co-evolve through time. More likely we have to look at various parts of cities and urban regions, and at particular groups within cities and regions, to think through the importance of being resilient. As with sustainability and livability, resilience is a societal benchmark which needs further elaboration from academics and planners, to allow it to become a useful and meaningful term. If this is our task let’s try to give ‘resilience’ more depth than we were able to do with ‘sustainability’. Addressing resilience in Dublin can be seen as an invitation to us all. It is an address that comes with responsibilities having to consider its relationship and its importance to planning. 4 I strongly support us addressing new notions, ideas and concepts, to be put on stage at our conferences. Resilience clearly is such a notion. The various tracks of the conference also relate to new developments and alternative reasoning: Diversity, Climate change, Civic initiatives, Inter-regional, Transition, Prosperity and Austerity, Risk… It shows that our discipline is open to change and alternative ideas. It shows our planning community is flexible and dynamic enough to embrace new discussions, enhancing a discipline which overall is robust or – if you like – resilient, to face the future. I wish us all a wonderful and inspiring conference! Gert de Roo President of AeSOP 5 AESOP / ACSP Joint Congress 2013 Planning for Resilient Cities and Regions Welcome from ACSP President As I write this welcome to the 2013 joint AESOP / ACSP Congress, the city I work in, Iowa City is confronted with its third highest flood in history, following only by five years the 2008 record flood which inundated the University of Iowa campus. Three months ago, this part of Iowa was in full-scale drought. Climate scientists tell us that with climate change, this pattern of floods and drought represents the future of Iowa and other areas. In the face of climate change, Iowa City and its neighbors are learning to be resilient cities. Iowa City is not unique of course, and many other areas are now seeing the impact of climate change. The theme of the 2013 joint Congress, “Planning for Resilient Cities and Regions” rings true to many of us. How can cities both shape the world to be more sustainable, but also more resilient in the face of climate and other changes? This theme was chosen because it infiltrates all our communities and it is the purpose of the conference to both pose questions and offer answers that help us to plan our cities for resiliency in the face of all dimensions of change, including, but not limited to climate change. We are pleased once again to join with our AESOP colleagues for what will be our fifth Congress since first meeting in Oxford, England in 1991. It has been my pleasure to work closely with our European colleagues in planning this conference and I am especially indebted to AESOP past-president Kristina Nilsson and current president Gert de Roo, as well as the other members of the Joint Congress Committee, for making the planning of this conference so easy and productive. Without a doubt, the Local Organizing Committee Chair, Zorica Nedovic-Budic and her University College Dublin colleagues, have done an outstanding job planning for this huge and intellectually rich conference. We are also indebted to the Congress professional staff, Susan Nolan and Mai Olden of Odyssey International, for all their hard and diligent work in putting the pieces together of the Congress. My American colleagues will enjoy Dublin and Ireland. Dublin is world famous for its great writers, most notably James Joyce and W. B. Yeats, and in 2010 was named the fourth UNESCO City of Literature (Iowa City was the third!). Americans are loved in Ireland because everyone, it seems, is related to an American. But our ties run beyond distant kinship. They also include traditions of revolution, independence, and freedom. It is fitting that the Dublin Congress follows the 2008 Congress in Chicago. Both cities, of course, have large Irish populations. But both cities also have memorials to James Connolly, the Irish socialist and rebel, who was executed for his leadership of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. Connolly lived in Chicago and played important roles there in the Socialist Party of America and the International Workers of the World. Connolly died for his belief in revolution, independence, and freedom and Americans who come to Dublin should welcome toasting the commitment to these values that Connolly personified. Charles Connerly President of ACSP 6 Keynote speakers with biographies and abstracts Professor Thomas elmqvist Professor & Theme Leader Stockholm University & Stockholm Resilience Center Stockholm, Sweden Plenary session: Monday, July 15, 2013, 14:00 - 15:30 Biography Thomas Elmqvist, PhD, is a professor in Natural Resource Management at Stockholm University. His research is focused on ecosystem services, land use change, natural disturbances and components of resilience including the role of social institutions. He is coordinating a major interdisciplinary research theme as part of the Stockholm Resilience Centre focusing on governance and management of ecosystem services in urban landscapes. He has published more than 60 papers in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, several books and book chapters and has served as Chair of the Man and Biosphere International Coordinating Council (UNESCO) 2006-2008 (www.unesco.org/mab), Chair of the Scientific Committee of bioSustainability of Diversitas 2005- 2013, and Member of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (www.teebweb.org) -- a G8-initiative which has delivered results to the CBD-conference in Nagoya (2010). He is the study leader of the UN project Cities and Biodiversity Outlook I - Assessment of Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystems (www.cbd.int). He currently holds Adjunct Professorship at Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, NY, USA and is Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies and Fellow of the Swedish Royal Academy for Agriculture and Forestry. Abstract: Urban Resilience – Focusing on Scales One of the most debated and challenging contemporary concepts in urban development is resilience. How do we define it in an urban context, how is it related to sustainability and what are the implications of scale? This presentation attempts to clarify the concept, discuss common misinterpretations and reflect on the many difficulties that remain in its application in urban development. Cities are centers of production and consumption and urban inhabitants are reliant on resources and ecosystem services, from food, water and construction materials to waste assimilation, secured from locations around the world. Although cities can optimize their resource use, increase their efficiency, and minimize waste, they can never become fully self-sufficient. Therefore, individual cities cannot be considered sustainable or resilient without acknowledging and accounting for their teleconnections i.e. long-distance dependence and impact on resources and populations in other regions around the world. A too narrow focus on a single city is often counterproductive and may even be destructive since building resilience in one city often may erode it elsewhere with multiple negative effects across the globe. Further, from historical accounts we learn that while there are cities that have actually failed and disappeared (e.g. Mayan cities), our modern era experience is that cities rarely if ever collapse and disappear. Rather, they may enter a spiral of decline, become non-competitive and lose their position in regional, national and even global systems of cities. However, through extensive financial and trading networks, cities have a high capacity to avoid abrupt change and collapse, which deems the application of the resilience concept at the local city scale somewhat inadequate. Therefore, urban regions must take increased responsibility for implementing transformative solutions and through collaboration across a global system of cities, provide a framework for managing the resource chains. Given the challenges of rapid global change, innovative planning approaches and means that deal with urban complexity and transformations are needed. An insight into the meaning and manifestations of resilience at urban and wider scales may provide planning with a new language and metaphors for understanding the dynamics of change in complex systems and new tools and methods for supporting integrated strategic action. 7 AESOP / ACSP Joint Congress 2013 Planning for Resilient Cities and Regions Professor Susan S. Fainstein Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA Visiting Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School, National University of Singapore Plenary session: Thursday, July 18, 2013, 09:45 - 11:15 Biography Susan S. Fainstein is a Senior Research Fellow in the Harvard Graduate School of Design; she joined the faculty in 2006 as a professor of urban planning and retired from teaching in 2012. She is also a visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of the National University of Singapore. Her book The Just City was published in 2010 by Cornell University Press. Among her other books are The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York; Restructuring the City; and Urban Political Movements. She has co-edited volumes on urban tourism (The Tourist City and Cities and Visitors), planning theory (Readings in Planning Theory), urban theory (Readings in Urban Theory), and gender (Gender and Planning) and has authored over 100 book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. Her research interests include planning theory, urban theory, urban redevelopment, and comparative urban policy focusing on the United States, Europe, and East Asia. She received the Distinguished Educator Award of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), which recognizes lifetime career achievement, the Davidoff Book Award of the ACSP, and has been a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Center for Scholars at Bellagio. Professor Fainstein has been a professor of planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and of planning in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. She has held the Wibaut Chair for Distinguished International Visitors at the University of Amsterdam and visiting appointments at the University of the Witwatersrand, SA, the University of London, Cleveland State University, New York University, Queens University (Canada), and the University of British Columbia. She has served on numerous editorial boards, was an editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and of Ethnic and Racial Studies, and has served as a consultant to various public organisations. Susan received her A.B. from Harvard University in government, her M.A. from Boston University in African Studies, and her Ph.D. in political science from MIT. Abstract: Resilience and Justice Recently resilience seems to have displaced sustainability as the term encapsulating the aim of planners. Its connotations are unobjectionable to either the left or the right: that planning for cities and regions requires building in the capacity to bounce back from adverse circumstances. According to the mandate for this conference, the purpose of developing resilience is “to sustain the urban and rural viability and improve the quality of life for their residents amidst the global economic and socio-political crisis and climate change.” The concept of resilience responds to the damage recently wrought by hurricanes and earthquakes, even while it is being stretched to encompass economic crisis and social misery. The question is whether, by using the term to cover so much, it obfuscates the trade-offs involved and the resulting distributions of costs and benefits. For example, efforts to achieve resilience to climate change through developing natural buffers against sea level rise can result in the displacement of populations. Who will be displaced and what measures will be taken to replace lost housing and community are crucial questions not captured by the term resilience. The issue then is whether by using this term we are, as with sustainability, seeking an innocuous label to justify controversial actions, or whether it can be used to mobilize a political force for achieving more just outcomes. Introduction: Prof. Heather Campbell, University of Sheffield, UK 8

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