FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

ENHR International Conference
Sustainable Urban Areas
25-28 June 2007
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The organizing committee of the ENHR Conference 'Sustainable Urban Areas' cordially invites proposals for individual papers. The ENHR Conference will be organised in Rotterdam from 25 till 28 June 2007 by Delft University of Technology. The theme is Sustainable Urban Areas. The conference will highlight the many aspects of housing and urban issues in relation to sustainability. Sustainability is a broad concept that can be addressed from many different angles. Attention to all approaches and their interrelationships is the key to a sustainable society. A common arrangement is to distinguish social, economic, spatial and environmental qualities relating to sustainability. In the conference these will all come to the fore. Plenary sessions with appealing keynote speakers will address current debates in housing like the future role of social housing and the pros and cons of the demolition of housing estates. In addition to these purely housing related topics, items related to sustainability will also be discussed like transformation processes within the city and at the regional level. Plenary sessions will be organised around two keynote speakers concluding with a debate.

Paper sessions will allow participants to present their research in the urban and housing domain. Most of these sessions will be organised by the regular ENHR working groups, but a number of additional paper tracks will cluster the urban issues not covered by the existing ENHR working groups.

ENHR working groups that have confirmed their participation:
1. Housing Finance
2. Migration, Residential Mobility and Housing Policy
3. The Residential Context of Health
4. Housing Economics
5. Poverty Neighbourhoods
6. Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Housing Exclusion
7. Housing Regeneration and Maintenance
8. Residential Environments and People
9. Legal Aspects of Housing, Land and Planning
10. Home Ownership and Globalisation
11. Metropolitan Dynamics: Urban Change, Market and Governance
12. Housing Market Dynamics
13. Housing and Minority Ethnic Groups
14. East European Housing & Urban Policy
15. Housing and Urban Sustainability
16. Institutional and Organisational Change in Social Housing Organisations in Europe
17. Housing and Sustainable Urbanisation in Developing Countries
18. Housing and Social Theory (NEW!)

Additional workshops:
18. The Sustainable City
19. Spatial Planning and Governance at the Regional Level
20. Tools to Facilitate Housing and Urban Processes

A description of the ENHR working groups and additional themes are available on the conference website: www.enhr2007rotterdam.nl.

The congress location is the Doelen, a concert and congress building situated in the cultural and professional heart of Rotterdam and only a stone's throw from Central Station and the shopping district. Rotterdam is an interesting city from an architectural, housing and urban point of view and hosts important architecture and housing institutes. 2007 has been declared the Year of Architecture by the city.

A number of social events will be organised, taking advantage of the specific features of the city of Rotterdam along the water. A welcome reception in the Rotterdam City Hall, a dinner on board Europe's largest paddle steamer and a dinner in the Laurens church and two dinners will offer participants the opportunity to meet with other participants in a relaxed environment. A general tour of Rotterdam and several interesting field trips will give insight into the housing and urban practice of the region of Rotterdam.

Offered fieldtrips:
1. Middle incomes in the city and innovative concepts in renting and ownership.
2. Urban restructuring in post-war areas in progress (Pendrecht).
3. Tension and opportunities between city and urban region (Carnisselande).
4. The issue of integration and multicultural building (Bospolder/Tussendijken).
5. The broad interpretation of the tasks of a housing association (Oude Noorden).
6. Transformation of the former harbour areas in the city (CityPorts project).
7. The development of a VINEX area (Nesselande).
8. Alternative forms of housing for the elderly.
9. Sustainability in the urban restructuring and renovation of the district of Duindorp and the use of sustainable materials and innovative technical applications (water, solar energy).
10. Leisure and urban development (Rotterdam waterfront developments).
11. Living and industrial areas: the role of disaster management (the district of Heijplaat and the fire brigade).

Time table:
1 March 2007: Deadline for submission of abstracts
15 March 2007: Notification of abstract acceptance
1 May 2007: Deadline for submission of full papers

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