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One of the most pressing issues affecting world population is the changing climate which has brought about detrimental impacts in water availability, agricultural production, pests and diseases as well as has created natural disasters in many parts of the world. Ironically, the changing climate is a product of modern civilization supported by capitalism. Although many nations have realized urgency of the situations, significant global actions to avoid environmental catastrophes with complex economic and social consequences have not been materialized yet.
When many nations are still navigating themselves in the alarming environmental situation, capitalist world has been shaken by unexpected economic crisis originated from the US. Given the interconnected world economy, the crisis has bitten many parts of the capitalist world. Despite financial and economic stimulation implemented in many countries, recovery will unlikely to occur soon. Shrinking growth will reduce living standards. For developing countries, it might deepen poverty.
These crises have called for a greater attention of policy makers, scholars and concerned communities. Furthermore, they require immediate and effective collaborative actions internationally and locally. Long term perspectives and short term solutions should be tailored and then implemented effectively. Although alternative solutions seem to be understood, effective collaborative global actions remain uncertain given significant conflicting interest among nations. This situation has endangered sustainable development, diming the prospect of poverty alleviation. It will affect development at the national, regional and local levels. Consequently, it has given rise to questions need to be addressed:
- What is the prospect of our global environment? Do we need to redefine sustainable development? Do we have alternatives for better environment? How can planning contribute to realization of the alternatives?
- How can planning contribute to recovery from and adjustment to the current economic crisis as well as avoid unintended consequences of capitalist development in the future?
- What are strategic planning agendas at the national, regional and local level for adjusting to the current global crises? How can the agendas be institutionalized to assure their realization? what lesson can be distilled from the current crises for planning education and research in developed and less developed countries?
This International Conference on Urban, Regional Planning is seek to know the answer of the question by providing forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoritical, experimental, and applied Urban and Regional Planning. The conference will bring together leading researchers, and scientists in the domain of interest forum around the domain of interest from around the world.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Julio Davila (University College London)
Track 2: Global Crisis and Metropolitan Areas
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Andre Sorensen (University of Toronto)
Track 3: Climate Change and Urban Design
Chair: Prof. Yukio Nishimura (University of Tokyo)
Track 4: Urban Land and Housing Development
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Sudaryono (Gadjah Mada University)
Track 5: Urban and Regional Governance
Chair: Dr. Teti Armiati Argo (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
When a situation of impoverishment created, marginality and inequality deepened as a result of a crisis, urban and regional governance as a system may not be free from being questioned either as creator or perpetuator of such situation. A self evaluation may lead to rearranging of the governance, in which thriving economic growth has no longer driven how communal goals are defined, developed and focused. The roles and positions of community groups, including business and financial may redefine regional and urban tendency towards common goals. This track invites scholars, scientists, practitioners, educators to explore, identify and discuss how regional and urban governance evolve around inevitable change brought by crisis, how actors become involved in the process of change, nature and direction of interactions that lead to a new forms of governance.
Track 6: Climate Change and Coastal Urban Areas
Chair: Prof. Michael Leaf (University of British Columbia)
Track 7: Global Crisis and the Regional Development and Planning
Chair: Prof. Tommy Firman (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
Track 8: Infrastructure Planning in the Era of Crisis
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Johan Woltjer (University of Groningen)
Track 9: Urban and Regional Planning Tools
Chair: Dr. Ibnu Syabri (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
Track 10: Planning Finance in the Era of Crisis
Chair: Prof. Bambang Brodjonegoro (University of Indonesia)
Track 11: Global Crisis and Planning Theory
Chair: Prof. Gert de Roo (University of Groningen)
Track 12: Global Crisis and Planning Education
Chair: Prof. Christopher Silver (University of Florida)
Track 13: Global Tourism
Chair: Dr. Wiwiek D Pratiwi (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
Tourism can be viewed as one aspect of globalisation which has captured the world’s attention in the late 20th century and the new millennium. On the other hand globalisation has presented opportunities for countries to promote their cultures internationally through various means, such as tourism. At the same time, globalisation has also produced the opportunity for tourism to exist on a large scale, which has made the international promotion of a culture possible to exist. As a result of globalisation, many problems may emerge, for example: changed patterns of land use; a universal pattern of design, construction and material use; inappropriate uses of the gridiron systems of planning; wasteful patterns of social consumption; the rise of a corporate culture; and the development of environmental problems. The problems are self-evident. The effects are illustrated in every aspect of physical form that closely ties into the social and cultural changes. The classic example is the disappearance of vernacular practices of construction; of materials and methods that are specific to their culture and environment. The condition raises questions on how can planning contribute to recovery from and adjustment to the current problems as well as avoid unintended consequences of tourism development in the future? What are strategic planning agendas at the national, regional and local level for adjusting to the current tourism development in a particular destination? How can the agendas be institutionalized to assure their realization? What lesson can be distilled from the current challenges in global tourism for planning education and research in developed and less developed countries? Important dates for this new track:
Last date for abstract Submission : 15 August 2009
Notification of Acceptance : 30 August 2009
Final paper submission : 30 September 2009
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