INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Urban, Regional, Environmental Planning and Informatics to Planning in
an Era of Transition
Athens, Greece - October 22-24, 1997
Organiser: National Technical University of Athens
Faculty of Architecture (Department of Urban and Regional Planing)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Division of Com-
puter Science)
Department of Chemical Engineering
Co-organisers
Development Planning Unit, Bartlett School of Architecture and Plan-
ning, University College London
Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR)
Technical University of Berlin, Institute for Town and Regional
Planning
Technical University of Vienna
AIM OF THE CONFERENCE
Nowadays spatial, social, economic and environmental planning is tak-
ing place in a landscape that changes rapidly from an institutional
and environmental point of view. Planning affects, and is affected by,
those changes that constitute an era of social and economic transi-
tion. In this context questions are being raised concerning the role
of planning, the tools that planning uses for spatial analysis and
policy making, and the nature of planning in that transitory social,
political and natural environment.
This landscape of changes affects planning from several points of
view: planning theory, planning practice and planning education. These
changes concern the area of scope, values and means for planning anal-
ysis and planning formations. Informatics has become an indispensable
part of today's planning schemes and practice offering the opportunity
to materialise the notion of interdiscipline and comprehensives but at
the same time giving rise to the matter of controlling personal and
collective life. It is obvious that the transitory era where we plan
and we live in, imposes challenges and constraints to planning. Conse-
quently, the main subject of the conference, is to delve and search
for the underlying forces which shape the transitory era and also the
role of planning in a society where its basic institutions and struc-
tures deny collective action, despite the fact that it cannot exist
without them.
THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference will run in three major tracks: (a) URBAN AND REGIONAL
PLANNING, (b) ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING and (c) INFORMATICS IN PLANNING.
Each one of these tracks will run for three consecutive days, while
during the fourth day of the conference conclusions from each one of
them will be put together for the final conclusion concerning posi-
tions and aspects of the role and nature of planning in a society
where values and concepts change rapidly and new methods for policy
formations are introduced to planing in order to control the activi-
ties and shape the relations between human, natural and built environ-
ment.
Possible Topics
Track 1: Urban and Regional Planning
Issues concerning the theory and philosophy of planning
Social and economic aspects of urban and regional planning
Urban Design: issues and aspects
Metropolitan Planning: issues, solutions, plans and problems
Land control, land uses, and land prices
Social aspects of planning and management of the urban space
Urban Migration: implications for effective planning
Social aspects of planning urban networks
The regional problem (theory and practice)
Issues of regional development
European Union regional policies and its consequences to social
and economic development
The problem of uneven development in European Union countries
Capital and labour movement between metropolis and hinterland
Case studies of regional development
Social exclusion and the new urban poor in European cities
The European Union and the Urban Question (Green Paper on the urban
environment, Europe 2000, Europe 2000 +, The European Charter of
Women's rights in the City, Quarters en Crise,...)
Track 2: Environmental Planning
Environmental value systems in planning formation
Economic development vs. environmental cost
Transport land use and sustainable urban development
The dimension of the environment in urban and regional planning
(issues and case studies)
Environmental policies, facts and illusions
Environment and sustainable development
Environmental management in urban areas
Air, soil and water pollution: modelling and monitoring
Environmental management strategies
Issues of pollution and transportation policies
Track 3: Informatics in Planning
Data modelling and management issues in spatial planning
GIS systems for urban, regional and environmental planning applications
Prototype GIS systems
Distributed, heterogeneous information systems and their application to GIS
Quality aspects of spatial information
Expert systems for spatial planning
Decision making support systems in urban, regional and environmental
planning
Use of remote sensing technologies in spatial planning
Decision support systems for planning of Urban Regional Services and
Aspects.
Organisation and processing of GIS
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are requested to submit 4 copies of full papers (not
abstracts), in English, to Prof. Dimitri Georgoulis, Dept. of Urban
and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, National Technical
University of Athens, Zographou 157 73, Athens, Greece (e-mail:
dimi@upln.ntua.gr; tel. +30-1 -772-1591, FAX +30-1 -772-1587). The
title page of the paper should contain the title, author, affiliation,
the contact author's mailing address, telephone number, fax number and
e-mail address, as well as an abstract and the track the paper is sub-
mitted to. The length of a paper should be at most 20 pages double
spaced (less than 7000 words), including figures and bibliography. The
Program Committee will evaluate the papers based on scientific signif-
icance, originality and relevance to the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for receiving full papers: April 1, 1997
Information on acceptance sent out: July 1, 1997
Papers due on camera-ready form: September 1, 1997
GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIRPERSON
Prof. Nikos Kalogeras, (Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, NTUA)
PROGRAME COMMITTEE
David Abel, CSIRO (Australia)
Louis Albrechts, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
Gerd Albers, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Andreas 'Andreadakis, NTUA (Greece)
Markos Bonazountas, NTUA (Greece)
Flavio Bonfatti, University of Modena (Italy)
Peter Christiansen, University of Aarhus (Denmark)
Leila de Floriani, University of Genova (Italy)
Andrew Frank, Technical University of Vienna (Austria)
Dieter Frick, Tehcnical University of Berlin (Germany)
Max Graglia, University of Sheffield (UK)
Oliver Guenther, Humboldt University (Germany)
Nigel Harris, University College London (UK)
Kostis Hatzimichalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Terjie Kleven, Norwegian Inst. for Urban and Regional Research (Norway)
Antonis Kontopoulos, NTUA (Greece)
Robert Laurini, University of Lyon and INSA (France)
Lila Leontidou, London University (UK)
Maria Loisidou, NTUA (Greece)
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Nikos Markatos, NTUA (Greece)
Michael Mattingly, University College London (UK)
Babar Mumtaz, College London (UK)
Petter Naess, Norwegian Inst. for Urban and Regional Research (Norway)
Jon Naustdalslid, Norwegian Inst. for Urban and Regional Research (Norway)
Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
Soukry Roweis, University of Toronto (Canada)
Michel Scholl, CNAM and INRIA (France)
Timos Sellis, NTUA(Greece)
Despina Sergidou, HIT (Cyprus)
Gerd Shmidt-Eichstaed, Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
Terence Smith, University of California Santa. Barbara (U.S.A)
Arena Tes, Norwegian Inst. for Urban and Regional Research (Norway)
Thanassis Tsakalidis, University of Patras (Greece)
Agnes Voisard, Free University of Berlin (Germany)
Horst Wunderlich, Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
Maria Zachariou, WDD (Cyprus)
Karine Zeitouni, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (France)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Timos Sellis, Gerd Shmidt-Eichstaed, Ntina Vaiou, Louis Wassenhoven,
Maria Loisidou, Dimitri Georgoulis, Jon Naustdalslid, Andrew Frank,
Patrick Wakely
For further information, please contact: Prof. Dimitri Georgoulis,
Dept.of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, National
Technical University of Athens, Zographou 157 73, Athens, Greece (e-
mail dimi@upln.ntua.gr; tel. +30-1 -772-1591, FAX +30-1 -772-1587).
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