Planning in the Risk Society - Napoli

[i]XXI Aesop Conference[/i] July 11-14, 2007 Napoli, Italy Centro Congressi Università “Federico II”, via Partenope 18, Napoli Local Organizer: Dipartimento di Urbanistica, Università “Federico II” The conference’s main theme, the risk, is not just a concern for the hosting city, but more generally a challenging issue to planning theorists and practitioners. Other themes are: 1. Planning theory in a risk society 2. European territorial cooperation and cohesion policy 3. Planning education and practice 4. Global challenges to local socio-economic development 5. Planning in multicultural societies 6. Participation and governance 7. Housing, urban decline and social exclusion 8. Planning law, institutions, and property rights 9. Urban design and physical form 10. Transport planning and mobility infrastructures 11. New planning technologies in risk societies 12. Culture, heritage and spatial planning 13. Landscape and rurban areas 14. Environmental planning As a concept, risk includes different meanings and dimensions, such as natural risk, security, human risk on the environment, conflicts and social marginality in peripheral areas. In this perspective, it is to be connected to the more “classic” issue of uncertainty as a basic dimension of planning practice, rising new questions on contemporary metropolitan government all over Europe. Studies on this matter – such as Beck’s and Giddens’s in the field of social sciences – open a new theoretical framework where the relation between planning and ethics becomes a key-issue, in a planning perspective based on shared values such as trust, cooperation and mutual care. [b]Abstract submission deadline[/b]: March 20, 07 Starting from December 1st, the call for abstracts and all other information about the forthcoming Aesop Conference and related PhD workshop are available on the Conference’s official web site, [url=http://www.aesop2007napoli.it]www.aesop2007napoli.it[/url].