56th IFHP - International Federation
for Housing and Planning
World Congress
Gothenburg 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS

Gothenburg, Sweden
DEADLINE: 01.02.2012
IFHP International Federation for Housing and Planning
World Congress

THEME OF THE CONGRESS 
The City of Gothenburg will host the 56th IFHP World Congress. The aim of the congress is to develop an understanding of different levels of urban development from a number of perspectives: the immediate environment, the city as a totality and cities on a global level. The Congress aims to examine the interrelationship between the social, financial and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. The primary focus will be on social sustainability with the overall theme The Inclusive City in a Global World, which will have two main focuses:
1. How can social planners and urban developers together with other bodies contribute to counteracting growing social segregation in our cities?
2. Many of the world's cities are about to embark on major urban transformation projects. For whom and with whom we are developing our cities and what are the new tools available to us?

SUBMISSION FORMAT
IFHP and the City of Gothenburg invite practitioners and researchers to present practice and research that can contribute with knowledge on challenges and problems, as well as potential solutions, embedded in the main theme of the congress: Inclusive Cities in a Global World. The language concerned is English.
The papers may concern approaches, methods and tools for planners, developers and other actors in urban development processes that can counteract social segregation and exclusion in cities. 
Deadline for the submission of abstracts - maximum one A4 - is the 1st of February 2012.

PROGRAM
The congress is organized by seminars, workshops and visits to different places in Gothenburg. The event will be devided into four days in which will be developped three specific themes faced by different keynotes speakers:

September 16
• Opening Lecture 
September 17 
CHALLENGES
• Nicole Foss (Canada)
• Lars Reuterswärd (Sweden)
September 18
VISION 
• Anneli Hultén (Sweden) 
• Rob Adams (Australia)
September 19
TOOLS
• Carin Smuts (South Africa)
• Cord Soehlke (Germany)


FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACTS
• Congress Web Page
56th IFHP World Congress Gothenburg 2012
• Project leader:
Klas Forsberg
Tel: +46 (0)31 368 06 18 
Email: ifhp2012@stadshuset.goteborg.se
• Partnership and Sponsoring:
Cecilia Möllerstrandh
Tel: +46 768 401 416 
Email: cecilia.mollerstrandh@prove.se
• Organizer:
Mikael Sjöholm
Tel: +46 (0)31 20 10 15 
Email: Mikael@nordicevent.se