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Location: Jesuitenkeller
Campus of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Vienna
Date: Monday, 08/Sept/2025
2:00pm
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3:30pm
151 (I): Spatio-temporal infrastructures and policies for a just post-growth transformation (I)
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Karl Kraehmer
Chair: Sarah Ware
 

“I walk, I see, I do”. On the transformative potential of hidden informal greening practices in the Czech Republic and Estonia

Anja Decker1, Bianka Plüschke-Altof2

1: Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; 2: School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Estonia



Infrastructuring a community-led urban economy? Common good-oriented development in Freiburg’s Kleineschholz district

Benedikt Schmid

University of Freiburg, Germany



Moving beyond the city as growth machine: Theoretical insights and new empirical evidence on urban growth dependencies

Sarah Bretschko

Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain

4:00pm
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5:30pm
151 (II): Spatio-temporal infrastructures and policies for a just post-growth transformation (II)
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Karl Kraehmer
Chair: Sarah Ware
 

Confronting traditional spatial planning with existential challenges. ‘Resilience check’ of metropolitan planning systems

Ivan Tosics

Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary



Temporalities of transition: digital time as infrastructural barrier to post-growth transformation

Trish Morgan

Dublin City University, Ireland



The right to the ecological city: Reconciling ecological sustainability and social justice in a neighbourhood transformation in Turin

Karl Kraehmer

Università di Torino, Italy



Planning and the transition to post-growth infrastructures.

Daniel, William Durrant

University College London, United Kingdom

Date: Tuesday, 09/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
139 (I): To be or not to be … mobile. (Im)Mobility in left behind areas (I)
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Prof. Daniel Göler
Chair: Dr. Jennifer McGarrigle
 

Does “left-behindness” matter for staying in place?

Erik Sacha, Mila Miletić

Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany



Migration and Return: Establishing or Re-Establishing the Bonds of Place Attachment

Paula Andreea Tufiș1, Ana Sofia Santos2, Jennifer McGarrigle3, Mădălina Manoilă4, Barbara Staniscia5

1: Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest; 2: Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon; 3: Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon; 4: Research Institute for the Quality of Life (ICCV), Romanian Academy of Sciences; 5: Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies, Sapienza University of Rome



To migrate abroad or not?- Aspirations for international mobility and immobility under the influence of own migration experience

Monica Șerban1, Paula Andreea Tufis2, Mădălina Manoilă1

1: Research Institute for the Quality of Life (ICCV), Romanian Academy of Sciences; 2: Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest



Exploring Left-behindness and (Im)mobility in Europe: A Six-country Comparative Analysis

Barbara Staniscia, Giulia Fiorentino, Astrid Safina

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

11:00am
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12:30pm
139 (II): To be or not to be … mobile. (Im)Mobility in left behind areas (II)
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Prof. Daniel Göler
Chair: Dr. Jennifer McGarrigle
 

Diverse mobilities in left behind areas: voices from Latvia

Zaiga Krišjāne, Maris Bērziņš, Maija Rozīte, Toms Skadiņš, Ralfs Niklavs Sakss

University of Latvia, Latvia



Moving or Commuting to Opportunity? Interrelationships Between Spatial and Social Mobility in Left-Behind Places

Josef Bernard

Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic



The “New Fundanenses”: How newcomers are re-shaping the face of the city in a left behind territory

André Saramago1, Ana Santos2, Filipa Batista3, Jennifer McGarrigle1

1: University of Lisbon, Portugal; 2: O Lugar Comum; 3: Municipality of Fundão



The sense of place of asylum seekers and refugees in left behind areas of Abruzzo (Italy).

Giovanna Di Matteo

Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy

2:00pm
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3:30pm
191 (I): Micro-marginality and fragmentation in urban areas (I)
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Prof. Dolores Sánchez-Aguilera
 

Residential insecurity and social exclusion. Squatting geographies of Barcelona.

Dolores Sánchez-Aguilera, Anna Torres-Delgado, Josep Coma-Guitart

University of Barcelona, Spain



Reproduction of Marginality and Renewed Urban Fragmentation in the Northeastern Regeneration Front of Barcelona.

José Ignacio Vila Vázquez

University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain



The Housing Emergency and the Declaration of Areas with Regulated Rents in Spain

Juan M. Parreño Castellano, Claudio Moreno Medina

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

4:00pm
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5:30pm
191 (II): Micro-marginality and fragmentation in urban areas (II)
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Prof. Dolores Sánchez-Aguilera
 

Shared Spaces in the Everyday Life of a Medium-Sized City: Beyond Hägerstrand

José Lasala Fortea, Carme Bellet Sanfeliu

Universitat de Lleida, Spain



Inner suburbanisation process – as a scene of micro-marginality in regional centres of Hungary

Gabor Nagy

HUN-REN RCERS, Hungary



Urban fragmentation as an effect of marginalisation processes. The case of Upper Silesian Conurbation

Krystian Heffner, Piotr Gibas

University of Economics in Katowice, Poland



Geographical marginalisation in urban areas

Stanko Pelc

University of Primorska, Slovenia

Date: Wednesday, 10/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
150: Urban Spaces for Well-Being and Care in a Changing Europe
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Dr. Maria Lindmäe
Chair: Dr. Mizan Rambhoros
 

Building Child-Friendly Cities: Lessons from the International Child-Friendly Cities Initiative and its implementation in Europe

Sara Mellinato

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy



Urban Spaces of Caring Communities and new Urban Cultures of Care in Austria, Hungary, and the Netherlands

Dóra Gábriel1, Valentin Fröhlich2, Florian Pimminger2

1: HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary; 2: Johannes Kepler University, Linz



Psychiatric Care in the City – Human Scale and Social Condensers

Manuel Singer

Vienna University of Technology, Austria



What Do Children Need? The Role of Informal Open Spaces in Planning Practices to foster Children's Well-Being in Suburbia

Tilmann Teske, Sarah Friedel, Angela Million

Technical University Berlin, Germany

11:00am
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12:30pm
180: Agronomic Production and Water Resources: Strategies, Innovations, and Practices for Climate Change Resilience
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Dr. Lucia Grazia Varasano
Chair: Dr. Luisa Spagnoli
 

How is agriculture adapting to climate change?

Csaba Vaszkó1, András Huszár1, Róbert Barna2, Éva Pudleiner3

1: Green Policy Center, Hungary; 2: Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences; 3: PÉva Művek



Possibilities for Profound Land-use Change in a Drying Area

Boldizsár Gergely Megyesi1,3, Alexandra Czeglédi1, Péter Kajner2, András Király2, György Pataki1

1: Environmental Social Sciences Research Group Nonprofit Ltd., Hungary; 2: WWF Hungary; 3: Centre for Social Sciences



Water Resources and Agronomic Strategies in North Africa: Adapting to Climate Change Challenges

Aleksandar Valjarević

University of Belgrade, Serbia



Valorisation of Natural and Cultural Heritage of rural areas in a Climate Change context

Giulia Lussana, Giulio Senes, Sara Fortusini

University of Milan, Italy

4:00pm
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5:30pm
156: Social Movements in Times of Commodification of Housing and the Anthropocene
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Dr. Cornelia Dlabaja
2nd Session Chair: Antje Daniel
 

Urban activism to improve the environmental quality of Polish cities in the times of the Anthropocene

Katarzyna Gorczyca1, Daria Zozulia1,2

1: Faculty of Geography and Geology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland; 2: Doctoral School in the Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland



Rethinking Protest Camp: Improvisation and Autonomy in Japan’s Hida-Takayama Mountanious Area

Kyoko Tominaga

Ritsumeikan University, Japan



Social Movements and Commons as Alternatives to Housing Commodification in Groningen

Bart Filip Popken

University of Groningen, Netherlands, The



Heritage from Below: Urban Grassroot Activism and the Politics of Socialist Modernist Heritage

Jovana Janinovic

University of Montenegro, Montenegro

Date: Thursday, 11/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
204: Looking at the overlooked urbanities: People, practices and left-behind cities
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Dr. Julia Wesely
2nd Session Chair: Yimin Zhao
 

Overlooked inhabitations: countering the dominant gaze of the city through spatial practices of houseless urban dwellers

Paroj Banerjee

UCL, United Kingdom



Left Behind or Left Out? An Intersectional Examination of the Concept “Left Behindness" with regard to the overlooked realities of migrant and racialized communities

Daniele Karasz, Adrienne Homberger, Sladana Adamovic

TU Wien, Austria



From Industrial Ruins to New Realities: The Transformation of Armenian Post-industrial Towns

Aram Vartikyan1, Harutyun Vermishyan2

1: Yerevan State University, Armenia; 2: Yerevan State University, Armenia



Urban transformation in an intermediate city: waterfront redevelopment in Alkmaar, Netherlands

Marco Bontje

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

11:00am
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12:30pm
149 (I): Nature is Dead! Who Killed It? Transitions to a Future 'Without Nature' (I)
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Dr. Eleonora Guadagno
Chair: Sara Bonati
3rd Session Chair: Ginevra Pierucci, 4th Session Chair: Marco Tononi
 

What “nature” in climate policy? From the loss of nature to nature as a resource

Sara Bonati1, Claudia Morsut2

1: Università degli studi di Genova, Italy; 2: University of Stavanger, Norway



Vegetal Geography and Public Policy: Advancing the Implementation of Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Areas

Luca Battisti, Federico Cuomo, Egidio Dansero

University of Turin, Italy



Greening and adaptation: the role of urban nature in the climate change strategies of medium-sized cities

Emanuele Garda, Gregorio Pezzoli, Marco Tononi

University of Bergamo, Italy



Questioning Development and Corruption: Grassroots Practices of Protecting Nature in Belgrade, Serbia

Ognjen Kojanic

University of Belgrade, Serbia

4:00pm
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5:30pm
149 (II): Nature is Dead! Who Killed It? Transitions to a Future 'Without Nature' (II)
Location: Jesuitenkeller
Chair: Dr. Eleonora Guadagno
Chair: Sara Bonati
3rd Session Chair: Ginevra Pierucci, 4th Session Chair: Marco Tononi
 

International transport of wild animals between zoos as an element of species biodiversity protection – causes and conditions. A case study of a zoo in Wroclaw, Poland.

Weronika Cecylia Michalska

University of Warsaw, Poland



Remember our Roots: Museum as a space of nature mourning and social infrastructure in Palermo

Katharine Kurtz, Emanuela Caravello

University of Palermo



Youth Perception of Climate Change: Enhancing Risk Communication for a Sustainable Future

Eleonora Gioia, Noemi Marchetti, Fausto Marincioni

Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy



Living an integral ecology: how do Christian ecologists reimagine the relationship between society and nature?

Nathan Gabriel Daligault

University of Strasbourg, France


 
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