| 1. |
European
Integration and Housing Policy Devolution.
Fragmentation of housing policy:
* Into economic policy at the
EU/global level
* Into social policy at regional/local level
Coordinators: David Clapham, Walter Matznetter, Mark Stephens |
| 2. |
East
European Housing and Urban Policy
* Emerging or disappearing housing
finance
* New forms of safety nets in housing
* Urban renewal – only for the rich or also for the privatised poor
* How can urban planning influence the spatial dispersal of post
socialist cities
Coordinators: József Hegedüs, Iván Tosics |
| 3. |
Housing
in Developing Countries
* The forces behind urbanisation
* Environmental hazards
* Local mobilisation
Coordinators: Ann Schlyter, Cor Dijkgraaf, Chris Watson, Richard Groves |
| 4. |
Migration
and Residential Mobility
* A session on "Housing
careers" in order to publish a book
* International migration, regional migration, and residential mobility;
* Counterurbanisation/turn around migration
Coordinators: Lars-Erik Borgegård, Sako Musterd, Frans Dieleman |
| 5. |
Housing
Markets and Housing Economics (organised with AREUEA)
* Micro and macro models
* Housing construction and demand
* Policy and markets
Coordinators: Peter Englund, John Quigley, Michael Ball, Edwin Deutsch |
| 6. |
Demography,
New Technology and the Future Housing Market
* Population ageing and housing
demand
* House prices and slackening population growth
* The consequences of low fertility on housing careers
Coordinators: Hugo Priemus, Ted Koebel |
| 7. |
Housing
for the Elderly
* Retirement communities
* Housing and community care for the elderly
* Nursing homes and sheltered housing for the elderly
Coordinators: Georg Gottschalk, Jan Paulsson |
| 8. |
Young
Households: Housing and Urban Life
Cancelled |
| 9. |
Housing
Planning and Gender
Cancelled |
| 10. |
Housing,
Lifestyle and Social Interaction
* As cultural expressions of
different groups
* In the context of increasing spatial demarcation
* In the context of re-construction of working life and new technology
Coordinators: Wim Blauw, David Thorns |
| 11. |
Housing
for Minority Ethnic Groups
* Social, spatial and economic
integration of ethnic minorities
* Effects of segmentation and segregation
* Escaping difficulties: strategies of leaving disadvantaged situations
* Vibrant ethnic communities
Coordinators: Ronald van Kempen, Sule Özüekren |
| 12. |
Housing,
Social Exclusion and Homelessness (organised with ISA Research Committee on Housing and
the Built Environment)
* The social exclusion perspective
and housing related mechanisms
* Macro level mechanisms, housing systems and policy practices
* Micro level risk situations and housing-homelessness careers
* Policy innovations to combat social exclusion and homelessness
* Partnerships, responsibility and citizenship
Coordinators: Jan Vranken, Jürgen Friedrich |
| 13. |
Housing
and Health (organised with IAPS and EDRA)
* Beyond the medical model and
sanitary engineering approaches
* Cultural, psychological and social factors related to the
housing-health relationship
* Building bridges between housing and social welfare policies to promote
public health
Coordinators: Terry Hartig, Roderick Lawrence |
| 14. |
Urban
Life and Sustainable Development
* Social science aspects on
long-term sustainability of living, housing, building, and the urban habitat
* The environmental issue from political, policy, administrative,
economic, and socio-cultural perspectives
* Local, regional, national, supranational and global vistas
* Risk and sustainability approaches to energy, traffic, water, waste,
building, and health
Coordinator: Montserrat Pareja |
| 15. |
Housing
Finance (organised with AREUEA)
* Housing finance in a housing
policy context
* Financial markets and new financial instruments
* Convergence in the European financial markets
Coordinators: Nancy Wallace, Bengt Turner, Christine Whitehead |
| 16. |
Real
Estate Economics (organised with AREUEA)
* Real estate financial analysis
* Real estate securitization
* Analysis of international real estate markets
* Real estate in the global market
* Methods for analysis real estate market behaviour
Coordinators: Piet Eichholtz, Austin Jaffe, Stellan Lundström |
| 17. |
Housing
Management
* Housing management and the new
technology (IT)
* Efficiency in different organisations and in different tenures
* Empowerment, tenant participation and sustainable living
* Customerized management: "full-service tenancy",
"prosumer" partnership, or self-management
* The rent-setting mechanism and the level of repairs and maintenance
Coordinators: Tim Brown, Suzie Scott |
| 18. |
The
Future of Large Scale Housing Estates
* Housing rehabilitation or turn
around?
* New groups of tenants?
* The attractiveness of some peripheral locations
Coordinators: Richard Turkington, Hedvig Vestergaard |
| 19. |
Urban
Renewal and Housing Rehabilitation
* Sustainable planning
* Social exclusion
* Public-private partnerships
* Cultural strategies
Coordinators: Ingemar Elander |
| 20. |
Housing and Theory
* Applying social theories and
concepts in housing research
* Housing and discourse
* Housing and consumption theory
* Housing and environmental theory
* Postmodernism and housing
* Housing and The Third Way
Coordinators: Mark Bhatti, Craig Gurney |
| 21 |
Processes
of Change in Housing Areas
* Project implementation
* Organisational change
* Social sustainability
Coordinators: Barbara Allen, Liliana Padovani |
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