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Call for papers

Call for papers for 41st Annual SCUPAD Congress 2009 (May 14-17):
!Lifestyle? versus Life Patterns: Planning for new urban and rural inter-dependence

Abstract submission: 15.12.2008
Notification – Acceptance: 01.02.2009
Full-paper submission: 15.05.2009

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Academics, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit an abstract addressing one particular workshop of the event. The conference will be structured in two sub-themes, which fall under the remit of the general topic of the event:

  • Workshop 1: Expectations and Demands versus Accountability and Supply
    Moderator: Ivan Stanic, Municipality of Ljubljana, ivan@kaslc.com
  • Workshop 2: Density versus Intensity
    Moderator: Uri Mazor, A. Mazor - E. First Architects and City Planning,
    uri@mazor-first.com

Each sub-theme will comprise by a plenary contribution plus three presentations from accepted papers. 6 papers (3 papers per workshop) will be selected for the 41st SCUPAD Congress with regard to three criteria, namely:

  • their contribution to the aims and topic of the conference,
  • their capacity to address the questions raised, and
  • their originality of research, results and conclusions.

Submission guidelines:
Please submit your abstract of their proposed paper via email to hirschler@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at
by Monday, December 15th 2008.

Be aware, that the abstracts submitted after this date are not considered.

The abstract should be no more then 500 words long, and include the following:

  • Indication of the workshop to which the paper is submitted.
  • Paper’s Title
  • Writer’s name, affiliation and contact details (preferable email)
  • Outline the problem or the strategy discussed, and its relevance to the workshop theme.
  • If relevant references (no more then three should be included).

The successful contributors will be informed by Sunday, February 1st 2009 and will be asked to provide a full version of their paper (around 5.000 words) by Friday, May 1st 2009.

The papers accepted for presentation will be published on compact disk and on the SCUPAD website following the Congress. Upon acceptance of submitted proposals, authors will receive instructions on the format suggested for the papers and the presentations.

Registration
One presenter per paper will get free congress participation.
Information on registration costs (including a registration form)

Contact
Petra Hirschler, Vienna University of Technology
hirschler@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at
phone +43-1-58801-26036

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