45^th Annual SCUPAD Congress May 9^th -12^th, 2013 in Salzburg, Austria

OUT OF THE BOX: Diverse Tools for Planning

Planners throughout the world use a variety of tools in their efforts to shape healthy communities. These range from traditional spatial planning and regulatory tools, to innovative processes for engaging authentic public participation. They include targeted public and private funding streams supporting urban and rural regeneration as well as conceptual and design tools. Today new methods, processes and instruments are emerging, driven by technological advancements, shifts in planning paradigms and our awareness that the global challenges we face are more complex than we previously understood.

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SCUPAD Congress 2013 will offer a trans-disciplinary look at today’s planners’ toolbox. Invited presenters will bring to light innovative tools used throughout the world, exploring examples from the well-wired and high-tech, to tools that engage and empower non-planners in efforts to preserve, re-imagine and shape the places they care about.

Our planning and development practices address everything from climate change, mobility problems, poverty, public health problems, housing, habitat and cultural preservation, among thousands of other interrelated forces. The tools we use and create today are as diverse as the people and places we plan with. We are no longer just planning for people; we are planning for an ecosystem.
Rapidly changing environments, our urgent need to create nourishing settlements for the millions of people born and migrating each year, and opportunities to bring elegance and justice to our places demands that we sharpen and expand our tools. Our increasing knowledge of the complexity of our work, and the risk of its unintended consequences, invites us to be more precise in selecting and creating the right tools for the right jobs.

Please keep your eyes on your inbox for updates about our out-of-the-box look at planner’s toolboxes at SCUPAD 2013, May 9-12, Salzburg, Austria. We hope you’ll join us as we explore proven and emerging methods/technologies/processes, share our experiences, and help sharpen and possibly even take home some new tools.

Click HERE to download the congress poster.