Gothenburg, Sweden,
September 16-19, 2012
and the 56th IFHP
World Congress.
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Sunday, September 16 • Arrival and opening ceremony |
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13.00 |
Registration opens at the Clarion Hotel Post |
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15.00 – 16.30 |
City Tour Gothenburg (meeting point: outside Clarion Hotel Post) |
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17.00 |
Opening Ceremony at the Clarion Hotel Post • Words of Welcome by the President of IFHP Flemming Borreskov and the Mayor of the City of Gothenburg Anneli Hulthén |
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Congress Lectures • Claudio Acioly, UN-HABITAT: Global view |
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18.30–20.00 |
Welcome reception |
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Monday, September 17 • Knowledge required to handle uncertainty and complexity |
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8.30 |
Presentation of Congress Partner |
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8.50 |
Nicole Foss (CAN): Urban Planning Challenges in an Era of Financial Crisis |
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9.30 |
Coffee break |
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10.00 |
Jane-Frances Kelly (AUS): Housing Preferences and City Structure: the Australian Experience |
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10.45 |
Lars Reuterswärd (SWE): Mistra Urban Futures – Strategies and Program |
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11.25 |
Presentations of Congress Partners |
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12.00 |
Lunch & Transport (public) to the sites of the study visits |
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13.30–17.15 |
Study visits with paper presentations and seminars (parallel sessions, various sites) |
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17.30–19.15 |
Dutch Debate (language: NL, open to the congress participants, location to be announced) |
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Tuesday, September 18 • Political visions and ambitions to meet future challenges |
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8.30 |
Presentation of Urbego Workshop (September 15–17 in Gothenburg) |
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9.00 |
Anneli Hulthén and Bo Aronsson (SWE): RiverCity Gothenburg – Open to the World |
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9.40 |
Coffee break |
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10.05 |
Andrew Boraine (ZA): Effective Partnerships for Inclusive Growth: Getting from Vision to Action |
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10.45 |
Peter Örn (SWE): Sustainable Cities – Challenges and Opportunities |
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11.20 |
Samuel Okello (KEN): Global South Perspective |
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12.00 |
Lunch & Transport (public) to the sites of the study visits |
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13.30–17.15 |
Study visits with paper presentations and seminars (parallel sessions, various sites) |
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19.30 |
Congress Party with dinner at Eriksbergshallen, Gothenburg |
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Wednesday, September 19 • Tools of the future |
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8.30 |
Spontaneous City Workshop results by Gert Urhahn and Bernardina Borra |
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9.05 |
Carin Smuts (ZA): Inspiration and Dreams |
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9.40 |
Coffee break |
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10.00 |
Cord Soehlke (GER): Small-scaled, Mixed, Diverse – the Tübingen Concept of Urban Development |
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10.40 |
Ann McAfee (CAN): Vancouver: Testing Tools |
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11.20 |
Göteborg 2021 |
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11.45 |
Round-up of Congress |
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12.00 |
Announcement of IFHP Centenary Year and Congress 2013 in London |
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12.30 |
Lunch |
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afternoon |
Extra-congress event “Cities as Value Networks” by Mistra Urban Futures: all are welcome! |
