Convenor: Dr Silvia Gullino, School of Surveying and Planning, Kingston University

Global changes - such as economic recession, environmental and terrorist threats and wide spread inequalities - are creating new responsibilities for planners and urbanists. This track explores how different urban, rural and suburban spatial contexts face global challenges in, across and through a wide range of different regeneration processes and practices. The main issues addressed here are:

• regeneration and social and cultural changes
• regeneration and economic crisis
• regeneration and climate change
• regeneration and green infrastructure
• regeneration and the delivery of sustainable transport
• regeneration and multiculturalism/diversity
• regeneration and sustainability
• regeneration and urban securisation
• regeneration and community ownership and responsibility

The track will provide a forum for discussion of these complex and interwoven themes.

Whilst it is anticipated that many contributors will explore these concerns in relation to the UK-Ireland context, we also welcome papers that focus on European and global experiences.

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