Demographic Changes and the New Landscapes for Planning 
Call for Papers for International Planning Studies - NEW DEADLINE 25 FEBRUARY 2008 

IPS aims at improving and enhancing discussion and exchange on current
and emerging planning
issues; on the development of theoretical and methodological framework;
and on innovative
perspectives within the field. Within these aims, IPS opens a call for
papers on the topic of
'Demographic Changes and the New Landscapes for Planning'. 

Demographic studies have seen huge changes in the past years, due to
changing nature of the object
of their studies. New trends have emerged in population growth and
decline, as well as population
movements and attitudes. These changes increasingly affect behaviours
towards location and the use
of space undertaken by individuals and societies. This has become a
concern in both developed as
well as developing countries. Most European countries see an
increasingly ageing population;
internal migrations from peripheral to central territories; and strong
pressure by migrants coming
from other countries external to its borders. Other parts of the world
register similar or
complementary changes. Many research work have been initiated and
conducted on this issue and
published papers cover some of the dynamics described in different
contexts. While the
Anglo-American world is slow in taking up, in other planning contexts a
plethora of papers have
addressed the subject, though only few of these findings are available
for English readers.

Too few have taken the occasion for reflecting on these issues as
elements changing the landscapes
of planning. With 'landscape' we mean here two different types of
landscape. The economic,
social and - most of all - political landscape within which planning
acts at local level. This is
the institutional landscape of planning; it changes abruptly following
demographic changes and
in-forms (often restricting) the space for planning. The second
landscape we refer to here is the
physical, emotional, identity-laden landscape that constitutes the
material background for
people's and local societies' behaviours in respect to land and its
uses.

Within this background demographic changes represent a challenge to
change and review the
principles (for example, growth as taken for granted and constituting
the main element) upon which
planning has been traditionally based and has flourished for nearly a
century. Are territories in
decline (in terms of population and/or economy) and shrinking cities
necessarily negative for
planning? They certainly are if we accept the current framework and
conditions of and for
development as paradigmatic and unchangeable, but could we think of and
develop alternative
paradigms and modes for action? Are there case studies that seem to
favour innovative and
different
approaches to this subject? Could we envisaged new and emerging
approaches to face these new
challenges for planning theory and practice? The call for paper will be
open until Friday 1
February
2008, papers will have to be submitted to the Editorial Manager and will
subsequently follow the
usual peer-reviewing procedure. Selected papers will be published in a
special issue edited by
Klaus
Kunzmann, John Lovering and Francesca Sartorio in Autumn 2008. Any query
to the editors or Denise
Phillips ([log in to unmask]). 

Planning, at the urban, regional and national and international levels,
faces new challenges,
notably those related to the growth of globalisation as both an
objective socio-economic process
and
a shift in policy-maker perceptions and modes of analysis. IPS addresses
these issues by
publishing
quality research in a variety of specific fields and from a range of
theoretical and normative
perspectives, which helps improve understanding of the actual and
potential role of planning and
planners in this context. Specific policy areas covered include, but not
solely, urban design,
economic development, environmental policy, spatial planning, housing,
transport, social
inclusion.
IPS fills a gap between the more specialist theoretical and empirical
journals in planning and
urban-regional studies. In doing so it throws new light on the
influences on, and effects of, the
evolution of planning theory, practice and process, and the outcomes of
planning, past and
present.
Contributors are invited to submit articles based on original empirical
or theoretical work, or
assessments or critiques
of existing studie
s that offer new perspectives, critical insights, or new
data to stimulate and inform debate over the future development of
planning. 



Dr. Francesca S. Sartorio
Lecturer in Planning
IPS European Editor
Cardiff University
School of City and Regional Planning
Glamorgan Building
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff CF10-3WA
Wales - UK

tel. +44 (0)29 20 87 6221
fax +44 (0)29 20 87 4845
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Dr. Susan Moore
Lecturer in Planning, Housing, Land and Property
School of City and Regional Planning
Cardiff University
Glamorgan Building
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff CF10 3WA
Wales, UK
tel: +44(0)29 2087 6085
fax: +44(0)29 2087 4845
email: [log in to unmask]
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