We are looking forward to receiving papers for our special session at the 21st Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies, August 21st – August 25th 2023, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
SPECIAL SESSION: Rethinking urban health: from healthy cities to healthy territories?
Deadline for the abstract submission is January 15th, 2023. Notification of acceptance will be e-mailed to the presenting author by February 28th, 2023. The presenting author of accepted abstracts has to be registered for the conference to be included in the conference program. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.
Please see details and submit here: https://isqols.org/2023call
Organizers:
Lukas Höller (Chair): PhD Candidate; TU Delft; Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment; Spatial Planning and Strategy; Email: [log in to unmask]
Rodrigo Cardoso (Co-chair): Assistant Professor; TU Delft; Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment; Spatial Planning and Strategy; Email: [log in to unmask]
Abstract:
The current dominant concepts guiding urban governance, policy, and planning are strongly based on economic growth imperatives, putting material and techno-managerial priorities over others. Increasingly, alternative health and wellbeing frameworks are being advanced to address the failures of prior approaches to urban development. However, if economy-driven approaches mainly operate across global to regional and local scales, health and well-being alternatives must equally be conceptualized and operationalized at multiple scales. So far, most such frameworks are too focused on local scales, which creates a problem for them to become credible alternatives to steer development. Current challenges, such as coping with climate change impacts and biodiversity loss, socio-economic inequalities, and the energy and mobility transitions, are driven by large-scale processes. While their impacts can be mediated in 'frontrunner' cities, they can only be holistically tackled on a territorial scale through large-scale cooperation. A potential answer would be a shift from a localized perspective on urban health and well-being (healthy city) towards a healthy territory vision based on shared geographies enabling cooperative and integrated networks of cities jointly pursuing health and wellbeing goals.
The proposed special session aims to discuss the need for re-conceptualizing and re-operationalizing health and wellbeing approaches towards considering the larger scales and multiple territorial networks where cities operate, urban challenges materialize, and shared capacities emerge. By bringing together researchers (in and outside of academia) that investigate health and wellbeing on a territorial scale, the special session will collect a critical mass of knowledge, including but not restricted to:
- Case studies on health and well-being along shared geographies (e.g. Water Sea/Rivers, Natural Planning Regions), within urban capacity-building networks and critical territories (e.g. port city territories, logistic/infrastructure corridors, etc.)
- Problems driven by the current localized, urban-centered, and primary-city-biased research on health and wellbeing (e.g. spatial inequalities)
- The struggles of different cities to gather capacities for healthy/well-being-driven development
- Re-operationalizing research on health/wellbeing for a territorial scale, including data collection and analysis across trans-national regions; re-conceptualization and changing measurements of health and wellbeing beyond economic/techno-managerial scopes and the urban scale.
- Policy perspectives on which territorial measures contribute to health and wellbeing.
Please contact us for further questions and we look forward to receiving your contributions!
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