Dear all,
we would like to draw your attention to the Call for Abstracts for the Special Session (SS15) on “Knowledge, Creativity and New Urban Dynamics: What Opportunities for Low Density Regions?” of the 24th Congress of the Portuguese Association of Regional Development “Intellectual Capital and Regional Development: New landscapes and challenges for space planning”. The congress will be held in Covilha (Portugal), 6-7 July 2017. Here follows a brief description of the scope and topics of this special session.
The role of knowledge and creativity in fostering local and regional competitiveness has been widely explored in many high- and medium-density regions of Central and North Europe. However, little has been done related to regions from south-western European regions with low population, institutional and relational density, like the case of the countryside regions of Portugal and Spain. Interestingly, knowledge-based and creativity-based approaches to local development emerge as a new fertile terrain to explore. The creation of new niches of excellence in the field of creative business and entrepreneurship, culture and university teaching and research appear as a vibrant opportunity to permit Portugal's and Spain's low-density regions to create a new efficient, sustainable and innovative organizational and instrumental armor capable of integrating such low-density territories into new joint transnational actions of scientific, cultural and economic development.
Contributions participating in this special session on “Knowledge, Creativity and New Urban Dynamics in Low Density Regions” will focus on one or more topics below mentioned:
1. The role of university in future social, cultural, economic development of countryside small cities;
2. New policy and governance actions facing transnational processes of urban change;
3. Smart and sustainable livability and mobility;
4. The integration of low-density regions and/or small-sized cities in the global urban system;
5. Post-rural places in motion: The politics of proximity, creativity and entrepreneurship in low-density regions
We invite you to write a 400-word abstract and send it through the online platform of the congress: (
http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2017/abstractpaper-submission.html) by 28 April 2017 as latest. For any further information or question you may require, you can email us (Ass. Prof. Domingos Vaz:
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Kind regards,