Global Challenges for Regions and Cities: Adaptation, Development, Governance

We welcome papers addressing the following themes:

• New challenges and pressures for regions and cities

• Macroeconomic processes and global trends: regional projection

• Regions and cities: models of adaptation for new economic reality. Urban and regional leadership

• New forms of industrial development and policies. Competitiveness of industrial regions and cities in modern conditions.

• Unemployment, migration, demographic shifts: hardship and social tensions

• Policies for shrinking cities

• Rural areas under new pressures. Marginalization of rural peripheries. Suburbanization processes

• Financial crisis, resilience and recession: impacts for regions and cities, factors of disparities

• Austerity and the financing of urban and regional investment

• Public-private financial investments and ventures for regional and urban development

• City and region building: governance and institutions

• Regional policy in post-soviet countries: old legacies and new challenges

• Trust and accountability as factor of territorial development, participatory democracy, participatory budgeting