Conference: Managing Growth of Metroplolitan Areas

Dear participants and visiting professors, the conference on Managing Growth of  Metroplolitan Areas is organised in parallel to our event. Therefore we will have the joint activities including welcome session, major speeches, meals and others.

There is also a possibility to present a paper during that conference and submit the article. Anybody ineterested is asked to send an abstract of the proposed speech and contact the organisers:

Society of Polish Town Planners, Gdansk Branch

Gdansk University of Technology, Architecture Faculty

ul. G. Narutowicza 11/12, pok. 414 GG

80-233 Gdansk, Poland

phone +48 605 433 885 (Piotr Lorens, PhD., DSc., Arch.), fax. +48 58 347 16 06, e-mail: plorens@pg.gda.pl 

phone +48 502 075 512 (Sławomir Ledwoń,PhD., Arch.), e-mail: sled@pg.gda.pl

The abstract should be sent to the organisers no later than 7^th of May 2012.

Conference topic is closely related to the issue of managing growth of metropolitan areas. This has to be considered in relation to topics of spatial management, socio-economic development and implementation of metropolitan areas development strategies, which includes the issues of social, economic, competitiveness and other nature. Also, the political and institutional aspects of this topic will be taken into consideration, which will include discussion of possible models of managing the metropolitan areas and chances for their implementation. The basis of this discussion will be formed by presentation of selected topics by both Polish and foreign experts. International cases should become a reference for discussion on the development of metropolitan area management in Poland.

The conference presentations will include four major groups of papers, strictly connected with the topics of the sessions. Those will be:

· theoretical aspects of metropolitan area development management in the context of contemporary trends and needs

· practice of managing the metropolitan development processes – with a choice of Polish and foreign examples

· development projects, enterprises and their role in the process of controlling the development of contemporary metropolis

· main difficulties and challenges in the construction of metropolitan area management system

The main aim of the conference is to gather the material for further theoretical work on the management model for metropolitan areas in Poland. That will also serve as a basis for formulating recommendations for governmental and self-governmental (including local and regional) authorities in terms of seeking local solutions to the problem. Mostly there will be recommendations to form the model for the Tri-City Metropolitan Area.