August 4th to 9th 2013 in Kyoto

1. IGC 2013: Schedule & Venue

Schedule

August 4 (Sun) and 5 (Mon): Registration
August 5 (Mon): Opening ceremony
August 5 (Mon) to 8 (Thu): Commission’s session
* Our Sessions will be held form August 5th to 8th

Venue: International Conference Center Kyoto

2. Deadlines registration and abstracts

Registration :
starts on October 1st 2012

Submission of abstract:

Deadline: February 4th 2013

Abstracts and registration should be submitted to the organizing committee

indicating C12-39 Urban commission: urban challenges in a complex world

through the online system at: www.igu-kyoto2013.org 

3. Description of Urban commission’s sessions

C12-39 Urban commission: urban challenges in a complex world:

Commission Chair: Céline Rozenblat (celine.rozenblat@unil.ch)

Commission Vice-Chair Dan O’Donoghue (daniel.donoghue@canterbury.ac.uk)

Commission Contacts in Japan:

Masateru Hino (masateru@m.tohoku.ac.jp)

Keisuke Matsui (jiji@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp)

Session title 1:Complex urban system
Chairs: Celine Rozenblat, Masateru Hino
Session title 2:Technological innovations and creative activities in cities
Chairs: Celine Rozenblat, Masateru Hino
Session title 3 : Contested social spaces
Chairs: Celine Rozenblat, Keisuke Matsui
Session title 4 :Creating sustainability
Chairs: Celine Rozenblat, Masateru Hino
Session title 5 :Dilemmas of aging cities
Chairs: Celine Rozenblat, Keisuke Matsui
Session title 6 : Increasing Insecurity
Chairs: Celine Rozenblat, Masateru Hino
Session title 7 : Urban Heritage and Conservation
Chairs: Celine Rozenblat,Keisuke Matsui
Session title 8: Urban Governance
Chairs: Celine Rozenblat,Keisuke Matsui
Chairs for each session to be confirmed at later date.

Submission of abstracts:

www.igu-kyoto2013.org 

4. General registration fee

          Early                  Standard

Participant:       ¥49,000 (€500)      ¥55,000 (€560)

Student:           ¥20,000 (€203)      ¥30,000 (€305)

Accompanying:  ¥15,000 (€152)     ¥25,000 (€254)

5. Scientific excursions of the Urban commission

In the Kansai region, which mainly consists of three metropolitan areas of Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe.
There are a lot of urban geographers. Therefore, we want to request them to make a plan for scientific excursions.

We will announce the scientific excursions through our mailing list: iguurban@unil.ch

to subscribe to the mailing list: write to “sympa@unil.ch” with the object: “SUB iguurban First_name Name”, with an empty message.

and through homepage of our commission: www.igu-urban.com 

We are looking forward to see all of you in Kyoto in addition to Johannesburg next summer.