The IACP 2016 Conference Call for Abstracts

Dear IACP Members and Friends,

On behalf of the IACP Board of Directors, I would like to cordially invite you to submit abstracts to the 10th IACP Conference, June 30-July 3, 2016, in Beijing, China.

Four decades after its economic reform in the late 1970s, China is still undergoing rapid urbanization and socio-economic changes. Planning, as an important government function in China, has played a critical role in facilitating its urbanization process. At this critical junction of China’s repositioning its development strategies and seeking solutions to respond to a wide range of socio-economic, equity and environmental problems, governance and its relationship with planning has become more important than ever before. Governance is the exercise of political, economic and administrative authority in managing urban and rural development and its people’s wellbeing. Effective governance will provide mechanisms, processes, and institutions through which planning performs as public policies, and government, citizens, and other stakeholders articulate their interests, mediate their differences, and exercise their legal rights and obligations.

The theme of the 10th IACP Conference is “Governance and Planning in Transitional China”. The Conference will bring together planners, designers, scholars, scientists, and government officials from both China and all over the world to exchange their ideas.

Please submit your paper abstract of 200-300 words, in English only*, including the title, author(s), affiliation, contact address, telephone and email address, to http://www.chinaplanning.org/conf/index.php/iacp_10th by January 31, 2016.

Thank you for your participation and look forward to meeting you in Beijing.

Sincerely,

Weifeng Li
Member, Board of Directors, IACP
www.chinaplanning.org

Assistant Professor
Department of Urban Planning and Design
The University of Hong Kong