Housing Futures:
renewal, sustainability and innovation

European Network for Housing Research
Conference 1998

Place:
The conference is being hosted by the Centre for Housing Management and Development in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University, UK

Time:
7-11 September 1998

Deadline for Title and Abstract:
October 15 1996

Conference Theme:
The ENHR Conference 1998 aims to provide an intellectually stimulating environment for the discussion of the future of housing in an international context. The themes of renewal, sustainability and innovation are both topical and timely, and have relevance from a variety of perspectives - economic social, political, physical, technological, human and managerial. We are now inviting potential participants to submit abstracts of 500 words maximum to arrive by 15th March 1998. Full papers of 6000 to 8000 words must be submitted for refereeing by workshop leaders by 1st June 1998. The refereeing process for papers received by this date will be used as a basis to allocate papers to workshop sessions in the earlier part of the conference with opportunity for longer presentation and discussion time. Non-refereed papers submitted after 1st June 1998 will be allocated to shorter paper sessions towards the end of the conference. Refereed papers will be considered for publication in special thematic issues of refereed academic journals.

Topics:

• Housing costs and housing finance
• Markets, models and economic analysis Housing organisations and housing policies in comparative perspective
• Developing and applying theories in housing research
• Public, private and informal sector renewal and regeneration
• Socio-economic and demographic change, labour markets and spatial segregation
• Management, tenure, empowerment and social housing
• Housing needs and policies for minority and marginalised groups
• Meanings, values and experiential aspects of residential environments
• Sustainability, ecology and liveability in residential environments
• The design and planning of residential space
• The impact and potential of new technological and electrical systems
• Housing, health and well-being; critical analyses and innovative approaches

Contact:

For further details visit:
http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/cplan/enhr_con.html
For academic queries Email: Gurney@cardiff.ac.uk 
To submit abstracts Email: Conference@cardiff.ac.uk

Dr Craig M. Gurney
Centre for Housing Management and Development 
Department of City and Regional Planning
Cardiff University      PO Box 906 Cardiff CF1 3YN 
Tel: +44 1222 874462  E-mail: Gurney@Cardiff.ac.uk  Home Page: http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/cplan/stfcmg1.html