Programme

ECTQG’2023 will take place in Braga (Portugal) between 14 and 17 September 2023 according to the following programme structure:

14/set 15:00-18:00 Student workshop 16/set 09:30-11:00 Keynote talk 2
18:00-21:00 Registration 11:00-11:30 Coffee-break
Welcome cocktail & light dinner 11:30-13:00 Parallel sessions 4
15/set 08:00-09:00 Registration 13:00-14:30 Lunch-buffet
09:00-09:30 Opening session 14:30-16:00 Keynote talk 3
09:30-11:00 Keynote talk 1 16:00-16:30 Coffee-break
11:00-11:30 Coffee-break 16:30-18:00 Parallel sessions 5
11:30-13:00 Parallel sessions 1 19:30-22:30 Conference dinner
13:00-14:30 Lunch-buffet 17/set 09:30-11:00 Keynote talk 4
14:30-16:00 Parallel sessions 2 11:00-11:30 Coffee-break
16:00-16:30 Coffee-break 11:30-13:00 Parallel sessions 6
16:30-18:00 Parallel sessions 3 13:00-14:30 Lunch-buffet
14:30-16:00 Parallel sessions 7
16:00-16:30 Closing session

The full programme is expected to be announced in July 2023.

KEYNOTE TALKS

Going Nowhere fast: the illusion of speed and the depletion of proximity

Dr. Cecília Silva is Assistant Professor with habilitation at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), and senior researcher at CITTA – the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment. She is a Civil Engineer with specialization in Spatial Planning and Urban Mobility. Her main research fields include Accessibility Planning, Sustainable Mobility, Mobility Management, and Planning Support Instruments; research developed in close connection to local planning practice. She is mainly interested in integrated land use and transport policies for human-scale cities. More information about her is at https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/031F-4F1E-765E

Modelling urban economic segregation: a theoretical and quantitative quest for causal processes and their interactions across scales

Dr. Clémentine Cottineau is a quantitative urban geographer, currently Assistant Professor of urban studies at TU-Delft. Her main area of research revolves around modelling the evolution of economic segregation and inequality between and within cities, using systematic literature reviews, longitudinal analysis of empirical microdata and generative agent-based modelling. She holds a PhD in Geography from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. During previous research positions at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and CNRS’s Centre Maurice Halbwachs between 2014 and 2020, Clémentine has worked on the patterns and regularities of urban scaling laws, shrinking cities and industrial geographies.

Everyday geographies, neighbourhood effects and urban segregation

Dr. Julie Vallée is a social geographer working in the Géographie-cités laboratory in France and holding a senior research position at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). For the past 15 years, Julie has been using quantitative methods to explore and interconnect people's daily mobility, urban segregation, neighbourhood effects and social inequalities, especially in health. She is the scientific leader of Mobiliscope, an open tool available for a large number of city regions in France, Canada and Latin America and displaying interactive maps and graphs to explore how cities, neighbourhoods and social segregation change around the clock.

Digital Planning: a usability challenge

Prof. Dr. Stan Geertman is emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has published widely in scientific and practice-oriented journals and has published a range of (editorial) books. He is member of the editorial board of several scientific journals (e.g., CEUS). He has been member of a range of international conference organizations (EGIS; JECC; AGILE; DDSS) and was chair of the Board of Directors of CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) during past 10 years. His research interests include Planning and Decision Support Systems (PSS / DSS), Digital Planning, Sustainable Urbanization, and Planning Theory and its implications for practice.

SPECIAL SESSIONS

(The description/scope of the special sessions is available here)

Quantifying Future Development
Eric Koomen (V.U. Amsterdam), Bart Rijken (PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency), & Fernando Bação (New U. Lisbon)

Uncovering Urban Mobility Patterns from Digital Footprint Data
Chen Zhong (U.C. London), Carmen Cabrera-Arnau (U. Liverpool), Qili Gao (U.C. London), & Yang Zhou (Central China Normal U.)

Uncovering Intra-urban Spatial Patterns
Cyrille Genre-Grandpierre (U. Avignon), & Giovanni Fusco (U. Côte d’Azur)

From Dynamic Mobility Flows to Functional Systems: Communities, Urban Networks, and Regions
Olle Järv (U. Helsinki), & Ate Poorthuis (K.U. Leuven)

Data-driven Approaches for Understanding Landscapes of our Changing Planet
Marj Tonini (U. Lausanne), Christian Kaiser (U. Lausanne), Jingyan Yu (U. Lausanne), & Alex Hagen-Zanker (U. Surrey)

The "15-Minute City" Model: Innovations, Trends, and Future Challenges for Modelling the Proximity Planning
Chiara Garau (U. Cagliari), Beniamino Murgante (U. Basilicata), Valerio Cutini (U. Pisa), & Claudia Yamu (Oslo Met. U.)

Spatio-temporal Data Science: Harnessing Big Data and AI for Geocomputation
Beniamino Murgante (U. Basilicata), Itzhak Benenson (Tel Aviv U.), Federico Amato (E.P.F. Lausanne), Antonino Marvuglia (Luxembourg I.S.T.), & Federico Martellozzo (U. Florence)

Theoretical Geography
Clémentine Cottineau (T.U. Delft), Isabelle Thomas (U.C. Louvain), Denise Pumain (U. Paris I), & Juste Raimbault (ENSG, Gustave Eiffel U.)

Spatial Dynamics of Networks
Celine Rozenblat (U. Lausanne), & Zachary Neal (Michigan S.U.)

New Methods for the Validation of Spatial Simulation Models
Juste Raimbault (U. Gustave Eiffel, IGN-ENSG), Denise Pumain (U. Paris 1), & Romain Reuillon (ISC-PIF, CNRS)