ILUS - International Land Use Symposium 2025

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More and more people live in urban settings. Globally, landscapes and regions are characterised by anthropogenic land use and land cover. With the increasing availability of geodata our view on these dynamics is rapidly shifting. While methods for global settlement analysis evolve, also fine grained, in-depth approaches arise for better understanding urban livelihoods on neighborhood to city level. What unites tools and methods is their potential for a better understanding of processes and causes of global phenomena such as habitat fragmentation and urban sprawl or dynamics within urban systems like densification. In order to identify, understand and address these processes to promote trajectories of sustainable urbanisation, new approaches are highly needed. ILUS 2025 will encourage an interdisciplinary debate that addresses spatial dynamics in urban socities, in particular via geospatial data, analysis, modeling and simulation. Contributions may be theoretical, methodological, or applied in nature. Research should address the following topics:

Topics

Critical Landscape Phenomena:  habitat fragmentation, biodiversity loss, animal movement, landscape permeability, urban spatial networks, accessibility, gravitational approaches, scaling, spatial interactions

Digital Twins and Decision Making: AI-based spatial data aquisition and modelling, real time information, enrichment of building data, citizen science

Urban Structure and Policy: Structures and dynamics of cities, trajectories of cities towards sustainability, causal inference, densification, suburbanization, interdisciplinary approaches to land policy, bridging quantitative and qualitative research.

Date: 6th and 7th November

Venue: Steigenberger "Hotel de Saxe", Dresden, Germany, more details soon.
 

Past events

2015
Trends in Spatial Analysis and Modelling of Settlements and Infrastructure

2017
Use of spatial modelling and data visualisation to enlighten future sustainable policy making

2019
Land use changes: Trends and projections

2021
Modelling an uncertain future: spatial data science for sustainable land use

2023
Urban Analytics for Transforming Cities and Regions: Tools, Methods and Applications