Thematic Scope

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. 

Call for Contributions

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. In the debate, we will in particular address the following 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
with Special Session on  Spatial Research Data Infrastructure and Generative-AI

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.
with Special Session on Urban Dynamics in Global South and Global North  

Abstract submission

We are looking forward to your contribution and meeting you in Dresden.
Abstracts can be submitted until 21^st July, 2025 (LAST CALL!) following the registration link.

On behalf of the organizing committee:
Martin Behnisch and Mathias Jehling