
Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour – The City 2.0: smart People, Places, Planning
Program
Monday, November 11, 2019
08:00- 08:30 Coffee & Welcome
08:30 – 08:45 Opening Ceremony
Host: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University, USA
Organizers: Peter Nijkamp,...

Elevator Pitch Festival on “Unheard Things in Regional Science” in honour of Peter Nijkamp, TRSA Vice-President, for his 50th ERSA conference
Elevator Pitch Festival (EPF)
The EPF this year will be more spectacular than ever before. We expect more than 100 participants, who will...

Signatures of Regional Science: In the Footsteps of Walter Isard: an event to mark the centenary of the birth of Walter Isard, founder of regional science
Open Academic Forum
14:00 Welcome
Peter Nijkamp, Vice-President, The Regional Science Academy (TRSA)
Signatures of Regional Science
Chair: Peter Batey, President of TRSA

A Happy Marriage: Regional Science and Spatial Planning in the Digital Age
Monday, August 26th, 2019
13:30 Coffee and Welcome
Louafi Bouzuina (Chair ERSA 2018 LOC) and Peter Batey (President TRSA)
Chair: Karima Kourtit
13:45 Peter Batey

Urban Crisis and Rural Nostalgia
Elevator Pitch Festiva
Aims & Scope:
A fly-wheel operates in a dynamic attraction field, with a strong centrifugal or dispersion dynamics. An impulse in...

The New Geography of Happiness
Special Session at the ERSA Congress
Convenor(s): Peter Batey, Peter Nijkamp, Roger Stough, Karima Kourtit, John Östh
Chair: Alan Brown
Karima Kourtit, Edward...

The Entrepreneurial City
Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC)
Monday, August 27
13:30 Coffee and Welcome by:
Declan Jordan (Chair ERSA 2018 LOC)
Roger Stough (Vice-President TRSA)
Afternoon session:

The Regional Science Academy Session
Special session organised by The Regional Science Academy during the 57th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association.
Chair:
Peter NIJKAMP (Tinbergen...

Sustainable Urban and Regional Development – Research and Policy Challenges for the Asia-Pacific Rim
Organised by Renmin University of China, The Regional Science Academy and Regional Science Association International, this International Conference will be held at Renmin University...

Special Academic Session: Who Owns the City?
Keynote speech by Saskia Sassen.
Promoted by The Regional Science Academy and the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC), during the NARSC Conference.

Shared spaces in smart places
Special Academic Session hosted by Edward Glaeser and organised by Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Tigram Haas at the Harvard Kennedy School (Harvard University,...

2nd Congress of the Moroccan Association of Regional Science
The 2nd Congress of the Moroccan Association of Regional Science will be held in October 2017, in Rabat, organised by the Moroccan Association of...

Signatures of Regional Science (Groningen, 2017)
18:00-18:30
Hans Westlund (TRSA President)
Welcome address
18:30-19:00
Special Guest Speakers
Chair: Aura Reggiani
Andres Rodriguez-Pose
Believe it or not, the myth of European...

ABC meeting in Dalfsen (August 2017)
The Regional Science Academy organises an Advanced Brainstorming Carrefour meeting in the Dutch town of Dalfsen between the 27th and the 29th of August,...

Special Academic Sessions in Taiwan
The Regional Science Academy organizes 2 Special Academic Sessions during the 25th Pacific Conference of the Regional Science Association International in Tainan, Taiwan, with...

Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour in Split (Croatia)
In cooperation with the Faculty of Economics of the University of Split, The Regional Science Academy organizes an Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour under the title...

Special Academic Session in Santa Fe
The Regional Science Academy starts its activities in 2017 with an event organized in Santa Fe (USA), during the 56th Annual Meeting of the...

Advanced Brainstorming Carrefour workshop “It’s a Small World’: Big Data and Beyond’
Organized by Hans Westlund, Henk Scholten, Peter Nijkamp and Karima Kourtit, the Advanced Brainstorming Carrefour workshop “It’s a Small World’: Big Data and Beyond’...

Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour – Science of the City (Naples, 2016)
The Regional Science Academy, in cooperation with ICOMOS and UN-HABITAT UNIVERSITIES HUB, organized an “Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC) – Science of the City” meeting...

19th Tinbergen Research Workshop
The 19th Tinbergen Research Workshop was held at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam on May 2 and 3, 2016. The workshop was sponsored by...

Big Data, Transport Policies and Accessibility
Regional Science Academy, in cooperation with NECTAR Cluster 6, promoted a Special Academic Session ‘Big Data, Transport Policies and Accessibility’, organized by Pierre Zembri...

Urban Empires – Cities as Global Rulers in the New Urban World
Organized by Waldemar Ratajczak, Peter Nijkamp and Karima Kourtit, this ABC meeting aimed at organizing a fundamental brainstorm activity on the future position of...

Signatures of Regional Science (Vienna, 2016)
The Regional Science Academy will hold a Special Academic Session during the Congress of the European Regional Science Association, in Vienna. The event will...

Smart People in Smart Cities
The Regional Science Academy, in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics of Matej Bel University, will organize a workshop in the Slovakian city of...

Signatures of Regional Science in Minneapolis
Signatures of Regional Science
Chair:
Peter Nijkamp
Opening and Welcome:
Hans Westlund (President of the Regional Science Academy)
Part I (10:30 – 12:30):