Scope of the conference

    Academic researchers, professionals and policy makers interested in the area of the conference are invited to present papers related to the conference topics. You can propose a paper title and abstract in the following sections:

 

  • I. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE URBAN SPACE PLANNING
    • Architecture, urban planning and housing
    • Public transport and urban connectivity
    • Cultural infrastructure
    • Infrastructure for recreation and sports
    • Urban nature: parks and green spaces
    • Waste management infrastructure
  • II. DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS AND GALLUP POLL OF THE CONTEMPORARY CITY
    • Demographic changes – spatial, social and cultural dimensions
    • Migration challenges and dynamics
    • Urban stratification of the population
  • III. TRANSFORMATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN MANAGEMENT
    • Urban governance and local self-government
    • Territorial distribution of production and jobs: trends, imbalances, solutions.
    • Order, safety and security in the city
    • Digital transformation of the cities
  • IV. SOCIOECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CITIES
    • Investments and entrepreneurship
    • Social and solidarity economy, sharing economy
    • Urban mobility, social and economic aspects
    • Changing relationship between town and village. Urbanization, peri-urbanization, rurbanization
  • V. CITIZENS AND THE CITY
    • New forms of participation in the urban community life
    • Urban cultures and sub-cultures as new forms of integration and disintegration
    • Civic movements and community mobilizations
    • Migration, multiculturalism and urban resistance

  • VI. TRANSFORMATIONS OF URBAN-RURAL RELATIONSHIPS

  • VII. CITIES WITHIN THE CITY – GHETTOIZATION, OPENNESS, DIVERSITY

  • VIII. IMAGINING AND REIMAGINING THE CITY: CITIES OF PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

Organizing Committee:

  • Co-presidents:

    Senior Assist. Prof. Dr. Radosveta Krastanova and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Juliana Vassileva

  • Members:

  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tsvetelina Marinova
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ildiko Otova
  • Dr. Albena Stambolova
  • Mrs. Magdalena Bozhkova
  • PhD Students Dimitar Ranguelov and Vanina
    Ninova
  • Students Boryana Stefanova, Emila-Lilia Petrova, Evgueniya Garabijska, Viktor Angelov, Ivan Krumov, Todor Todorov, Georgi Ganchev

Scientific Committee:

  • Agnieszka Młodzińska-Granek (SWPS, Pologne)
  • Albena Stambolova (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Arnaud Baubérot (Institut français de Bulgarie, Bulgaria)
  • Arturas Jurgelevicius (MRU, Lithuania)
  • Boyan Mantchev (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Boyan Znepolsky (Sofia University,Bulgaria)
  • Emmanuel Bioteau (Université d’Angers, France)
  • Carole Brunet (Université Paris 8, France)
  • Evelina Staykova (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Georgeta Ghebrea (Université de Bucarest, Roumanie)
  • Guergana Stefanova (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Gilles Rouet (Université Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)
  • Gueorgi Gueorguiev (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Ildiko Otova (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Iskra Christova-Balkanska (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Jean-François Ponsot (UGA, France)
  • Juliana Vassileva (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Justina Bernyak-Wozny (SWPS, Pologne)
  • Kristian Bankov (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Krzysztof Kowalski (Université Jagellonne de Cracovie, Pologne)
  • Kristiyan Hadzhiev (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Mohamed Ketata (Université de Rouen, France)
  • Roger Tsafack Nanfosso (Université de Dschang,Cameroun)
  • Moris Fadel (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Radosveta Krastanova (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Raphael Dornier (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Université Paris Dauphine, France)
  • Spartak Keremidchiev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Svetla Koleva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Tsvetelina Marinova (NBU, Bulgaria)
  • Yordanka Yovkova (UNWE, Bulgaria)