Read the Welcome to Dalian by the ISOCARP President Pierre Laconte (2006-2009) and the Mayor of the City of Dalian, XIA Deren.
Download the overview of this year’s Congress Theme and Objectives.
Study the Congress Programme
Print the Presentation Schedule >> Workshops 1-6
Joint Sessions Programme
- Comprehensive planning: a sustainable urban development strategy
- Water Territory Planning Session
Download the programme for the Joint Sessions.
Introduction to the Congress
Below you will find the introductory papers by the General Rapporteur Detlef Kammeier and the Workshop Rapporteurs.
Introduction to the congress by the General Rapporteur H. Detlef Kammeier
Introductory Report by the General Rapporteur.
Workshop introductory reports
WS 1: The Economics of urban Sprawl vis-à-vis the regulatory Framework – contrast or complementarity?
Rapporteur Bijendra K. Jain, India
Chair: Hari Srinivas, India/Japan
Introductory report >> Intro report
WS 2: Public Transport, Road Pricing, Congestion Management and urban Land Use Development
Rapporteur: Peter Ross, United Kingdom
Chair: Gildo Seisdedos, Spain
Introductory report >> Intro report
WS 3: Concepts and Policies against urban Sprawl: compact city, eco-city, city greening, and similar concepts
Rapporteur: Garry Smith, Australia
Chair: Shi Nan, China
Introductory report >> Intro report
WS 4: Metropolitan Management as Part of an urban Development and Governance Framework
Rapporteur: Tang Zilai, China
Chair: Waikeen Ng, Singapore/Ireland
Introductory report >> Introreport
WS 5: Integrating ecological Management and cultural Heritage Conservation Agendas in urban Development
Rapporteur: Isabel Viana, UruguayChair: Ruan Yisan, China
Introductory report >> Intro report
WS 6: Patterns between Sprawling and compact City Forms
Rapporteur: Ineke Hulshof, Netherlands
Chair: Mairura Omwenga, Kenya
Introductory report >> Intro report
Congress Team
General Rapporteur
The General Rapporteur of ISOCARP’s 2008 World Planning Congress is H. Detlef Kammeier (Thailand). He was Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok for 25 years (1976-2000), a reputed international postgraduate institute with students and faculty members from all over the world. Based in Bangkok and in Munich (Germany), he is an independent researcher and consultant with international agencies in Asia and the Middle East, and a visiting professor at the international Urban Management Programme of the Technical University of Berlin. H. Detlef Kammeier was born and educated in Germany, he has been an ISOCARP Member since 1984, and he was one of the Vice Presidents in 1998-2004. His professional and academic experience (reflected in a large number of publications) covers a wide range of subject areas, from regional planning to environmental management, urban conservation, and computer-aided analysis and planning methods. His work has been focused on Asia for more than 30 years, but it also includes several European and African countries. As a research associate of Professor Gerd Albers (one of the co-founders of the Society) in the late 1960s, he has known ISOCARP from its beginnings.
Workshop Rapporteurs:
WS 1: Bijendra K. Jain, India
WS 2: Peter Ross, United Kingdom
WS 3: Garry Smith, Australia
WS 4: Tang Zilai, China
WS 5: Isabel Viana, Uruguay
WS 6: Ineke Hulshof, Netherlands
Workshop Chairpersons:
WS 1: Hari Srinivas, India/Japan
WS 2: Gildo Seisdedos, Spain
WS 3: Shi Nan, China
WS 4: Ng Waikeen, Singapore/Ireland
WS 5: Ruan Yisan, China
WS 6: Mairura Omwenga, Kenya
Young Planning Professionals Workshop (s)
- Wang Kai, Director, Working Committee of Youth, UPSC, China
- Zeynep Enlil, Vice President, ISOCARP, Turkey
- Elien Wierenga, Coordinator, Dutch Ministry VROM, Netherlands
Scientific Committee
- Pablo Vaggione, Secretary General ISOCARP (Chair), Spain
- Jim Reilly, USA
- Peter Robinson, South Africa
- Bernd Scholl, Switzerland
- Marcella Villa Luna, Peru
- Wang Rusong, China
- Jeanne Wolfe, Canada
Co-opted Scientific Committee Members, 2008 Congress
- Zhou Yixing (Beijing University)
- Zhang Jie (Tsinghua University)
Local Organising Committee
Presidents
- Qiu, Baoxing (President)
- Xia, Deren (President)
Steering Committee
- Chen, Weibang (Deputy President, UPSC)
- Fang, Qingfang (Deputy President, UPSC, Vice Director of Guangdong Provincial Construction Committee)
- He, Xinghua (Director, External Affairs Dept. MOC)
- Li, Xiaojiang (Deputy President, UPSC, President, CAUPD)
- Tang, Kai (Director, Planning Department, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction)
- Wang, Jingxia (Deputy President, UPSC, Youth)
- Wang, Rusong (President, Ecological Society of China)
- Wu, Liangyong (Professor at Tsinghua Univ. Honorable President UPSC)
- Wu, Zhiqiang (Deputy President, UPSC, Professor at Tongji University)
- Yin, Zhi, Deputy President, UPSC, Prof. of Tsinghua Univ
- Zhang, Quan (Deputy President, UPSC, Vice Director of Jiangsu
Provincial Construction Committee) - Zhou, Ganshi (President, UPSC)
- Zhou, Yixing (Deputy President, UPSC, Professor at Peking University)
- Zhu, Jiaguang (Deputy President, UPSC)
- Zou, Deci (Executive Vice President, UPSC)
Executive Committee
- Shi, Nan (Chair, Secretary General, UPSC)
- Kong, Yuhang (Dean of Architecture, DUT)
- Geng, Hongbing (Vice Secretary General. UPSC)
- Li, Xun (Secretary General of Chinese Society for Urban Studies)
- Wang, Jun (Director of the Dalian Urban Planning Bureau)
About the Urban Planning Society of China
The Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC), voluntarily incorporated by urban planners across the country in 1956, is the only legally registered academic and professional organisation at state level. UPSC is devoted to organizing international and national academic activities involving urban planning issues, promoting planning knowledge and technologies, providing consulting service to governmental agencies at all levels, publishing planning books, academic papers and other publications, protecting the lawful rights of urban planners, conducting professional development, granting honour and award to distinguished individuals or organisations.
UPSC has four working committees, i.e. organisational, youth, publishing and academic, and eleven academic committees, i.e. regional planning and urban economy, residential area planning, planning and design of landscape and environment, planning and design of historic and cultural cities, application of new techniques, small town planning, overseas urban planning, engineering planning, urban design, city ecological planning and construction, urban safety and disaster prevention planning. The Society’s administrative function stays at the Secretariat with three subordinate offices, i.e. Editorial Department, Consulting Department and Liaison Office.
| President | Zhou,Ganshi |
| Honorable President | Wu, Liangyong |
| Executive Vice President | Zou, Deci |
| Vice Presidents | Wang, Jingxia |
| Zhou, Yixing | |
| Li, Xiaojiang | |
| Wu, Zhiqiang | |
| Yin, Zhi | |
| Zhang, Quan | |
| Fang, Qingfang | |
| Zhu, Jiaguang | |
| Chen, Weibang | |
| Secretary General | Shi, Nan |
| Vice Secretary General | Geng, Hongbing |
Congress Venue
Dalian Shangri-La Hotel
66, Renmin Road, Dalian 116001, China
About Dalian
Dalian is located on the east coast of Eurasia and the southern tip of Liaodong peninsular in northeast China. It is situated between the Yellow Sea (to the East), the Bohai Sea (to the West), the Shandong Peninsular (to the South) and the vast Northeast Plain (to the North). Dalian is located in the centre of the Northeast Asia Economic Circle and it is the marine gateway of northeast China, North China, East China and the whole world. It also is an important port, and a trade, industry and tourism city.
Dalian is surrounded on three sides by the sea and filled with open spaces and green parkland. It is picturesque and has suitable weather that can be considered as clean and vibrant. It arguably is one of the most beautiful cities in China. In the summer, Dalian is one of the most popular cities in China for tourists from China and overseas. It has the honour of being the “north pearl” and belonging to the “top 500 fine circumstance cities in the world”. Dalian is a young city but has grown rapidly over the last century, with the help of German Planners. It has been very successful in attracting investment from China and overseas. Today Dalian is one of the most important port cities in China and its port industry plays a very important role for the economic development in Northern China.
In February 2007, together with two other cities, Dalian was elected to be the “China’s Best Tourist City” by the National Tourism Administration and the United Nations World Tourism Organisation. In September 2007, Dalian hosted “World Economic Forum on Growth, the Annual Meeting of Global Growth Companies (Summer Davos). Dalian has become a renowned city of international influence in the world.
Registration and Fees
Congress registration fees
Invitation to any of the congress sessions or any other contribution to the congress, except keynote lectures, does not waive the payment of the congress registration fee. This includes also invited authors. ISOCARP does not reimburse travel and/or accommodation expenses, or any other expenses related to this invitation.
Reduced Fees
Registrations with Full Payment until 30 June 2008 benefit from a reduction in the congress fees.
ISOCARP members benefit from a special membership reduction.
Invited non-member authors of selected papers also benefit from a special reduction.
Congress participation fees include:
- Entrance to all days of Congress Sessions.
- Dalian Urban Planning Presentation, Social Events and City Tour
- Congress lunches (Companions can purchase a lunch ticket at the entrance for the equivalent in RMB of Euro 15)
- Congress Portfolio
- The China Congress Proceedings (hand outs at Congress ’09)
Young Planning Professionals (invited):
- Same as above plus additional inclusions under ‘YPPs Workshops’.
Congress portfolio includes
- Final Programme
- Introductory Reports by the Congress Team and full papers by invited authors (CD ROM Box)
- ISOCARP REVIEW04 (2008), a thematic publication complementing the research efforts for each ISOCARP Congress.
- Special Bulletin 2008: ‘Planning in China’
REGISTRATION FEES
CONGRESS REGISTRATION
All congress days (19 to 23 Sept 2008)
| Registration Types | Early* | Late |
| * Early = International Registration with full payment | Until 30 June 2008 | Per 1 July 2008 |
| NATIONAL PARTICIPATION (Residents of China) | RMB per person | RMB per person |
| ISOCARP members & Non-Members | ||
| – Chinese Delegates living outside China fall under category International Participation | 3000 | 3000 |
| INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION (non China residents) | EURO | EURO |
| DV = Developing Countries Residents | per person | per person |
| ISOCARP Members | 375 | Surplus 80 |
| Non-Members | 495 | Surplus 80 |
| Non-Members Invited Authors (1) | 455 | Surplus 80 |
| All Participation types (2) (32 years max.) | 225 | Surplus 80 |
| All Participation types (3), DV countries | 225 | Surplus 80 |
| Young Planning Professionals (on invitation, only) Including YPPs Workshop & Congress, all countries | 225 | |
| Delegates’ Partners (4) (no business partners or planner colleagues) | 120 |
Congress Applicant ISOCARP Membership
All non-member congress fees ≥ Euro 455 include a so-called ‘Congress Applicant ISOCARP Membership’ for a trial period of 10 months starting immediately after this congress. Benefits of Congress Applicant Membership are equal to full membership with the following exceptions: (1) No access to the ‘Members Area’ website (2) Not eligible to ISOCARP Projects (3) No right to reduced ISOCARP members’ future congress registration fees, except when full membership has been acquired. Full membership can be required by application in 2009 and can start immediately after endorsement at the ISOCARP General Assembly in September 2009 provided that the membership dues 2010 are paid between 1 August and 1 Sept 2009 at the latest.
Other INTERNATIONAL Registrations
| Single day(s) participation | Euro 160 per day | |
| (other than the 4 days package above) | ||
| Group members or non members (same country or same organisation/institute/university/employer, minimum 10 persons) | Per delegate: Individual fee as above, with Euro 750 total Group Discount (5) | |
| Social Events | ||
| 19 Sept 2008, afternoon – City Tour* | ||
| 19 Sept 2008, evening – Welcome Reception (banquet)* | ||
| 23 Sept 2008, evening – Farewell Banquet * |
* Offered by the Dalian Municipality. Congress Delegates and Delegates’ partners have to register with respect to logistics and catering provision.
(1) Definition ‘Invited Authors’: Authors having complied with the criteria as stipulated in the Call for Papers and being invited by the ISOCARP General Rapporteur to prepare their full paper for one of the Workshop presentations and having complied with the ISOCARP paper editing formats and criteria.
(2) With copy of student card and/or passport.
(3) A discount for invited authors as described under (1) is not applicable in this category
(4) Delegates’ Partners (no business partners or planner colleagues). Inclusions: congress badge, city tour + welcome reception/farewell dinner + entrance to the congress opening- and closing session
(5) Group: provided all persons belonging to one group register at the same time with one total payment.
Definition Developing Countries (Category DV)
Congress Participants (members/non-members/invited authors) with nationalities and residing in their home country according to the listing below qualify for reduced congress registration fees under this category (based upon Geographical World Bank Indicators)
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan,Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo Rep., Congo Dem Rep., Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire Rep, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji; Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Islamic Rep., Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea, Dem. Rep., Kyrgyz Republic; Latvia, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, FYR, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mavotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Fed. Sts., Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar,Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovak Republic, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, St Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela RB., Vietnam, West Bank & Gaza, Yemen Rep., Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Cancellation Policy
- Notification of cancellation of registration must be sent in writing to the ISOCARP Secretariat (e-mail/fax)
- Cancellations received up to and including 30-06-08: 100% refund (transfer/ handling costs Euro 80)
- Cancellations received from 01/07–15/08/08: 70% refund (transfer and handling costs included)
- Cancellation received as per 16/08/08 and no show: no refunds.
- Possible refunds will be processed after the event.
Strategic Partners
City of Dalian (Host City)
Chinese Society for Urban Studies
China Academy of Urban Planning and Design
Ecological Society of China
Dutch Ministry of Planning, Housing and the Environment, VROM (Netherlands)
European Council of Spatial Planners, ECTP (United Kingdom)
Fundacion Metropoli (Spain)
