The organizing committee of the ENHR Conference ‘Sustainable Urban Areas’ cordially invites proposals for individual papers. The ENHR Conference will be organised in Rotterdam from 25 till 28 June 2007 by Delft University of Technology. The theme is Sustainable Urban Areas. The conference will highlight the many aspects of housing and urban issues in relation to sustainability. Sustainability is a broad concept that can be addressed from many different angles. Attention to all approaches and their interrelationships is the key to a sustainable society. A common arrangement is to distinguish social, economic, spatial and environmental qualities relating to sustainability. In the conference these will all come to the fore. Plenary sessions with appealing keynote speakers will address current debates in housing like the future role of social housing and the pros and cons of the demolition of housing estates. In addition to these purely housing related topics, items related to sustainability will also be discussed like transformation processes within the city and at the regional level. Plenary sessions will be organised around two keynote speakers concluding with a debate.

Paper sessions will allow participants to present their research in the urban and housing domain. Most of these sessions will be organised by the regular ENHR working groups, but a number of additional paper tracks will cluster the urban issues not covered by the existing working groups. Additional themes are the sustainable city (innercity development, city transformation), the sustainable environment/region (the metropolitan landscape) and tools to facilitate housing and urban processes (GIS, cadastres, planning games). A description of the additional themes and a list of the regular ENHR
working groups are available on the conference website: www.enhr2007rotterdam.nl

The congress location is the Doelen, a concert and congress building situated in the cultural and professional heart of Rotterdam and only a stone’s throw from Central Station and the shopping district. Rotterdam is an interesting city from an architectural, housing and urban point of view and hosts important architecture and housing institutes. 2007 has been declared the Year of Architecture by the city.

A number of social events will be organised, taking advantage of the specific features of the city of Rotterdam along the water. A welcome reception and two dinners will offer participants the opportunity to meet with other participants in a relaxed environment. A general tour of Rotterdam and several interesting field trips will give insight into the housing and urban practice of the region of Rotterdam.

Preliminary timetable
October 2006: Call for papers
December 2006: Online registration and submission of abstracts is possible
01 February 2007: Deadline for submission of abstracts
01 May 2007: Deadline for submission of full papers