Enhr

Peter Boelhouwer, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands - the Chair

Stanisław Belniak, Cracow University of Economics, Poland

Marek Bryx, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland 

Maciej Cesarski, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

Andreja Cirman, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 

Aleksandra Jadach-Sepioło, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Poland

Sylwia Kaczmarek, University of Lodz, Poland  

Ewa Kucharska-Stasiak, University of Lodz, Poland 

Martin Lux, the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Sandra Marques Pereira, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Jaana Nevalainen, Ministry of Environment, Finland

Aleksandra Nowakowska, University of Lodz, Poland

Montserrat Pareja Eastaway, University of Barcelona, Spain

Ewa Siemińska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

Ivan Tosic, Metropolitan Research Institute, Hungary

Catalina Turcu, University College London, UK

Radosław Wiśniewski, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

Magdalena Załęczna ENHR 2023 Conference Chair, Department of Inestment and Real Estate, University of Łódź

Mariusz Sokołowicz Vice Dean of Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź

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Agata Antczak-Stępniak Department of Inestment and Real Estate, University of Łódź

Joanna Gwarda-Żurańska Department of Promotion of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź

Elżbieta Hryniewicz Institute of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning, University of Łódź

Marzena Krawczyk Department of Promotion of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź

Katarzyna Olbińska Department of Inestment and Real Estate, University of Łódź

Agnieszka Stachowicz Department of Promotion of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź

Beata Wieteska-Rosiak Department of Inestment and Real Estate, University of Łódź

Konrad Żelazowski Department of Inestment and Real Estate, University of Łódź

ENHR 2023 Lodz conference

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

27 June, Tuesday

16.00 – 19.15 urban safari (The urban safari starts in front of the main gate to the conference venue, i.e., the campus of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz, located at ulica Rewolucji 1905 roku no. 39. It ends in the same location)
19.15 – 21.00 opening reception (drinks and finger-food) the campus of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz, located at ulica Rewolucji 1905 roku no. 39, building E

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WORKSHOPS: Programme according to the WG/ Programme according to the workshops

28 June Wednesday

8.30 – 14.00 Registration
9.00 – 9.30 Opening of the Conference
 

09.30 – 11.00 - Opening plenary 1 The main challenges of the housing market in Poland and in Lodz

Keynote speakers: Poland, Prof. Magdalena Zaleczna, University of Lodz; Aleksandra Trzcinska, City Hall Lodz; Prof. Marek Bryx, Warsaw School of Economics,Poland, Professor Zuzanna Rataj, Ph.D.

• Professor Marek Bryx, Ph.D. is a Head of the Department of the Innovative City (formerly: Real Estate and Investment) at the Warsaw School of Economics. Author of more than 200 articles, chapters and books; more than 30 reports, and more than 400 conference speeches, popularization publications, commentaries, interviews.Key books: Housing Finance (2001), Real Estate Market - the System and its Functioning (2006 and 2008), Green Urban Regeneration Projects (lead author) 2015, Affordable Housing in a Sustainable City (2021).Former: Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Infrastructure, President of the Office of Housing and Urban Development, Dean and Pro Rector of the Warsaw School of Economics, Director of UN-Habitat Office in Warsaw.

• Professor Zuzanna Rataj, Ph.D., is a sociologist, social worker, social politician, and economist, currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Business Ethics at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. She specializes in housing studies concerning housing policy and affordable housing.

11.30 – 13.00 - Plenary 2 on Urban regeneration and gentrification

Keynote speakers: Prof. Ludek Sykora, Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic, Prof. Paul Watt, Birkbeck, University of London, Great Britain, Prof. Aysegul Can, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey, moderator Jakub Zasina, Ph.D., University of Lodz

• Professor Aysegul Can, Ph.D., is an urbanist and scholar from Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield (UK) and a master’s degree from Istanbul Technical University. Currently she works as a lecturer at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Istanbul Medeniyet University. Her choice of Ph.D. topic was motivated by concern for the poor, mainly minority-ethnic, residents of the historic neighbourhoods in Istanbul, particularly those subjected to state-led gentrification.

• Luděk Sýkora is Professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic. His research and teaching focuses on urban change in post-socialist cities, impacts of globalization on urban transformations, processes of metropolitan change such as suburbanization, neighborhood change such as gentrification, processes and localities of segregation, inter-cultural interaction in immigrant neighborhoods, metropolitan development, urban and housing policies. In his applied research and consultancy he has worked for the European Commission, national government ministries and agencies, local governments, business sector and NGOs.

• Professor Paul Watt is Professor of Urban Studies in the Department of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, as well as Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK. Paul has published widely on social housing, urban regeneration, gentrification, homelessness, housing activism, suburbanisation, and on the 2012 London Olympic Games. Paul's most recent book is Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London (Policy Press, 2021). He is also co-editor with Peer Smets of Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective (Emerald, 2017), and co-editor with Phil Cohen of London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City: A Hollow Legacy? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Paul is an Editorial Board member of City.

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.00 WS1 Programme according to the WG/ Programme according to the workshops

16.30 – 18.00 WS2  Programme according to the WG/ Programme according to the workshops

18.00 – 19.15 Slide competition

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29 June Thursday

9.00 – 12.00 Registration

9.30 – 11.00 Plenary 3 Urban Regeneration and sustainability, energy efficiency

Keynote speakers:  Prof. Catalina Turcu, University College London, Great Britain, Prof. Jesper Ole Jensen, University of Aalborg, Denmark, moderator Nessa Winston, Ph.D. University College Dublin

• Catalina Turcu is a Professor of Sustainable Built Environment at the Bartlett School of Planning, Academic Director of UCL’s Stockholm City Partnership (Climate Change and Health in the City) and Founder of UCL SDG Research Accelerator. Catalina’s work contributes to the understanding and measurement of urban sustainability at the local or community level. Theoretically, her research adds the political dimension to the traditional three-pillar (economic, social, environmental) understanding of sustainability. Empirically, her research examines sustainable urban transformations at the local level by integrating social, political and material aspects of the built environment. She is a regular adviser to governments and international organisations, including the World Bank, OECD, UN and WHO.

• Professor Jesper Ole Jensen is a senior researcher, PhD, at BUILD, Aalborg University. His research focus is urban regeneration, housing market development, and planning for sustainable cities. He has worked several years with research in urban regeneration, including subjects as public-private relations in urban regeneration, co-investments, civic voluntarism, sustainability, and involvement of private enterprises in urban regeneration programs. He has participated in several evaluations of Danish programs for urban renewal.

11.00 – 11.30 coffee break

11.30 – 13.00 WS3  Programme according to the WG/ Programme according to the workshops

13.00 – 14.30 lunch

16.00 – 18.00 Field trips

19.30 –22.00  final dinner in Museum of Textiles 

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30 June Friday

09.30 – 11.00 WS 4  Programme according to the WG/ Programme according to the workshops

11.30 – 13.00 - Plenary 4 Multi-level governance and partnership for urban regeneration

Keynote speakers: Bob Jordan, the Housing Agency, Ireland, Katarzyna Przybylska, Habitat for Humanity Poland, Władysław Grochowski, Piotr Grochowski, Arche SA, moderator Ivan Tosic, Metropolitan Research Institute

• Bob Jordan was appointed Chief Executive of The Housing Agency – Ireland in September 2021. The Housing Agency is a government body that promotes the supply of housing and helps deliver sustainable communities throughout Ireland. From 2018- 2021 he was the National Director of the Irish Government's Housing First programme, which provides permanent homes and wraparound supports to people who have experienced rough sleeping and long-term homelessness. Prior to his role in Housing First, Mr. Jordan was Chief Executive of the national housing charity Threshold for nearly a decade. He was Special Adviser to the Minister for Housing during 2016-2017. Bob Jordan was a coordinator of the ENHR Working Group on Private Rented Markets from 2008 - 2016.

• Katarzyna Przybylska, Head of Advocacy, Habitat for Humanity Poland is a specialist in developing and promoting effective legal regulations that improve the quality and accessibility of housing solutions. Advocate for decent places to live acting on behalf of citizens and entire social groups affected by housing problems. She is a specialist in the development and promotion of effective legislation to improve the quality and accessibility of housing solutions. She has been engaged in development of legal regulation on social rental agencies or strategy for deinstitutionalization of social services on the social side. She encourages decision-makers to take action to ensure the most effective provision of broad access to decent housing. Member of the Committee of Experts on Preventing Homelessness appointed by the Polish Ombudsman.

13.00 – 14.30 lunch

14.30 – 16.00 WS 5  Programme according to the WG/ Programme according to the workshops

16.00 – 17.00 General assembly

23 January 2023 - call for abstracts 

31 March 2023 - deadline for abstracts 

10 April 2023 - decision about acceptance 

25 April 2023 - closing early bird registration 

10 June 2023 - deadline for full papers  

 

Annual ENHR conferences are organized according to a fixed scheme. In addition to panels gathering all participants, parallel sessions (workshops) are arranged. During workshops, accepted papers are presented. The issues of individual workshops result from the Working Groups organized within the ENHR. ENHR members and other participants decide during registration to which WG they submit their papers (abstracts). The WG list and detailed descriptions are available at the link Working Groups – ENHR.

Regulations: https://tiny.pl/wpzvb 

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Faculty of Economics and Sociology
University of Lodz

ul. P.O.W. 3/5
90-255 Łódź

e-mail: enhr@uni.lodz.pl

Magdalena Załęczna ENHR 2023 Conference Chair - magdalena.zaleczna@eksoc.uni.lodz.pl

 

Lodz airport is served by two low-cost airlines Ryanair and Wizz, direct flights are from London Stansted and Luton, Dublin, Brussels, Alicante, Milan Bergamo

Port Lotniczy w Łodzi im. Władysława Reymonta - Port Lotniczy Łódź (lodz-airport.pl)

Regular airlines land in Warsaw at Okęcie; there is a direct bus from the airport to Łódź

www.flixbus.pl

or you can travel by train: https://www.pkp.pl/en/

The conference venue is less than a kilometer from the Łódź Fabryczna railway and bus station. In taxis, it is possible to pay by card, but it is best to tell the driver about it when getting in. In trams and buses, you can buy a ticket in a machine and pay with a payment card.

There is a wide range of accommodation in Lodz, basically for every budget.

• Hotel Puro: https://purohotel.pl/en/lodz/
• Hotel Tobacco: https://hoteltobaco.pl/en/
• Boutique Hotel’s II reservation

promised to give some discounts for code: konferencja ENHR