Conference themes: - Regional and urban development theory revisited - City and regiona governance for a post-crisis age - Growing apart? The increase in social and spatial inequality - Evidence-based urban and regional policies - Smart cities, smart regions? - Financing city and regional...

We welcome all submissions with a regional focus and especially those in the following areas: Urban and regional polic; New challenges in urban planning; New economic geography; Big data and regions; Climate change and sustainability; Politics and territory; Mega-regions and City regions;...

This conference will focus on applications using big data or big data tools in any field or on research focusing on interesting economic questions that arise from considering the rapid changes in data availability, computational technology, software, and econometric methods.