The city and the networks
IV AISU Congress
Milan, 19-20-21 February 2009

A call for papers has been organized for upcoming congress of AISU Association that will take place in Milan on February 2009. The deadline for submitting all the papers is 23rd March 2008.
The topic of this Congress will be the city and the networks, both real and virtual: water and mobility networks, environmental and energy networks, knowledge and exchange networks, water networks, reception and solidarity networks. Considering realized, planned or only desired system, the study of urban networks needs a comprehensive view able to set in a wide context regarding historical and territorial aspects. The result of this approach will be the final setting of every single case, correctly drawn and analyzed, as a part of a more complex system: the goal will be more to define some interrelations than to study the single episodes, even interesting and significant. The aim of a network consists in a continuous interaction between all the consisting knots and segments. A fundamental importance is the relation between the single fragments and the totality; another aspect of interest will be, in particular cases, the connection with a possible referring model. In his potential huge extension, the topic needs to be restricted to a possible time and space limit. Also in this case, the chosen argument for the IV Congress is defined at the border between different specialized aspects: in this way it will be analyzed and compared with different methodological and chronological approaches. In the topic development will be involved different subjects and branches of learning: it will be the occasion to promote an exchange at the base for a wide reflection, main aspect of the multidisciplinarity of our Association. The topic of the networks will be articulated and organized in eight different sessions:

1. Mobility networks. Coordinated by: Salvatore Adorno (University of Catania, salvoado@tin.it) and Aldo Castellano (Politecnico di Milano, aldo.castellano@polimi.it)
2. Water Networks. Coordinated by: Andrea Giuntini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, giuntini.andrea@unimore.it) and Francesca Martorano (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, fmartorano@unirc.it)
3. Environmental Networks.Coordinated by: Simone Neri Serneri (University of Siena, neriserneri@unisi.it) and Rosa Tamborrino (Politecnico di Torino, r.tamborrino@fastwebnet)
4. Energy Networks. Coordinated by: Roberta Morelli (University of Roma Torvergata; morelli@lettere.uniroma2.it) and Massimiliano Savorra (University of Molise, maxmatti@hotmail.com)
5. Exchange Networks. Coordinated by: Paola Lanaro (University Ca’ Foscari of Venezia,lanaro@unive.it) and Elena Svalduz (University of Padova, esvalduz@yahoo.it)
6. Knowledge Networks.Coordinated by: Luca Mocarelli (University of Milano Bicocca, luca.mocarelli@unimib.it)and Alessandro De Magistris (Politecnico di Milano, alessandro.demagistris@polimi.it)
7. Reception Networks Coordinated by: Heleni Porfyriou (CNR Roma, helpor1@yahoo.it) and Carlo Travaglini (University Roma Tre, c.travaglini@uniroma3.it)
8. Solidarity Networks Coordinated by: Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur (University of Roma Tre), Marco Folin (University of Genova, mafolin@libero.it) and Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne).
8. Administration Networks Coordinated by: Giovanni Favero (University Ca' Foscari di Venezia), Guido Zucconi (University IUAV di Venezia, zucconi@iuav.it).

All the guidelines for every session are specified in the part of this site named Sessions.
All the eight thematic fields will we organized in a main session that regards the main topic and in a series of other sessions directly connected; other session could be organized but always connected with the same main topic. A final discussion will take place at the conclusion of the Congress involving all the participants to the different sessions.

Different proposal cold be presented, but concerning one of the different thematic sessions:

a) a speech: in this case the proposal has to be presented with a title, a written presentation (max 1.000 characters) and the thematic session.
b) a session: in this case the proposal will contain a title, the referring thematic field, the presentation of the participants (max 3-4 persons), their contribution to the session (speech title for every participant) and a short written presentation (max 1.000 characters) of each participant.
c) a poster organized with text and images: in this case has to be presented a title, a short text and the referring thematic field; all the specification of the final layout will be afterwards indicated.

All the proposal has to be submitted, before the deadline of the 23rd March 2008, at the following mail (info@aisu2009.org or aisu@storiaurbana.it) and mail of one of the two coordinators of the chosen session; starting from April 2008 all the proponents will receive a reply and before the end of July 2008 a quite definitive program will be available. The deadline for sending the final abstract or the complete text of speech is stated for 31st December 2008.
All the documents referring the sessions, the speeches and the posters will be available, in the AISU internet site, in January 2009. Some of them, in case of a specific publishing project connected to this Congress, will be published in a monographic number of the magazine “Citta e Storia”.
The official language of the Congress will be Italian; the text in French, English and Spanish language will be accepted

All the participants has to pay the registration respecting the deadline date that will be indicated in the home page of the site. The amount is 80 € for non AISU members, 40€ for AISU members (in order with the annual dues). In this amount is included all the material distributed during the Congress, all the pre-print, the lunches organized during the Congress and the gala dinner. Delays in the payments will cause a rise of the registration due of 10€.

Some scholarships, devoted to young researchers who will participate with a speech to the sessions, will be available for covering the registration and accommodation costs; all the requests has to be presented with a detailed written document to the Organizing Committee.

This call for papers, with all the details of the different sessions, is published in this web site web site.

Any further information can be requested at the mail address: info@aisu2009.org or aisu@storiaurbana.it