400 planners and social scientists met at the Vienna University of Technology from 7 to 10 July 2004. The focus of IAPS 18 was the upcoming “Reconstruction East” in the course of EU enlargement, which is not only to be seen as an economic-organisational achievement, but also requires social compatibility and evaluation of the planning consequences.
IAPS, the International Association of People-Environment Studies, has been promoting the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between planning and social sciences, i.e. above all between spatial planning, architecture, psychology and sociology, since 1969. Thematic blocks of the 18th IAPS conference in 2004 included participation, tourism, environmental protection, health, safety, special user groups, gender, creative environments and environmental simulation.
The CD-Rom contains descriptions of all 382 contributions (in symposia, paper sessions, workshops and poster sessions) of the important Vienna conference event. In addition, about 2,400 abstracts of all past IAPS conferences from 1969-2002 are included and accessible by full text search – a unique database for interdisciplinary enthusiasts.
Subject contributions see: https://iaps-association.org/biannual-conference/