First Homes-uP International Conference on "Single-Family Homes Under Pressure?"

The conference will bring together international researchers from different disciplines who work on single-family housing. Objective is to scrutinize the effects of demographic, sociocultural and structural change on the utilization of single-family housing in industrialized countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. We understand single-family homes as a generic term for free standing or serial buildings containing one dwelling, including detached, semi-detached and terraced (row) houses.

We welcome contributions from architects, economists, geographers, social scientists, urban and regional planners on:

• Single-family home building stock characteristics and dynamics of spatial development
• Land use, material flow analysis, ecological aspects
• Emergence of new user groups and user preferences
• Market mechanisms, pricing, vacancies and their resource-related implications
• Housing policies and single-family homes
• Distressed single-family homes: identification and counteractive measures

This conference is part of the research project Homes-uP, funded by the Leibniz Association.