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Student scientific conference on economics on a city or regional scale

9th November 2026 | Prague University of Economics and Business
nám. W. Churchilla 1938/4 130 67 Praha 3 – Žižkov

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We would like to invite you to the 11th edition of the student scientific conference on economy on the scale of a city or region.

We open a topic that is seldom discussed in the context of spatial planning in central Europe. We would like to explore the connection between urban and regional planning and the economics. Since 2016 we invite every year academics from various universities and professionals in this field and moderate a discussion in an open forum with PhD students.

The conference combines presentations of PhD students´ work with conference papers of invited experts, allowing for a scholarly and scientific debate and engagement to occur. To this end, the organizers invite professionals that work outside of the academic sphere: municipal representatives, especially those in departments responsible for the budgets of towns and regions; representatives of banks involved in financing public construction projects; or experienced managers of private sector interested in co-operation between public and private sector.

Ph.D. students

Lena Monasse

Lena Monasse

ESPI, Paris

Maciej Jagódka

Maciej Jagódka

University of Economics in Krakow

Roman Bohumínský

Roman Bohumínský

MBARE VŠE

Denis Smižanský

Denis Smižanský

MBARE VŠE

Vojtěch Krajíc

Vojtěch Krajíc

MBARE VŠE

Markéta Rydvalová

Markéta Rydvalová

FA CTU Prague

Anjeza Llubani

Anjeza Llubani

TU Graz

Vilém Honysz

Vilém Honysz

Comenius University Bratislava

Guests

Laurent Viel

Laurent Viel

Rennes

Susan Günter

Susan Günter

City Planning Department of Nürnberg

Barbora Raková

Barbora Raková

State Investment Promotion Fund (SFPI)

Milan Husár

Milan Husár

Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava

Programme

9 November 2026

The conference is supported by ČVUT SVK 46/26/F5.

12:00–12:15

Opening

12:15–14:30

Ph.D. students

Building Collapses in France: Externality Effects and Urban Management Practices

Lena MonnaseESPI Paris, University of Paris-Est Créteil

Digital Skills, Brain Drain and the Geography of Discontent – New Challenges for Cities and Regions in the Visegrad Countries

Maciej JagódkaKrakow University of Economics

Beyond Contractual Public-Private Partnership: A Comparative Typology of Affordable Housing Partnerships in Europe

David MazáčekPrague University of Economics and Business, Faculty of Finance and Accounting

NEXUS Pankrác – Transformation of the Czech Post Site

Roman Bohumínský, Denis Smižanský, Vojtěch KrajícMBARE, Prague University of Economics and Business

Cost Intensity and Effectiveness of Urban Units in Czech Towns

Markéta RydvalováFA CTU Prague

Who Owns the Space Between? Everyday Perception and Spatial Transformation in Post-Socialist Tirana

Anjeza LlubaniTU Graz

Streets, Malls and E-commerce: Economic Exposure of Ground-floor Businesses and the Role of Spatial Planning in Bratislava and Vienna

Vilém HonyszComenius University Bratislava

Twin City Future Innovation Manufacturing Hub

Milan HusárSpectra Centre of Excellence, Comenius University Bratislava

15:00–16:30

Guests

Managing Urban Regeneration in Partnership with the Private Sector: The Case of Rennes

Laurent VielRennes

Managing the Planning Process: From Vision to Implementation

Susan GünterNuremberg

Connect the Dots

Barbora RakováSFPI

16:30–17:30

Expert panel

Laurent Viel Rennes

Susan Günter Nuremberg

Barbora Raková SFPI

Jan Krtička IPR Prague

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The deadline for student registration is 6th November 2026.

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The deadline for submitting an abstract is 25th September 2026.

The organizor will cover the travel and board expenses of authors of two best abstracts.

Registration - conference participants

Previous conferencies - guests

Joris Van Wezemael, Privatdozent at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich

Joris Van Wezemael

Privatdozent at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich

Maxime Charreire, École Supérieure des Professions Immobilières – ESPI, Paris

Maxime Charreire

École Supérieure des Professions Immobilières – ESPI, Paris

Zdeňka Havlová, IPR Praha, Prague

Zdeňka Havlová

IPR Praha, Prague

Jan Krtička, IPR Praha, Prague

Jan Krtička

IPR Praha, Prague

Stefano Wagner, Studi Associati SA, Lugano

Stefano Wagner

Studi Associati SA, Lugano

Nikos Karadimitriou, The Bartlett School of Planning, London

Nikos Karadimitriou

The Bartlett School of Planning, London

Ondřej Beneš, Member of the Board and Chief Commercial Strategy Officer at Trigema a.s., Prague

Ondřej Beneš

Member of the Board and Chief Commercial Strategy Officer at Trigema a.s., Prague

František Kubeš, head of the Department of Strategical Development and Cooperation, City of Brno

František Kubeš

head of the Department of Strategical Development and Cooperation, City of Brno

Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor, University, Bucharest

Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor

University, Bucharest

Lucie Pára

Lucie Pára

IPR Praha

Previous conferencies - proceedings

Previous conferencies - stream

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Scientific committee

  • Prof. Ing. Renáta Schneiderová Heralová, Ph.D., Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU Prague
  • Dr. Nikos Karadimitriou, The Bartlett School of Planning, London
  • Prof. Ing. arch. Karel Maier, CSc., Faculty of Environmental Sciences, CULS Prague
  • Bjorn Mattsson, Skanska Residential Development Europe, Prague
  • Ing. arch. Vít Řezáč, Faculty of Architecture CTU Prague
  • Doc. Ing. Petr Toth, Ph.D., Faculty of Economics, VSE Prague
  • Doc. Ing. arch. Jakub Vorel, Ph.D., Faculty of Architecture CTU Prague
  • Stefano Wagner, SASA, Lugano

Conference partners

ISTI VŠE PENTA REAL ESTATE Trigema Asociace pro urbanismus a územní plánování ČR, z.s. CAMP ARTN MBARE – Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze IPR PRAHA

Media partners

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Participating universities

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering Prague University of Economics and Business, Faculty of Economics Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Social and Economic Studies Univerzita Palackého Olomouc The Bartlett School of Planning (UCL), London International Real Estate Business School, Universität Regensburg VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava ESPI University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu” – Bucharest Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie ETH Zurich Právnická fakulta UK
Björn Mattsson

Björn Mattsson

Residential Development Europe

Since 2018, he is the President of Skanska Residential Development Europe, which focuses on residential development in the Czech Republic and Poland. Prior to that, he was a director of Skanska Commercial Development in Norway and Finland. In the Czech Republic, he has been active since the beginning of the millennium in Skanska Property Czech Republic in the early 2000s and later headed Skanska's residential division in Prague.

He has many years of experience in commercial and residential construction in Scandinavia and Central Europe and insight into the strategy of Skanska, a multinational company operating in 11 countries in Europe and America and has around 40,000 employees.

Nikos Karadimitriou

Nikos Karadimitriou

The Bartlett School of Planning, London

Nikos is Associate Professor in Urban Development and Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning (UCL). His research interests include housing and property development, the relationship between social differentiations and the production of the built environment as well as institutional change in spatial regulation and spatial production systems, in the context of climate change. His research has been funded by JPI Urban Europe and Horizon 2020, among others. He has published several peer-reviewed journal papers and two books: Planning, Risk and Property Development: Urban Regeneration in England, France and the Netherlands (Routledge, 2013) and The State of Addis Ababa 2021: Towards a Healthier City.

Peter Gero

Peter Gero

Former senior construction manager of a.D. Svobodny and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

He lives alternately in Hamburg and Bratislava. He is a member of the supervisory board of a company of a rental housing company in Hamburg. He cooperates with the city of Prague and IPR (Institute of Planning and Development) Member of the Council of Architects in Liberec. Consultant to urban planning and architectural studios, e.g. BB + GG and BLAU from Barcelona, sits on the juries of many international competitions. He is expert guarantor of the Trenčín si Ty project, conceptual urban solutions in Hlohovec, Malacky and Member of the Board of Advisors of the Danube Fund of the Central European Foundation.

Michael Manlangit

Michael Manlangit

UCL School of Management

Michael Manlangit is a PhD candidate at the UCL Bartlett School of Planning under the supervision of Nikos Karadimitriou and Claudio De Magalhães. Michael’s PhD research focuses on the impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the strategies and business models of the UK’s largest publicly listed housebuilders. He has also undertaken research on the impact of planning policies and government intervention on housing and property development in the UK, Netherlands, Cyprus, and Hong Kong. Michael is also an Associate Professor of Financial Education at the UCL School of Management, where he teaches modules on corporate and managerial finance, investment management and capital markets, and business statistics and decision-making. Michael is also the founding Programme Director of UCL’s MBA with Peking University.

Associate Professor (Financial Education) and Programme Director (The UCL MBA with Peking University and Global Engagement) | UCL School of Management | mgmt.ucl.ac.uk

mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/people/michaelmanlangit | office: +44 (0) 203 108 6035 mobile: +44 (0)78 1617 2241

Prof. Dr. Sven Bienert

Prof. Dr. Sven Bienert

Professor at the University of Regensburg, Director at KPMG, Chairman of Real Estate Advisory Austria

Prof. Bienert has worked in a number of international companies in the real estate market, collaborating on research projects at several universities and institutions (ÖVI, RICS, TEGoVA), founded the "Austrian Real Estate Benchmarking Institute", has published in the field of valuation and project finance since 2008 he has been working mainly on "Green Buildings", LEED certification, managing several European-wide projects in the field of sustainable development and real estate valuation. He is involved in IREBS (International Real Estate Business School at the University of Regensburg).

Prof. Jan Frait

Prof. Jan Frait

Czech economist, lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, VŠB-TU Ostrava

Prof. Jan Frait is a Czech economist, member of the Czech National Bank's Bank Board from 2000 to 2006. His main areas of interest are macroeconomics, monetary theory and international finance.

Since 1990 he has been a teacher at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Economics in Ostrava. In 2002 he was appointed professor of economics.

He has worked at the Czech National Bank since 2000 and was appointed by the President of the Czech Republic to the Bank Board for a six-year term in the same year. Since 2007, he has been an adviser to the Bank Board and Deputy Director of the Economic Research Department responsible for financial stability analysis. Since October 2010, he has headed the CNB's independent Financial Stability Department.

He is a long-time editor of Finance and Credit - Czech Journal of Economics and Finance and a member of the Scientific Council of Charles University in Prague since 2006.

Karel Maier

Karel Maier

Head of the Maier Studio, Deputy Head of the Institute of Spatial Planning

Karel Maier graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague with a degree in Architecture. Since 2001 he has been a professor in the field of Urbanism and Spatial Planning. He works at the Czech Technical University in Prague and at the Czech University of Agriculture. He is a foreign member of ARL (Akademie für Raumplanung und Landesforschung Hannover) and national representative of the Czech Republic in AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning). In his research activities, he deals with the spatial implications of social and economic processes and related related management options for cities and regions. He is the author of the book The Economy and Development of Czech and editor of the book Sustainable Development of Territories. As an editor he has published under the auspices of the Czech Chamber of Architects Urbanistická čítanka, he has published texts dealing with the revitalization of housing estates, the relationship between information technology and spatial planning, etc. Recently, he has been involved in methodological works for the application of planning contracts in connection with the new Building Act.

Clare Sheils

Clare Sheils

CBRE

Clare Sheils is Managing Director of CBRE Czech Republic (global commercial real estate company) and a member of its Board of Directors for Central and Eastern Europe. Originally from the UK, she has lived and worked in the CEE region since 2008. Prior to becoming Managing Director of the Czech office, she was Head of Real Estate Valuation in the region and also Head of the Industrial Sector.

Alexandra Ivănescu

Alexandra Ivănescu

Tourist Mobility. Theoretical study.

My name is Alexandra Ivănescu and I am an urban planner and landscape designer, specializing in urban mobility. I hold a Master's degree in Urban Mobility and I am currently pursuing a PhD in Urban Planning regarding Tourist Mobility. With a diverse background in urban advisory, landscape design, and traffic analysis, I have contributed to projects at organizations such as the European Investment Bank and SwissTraffic Ag. Additionally, I have participated in various international conferences and collaborated on urban mobility projects for a few cities in Romania. I am passionate about traveling, photography, hiking, and outdoor activities.

Annotation

The research explores the dynamic relationship between tourism and urban mobility systems. It delves into how transportation networks adapt to the fluctuating demands of tourists and the impact of mobility patterns on the sustainability and development of tourist destinations. The study highlights the theoretical frameworks that shape tourist mobility planning, examining strategies for optimizing transport infrastructure to enhance the visitor experience while minimizing environmental impact. This study provides valuable insights for urban planners seeking to balance tourism growth with sustainable mobility solutions.

Răzvan-Andrei Săvan

Răzvan-Andrei Săvan

Smart City vs Smart Ecotope

My name is Răzvan-Andrei Săvan and I am an urban planner and landscape architect, currently I work together with a multidisciplinary team on the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Romania (PNRR) which is based on the idea of ​​ensuring the development of Romania, by supporting the level of adaptation to crisis situations, in the context of recovery after the COVID- 19, as well as harnessing the potential for economic development, through major reforms and key investments. I hold a Master's degree in Landscape and Territory and I am currently pursuing a PhD in Urban Planning regarding the idea of a functional Smart City. With a diverse background in urban advisory, landscape architecture, and Romanian public administration, I have contributed to urban development projects at all territorial scales together with the management of European funds for development regions of Romania. Additionally, I have participated in various international conferences and collaborated on general urban plans for a few cities in Romania. I am passionate about traveling, photography, and documenting and improving myself on different topics.

Annotation

The research explores the the interplay and parallel between the concepts of smart cities and smart ecotopes are multifaceted and intricately interconnected. Smart cities harness the power of advanced technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and data analytics, to optimize urban services and infrastructure, while smart ecotopes employ similar technological advancements to monitor, manage, and optimize ecological systems and their interactions with human activities. Both paradigms prioritize the efficient management of resources, with smart cities focusing on energy, water, and transportation, and smart ecotopes emphasizing the sustainable use of natural resources and waste minimization. Sustainability is a central tenet of both smart city initiatives and smart ecotopes, with the former promoting green technologies, renewable energy, and eco-friendly practices, and the latter inherently emphasizing the maintenance of ecosystem balance and health while accommodating human needs. Data-driven decision-making is a cornerstone of both approaches, with smart cities relying on real-time data collection and analysis to inform urban planning and management, and smart ecotopes leveraging data to understand ecological patterns, monitor environmental changes, and develop strategies for conservation and sustainable development.

Cristina-Bianca ȚOGOE

Cristina-Bianca ȚOGOE

Climate Pressures on Metropolitan Areas: Urban Planning for Water Resilience

I am an urban planner. I graduated from the Faculty of Urban Planning in 2020 with a bachelor's degree, and in 2022, I completed my master's degree. Currently, I am a third-year PhD student at the Doctoral School of Urban Planning at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning in Bucharest, Romania. My research focuses on water deficit in the context of climate change, and how urban planning can help mitigate and manage this issue. In addition to my research activities and work in the private sector, I am also a teaching assistant at Ion Mincu University, involved in various activities at both undergraduate and graduate levels

Annotation

My research paper explores how urban planning can address the growing challenges of water scarcity in cities and metropolitan areas. As climate change exacerbates water shortages, metropolitan areas must balance the economic costs of infrastructure with sustainable water management solutions. The paper examines how resilient water systems can support both environmental sustainability and economic stability, ensuring that urban growth does not come at the expense of essential water resources. It highlights the need for cities to implement water-resilient strategies that not only secure long-term water supplies but also mitigate economic risks associated with resource depletion.

Ing. Stefano Wagner

Ing. Stefano Wagner

Studi Associati SA, Lugano

Stefano Wagner (1964) is senior partner in the urban, territorial and environmental planning office Studi Associati SA in Lugano, Switzerland. He is a long-time member of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (IsoCaRP) and the Swiss Society of engineers and architects (sia), President (until 2020) of the Swiss Society for Urban Planning and Regional Policies (ROREP), President (until 2024) of the Swiss Association of Environmental Professionals (svu|asep). He has been involved in strategic urban planning, nature protection projects (e.g. National Park), major transport studies (e.g. AlpTransit) and research and teaching (Politecnico di Milano, and ETH Zürich) mainly in Switzerland, Italy, Ukraine and Germany.

Maxime Charreire, École Supérieure des Professions Immobilières – ESPI, Paris

Maxime Charreire

École Supérieure des Professions Immobilières – ESPI, Paris

Title of contribution: Market Structure and Housing Production in France

Maxime Charreire is an Associate Professor in Economics at the French Graduate School of Real Estate Professions (École Supérieure des Professions Immobilières – ESPI). He earned his PhD from the University of Nanterre Paris Ouest in 2021, with a focus on law and economics. His early research explored civil and environmental liability rules, particularly the mechanisms for allocating compensation under these frameworks.

Since joining the ESPI2R research lab in 2022, his work has focused on the efficiency of real estate brokerage markets and the competitive structure of real estate development. His recent research investigates the impact of local urban planning regulations on housing supply, the competitive nature of real estate intermediation, and the competitive dynamics between housing developers.

Annotation

This paper examines how the competitive structure of the real estate development market influences housing production and its spatial distribution. Using a monocentric city model, we show that large developers, with high fixed costs but low marginal costs, concentrate their activities in central areas with high land values, while smaller developers dominate peripheral zones. Empirical evidence from building permit data in France (2014–2022) and a case study of the Lyon metropolitan area confirm this spatial specialization. The analysis also identifies differentiated price thresholds for market entry, highlighting an increasing segmentation between leading and secondary actors. These results underscore the importance of linking urban planning policies with market structure analysis to foster balanced housing development.

Zdeňka Havlová, IPR Praha, Prague

Zdeňka Havlová

IPR Praha, Prague

Title of contribution: Data and analyses for IPR Prague

Zdeňka Havlová is the head of the City Analysis Office at the Institute of Planning and Development of the City of Prague, where she mainly deals with professional city analyses and the preparation and processing of the Territorial Analytical Materials of the City of Prague (UAP) and the online UAP Portal (uap.iprpraha.cz).

Annotation

The accessibility and availability of public amenities play a fundamental role in shaping the quality of life of urban populations. This raises two essential questions: how can accessibility be effectively assessed, and how can cities be planned in ways that enhance it? The Prague Institute of Planning and Development systematically monitors key categories of public amenities and conducts annual evaluations of their spatial accessibility and capacity availability for the city’s residents. Beyond this monitoring role, the Institute also contributes to the planning of new urban districts, where the provision of adequate capacities and appropriate locations of public amenities constitutes a critical element in negotiations between the city and private developers. This paper shows the relationship of public amenities analysis and planning with finance allocation decision making in Prague.

František Kubeš, head of the Department of Strategical Development and Cooperation, City of Brno

František Kubeš

head of the Department of Strategical Development and Cooperation, City of Brno

František Kubeš is an expert in regional and local development, the European Union, strategic planning, integrated urban development, metropolitan cooperation and Smart Cities. He graduated from the University of Ostrava, in the field of study social geography and regional development. Since 2019, he has been working as the Head of the Department of Strategic Development and Cooperation of the Brno City Hall. From 2014 to 2019, he was in the position of Head of the Urban Policy Subdepartment at the Ministry of Regional Development, and in the last two years, he was also the Acting Director of the Regional Policy Department. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Council of the Association for Urbanism and Spatial Planning of the Czech Republic. He is also active at the European level – he co-leads the "Metropolitan Areas" working group of the Eurocities network of cities, and actively participates within the newly established European Urban Initiative (in particular, through expert work abroad).

Jan Krtička, IPR Praha, Prague

Jan Krtička

IPR Praha, Prague

Jan Krtička is an urban planner working at the Institute of Planning and Development of the City of Prague, where he heads the Office of Urban Neighborhood Development. He is an architect (Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University) and a sociologist (Faculty of Arts, Charles University). He focuses on the development of new neighborhoods, especially spatial regulation and planning of public amenities.

Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor, University, Bucharest

Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor

University, Bucharest

Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor, PhD (Ecology), PhD (Geography), Habil. (Urban planning) Professor and Director at Doctoral School of Urban Planning, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism. He is a member of Department of Architecture, Faculty of Urbanism and Architecture of the Technical University of Moldova. Alexandru-Ionuţ works as Scientific Director of the National Institute for Research and Development in Constructions, Urbanism and Sustainable Spatial Development URBAN-INCERC.

Maciej J. Nowak

Maciej J. Nowak

Spatial Planning Law in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Key Features and Comparative Challenges

Professor of the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, head of the Department of Real Estate, legal counsel, specialist in urban planning law, member of committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences, co-author of international publications comparing urban planning law in different countries.

Annotation

The presentation will outline the main features of spatial planning law in Central and Eastern European countries. In addition, a broader topic on the role of law in spatial planning will be addressed. On the one hand, the law should realize the goals of spatial planning. On the other hand, legal regulations must be neither too general (in which case they are overlooked) nor too specific (they block development). From the perspective of Central and Eastern European countries, historical and cultural considerations are a factor influencing the interpretation of the law. Attachment to the position of private property owners (and their right to develop land) is very broad. This hinders the law's effective implementation of spatial planning objectives and results in the development of uncontrolled development. Legal instruments respond to these problems only to a limited extent.

Doc. Ing. Petr Tománek, CSc.

Doc. Ing. Petr Tománek, CSc.

The Focus of the Activities of Municipalities Associations from a Budgetary Point of View

Petr Tománek works as an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics of VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, he also works externally at the Silesian University in Opava and also works as a lecturer in the education of municipal and regional officials. He teaches public finance issues and is particularly involved in the management of territorial budgets. For a long time, he focuses on researching the issue of municipal and regional management in the Czech Republic and especially on the budgetary allocation of taxes. He has participated in a number of researches projects and publishes papers at conferences. Recently, he led a TAČR project focused on the issue of the management of city districts of the statutory city of Ostrava.

Annotation

The paper is focused on the management of one of the types of territorial budgets in the Czech Republic, which are the budgets of municipalities associations. The presentation monitors the management of all municipality’s associations in the Czech Republic and points to the largest expenditures of municipalities associations. The contribution evaluates the most significant expenditures of municipalities associations, where the share of capital expenditures is also affected in individual areas, and the scope of municipalities associations in individual regions is also affected. By comparing the expenditures of municipal budgets in the Czech Republic and the budgets of municipalities associations, it is then possible to evaluate the importance of municipalities associations within the territory of the state structure. Based on the findings, the contribution formulates conclusions and discusses the importance of municipalities associations for inter-municipal cooperation and in relation to the existence of a large number of municipalities in the Czech Republic.

Ing. arch. Kateřina Kováříková

Ing. arch. Kateřina Kováříková

Smart tools for spatial and strategic development

Kateřina Kováříková is the founder of urbiq, a data studio that creates digital tools for streamlining spatial and strategic planning through interactive and data-driven tools. She is currently a recent PhD student at the Faculty of Architecture at the CTU in Prague, from which she holds a Master's degree. In her research, she is investigating the role of real-estate development in the implementation of urban strategies. Kateřina is also involved in a faculty research project for The Prague Institute of Planning and Development and she is a member of an informal advisory board of the Czech Ministry of Science and Research.

Annotation

Kateřina will present digital tools that have been developed in her professional practice and that help urban development through the use of data and interactive visualization. The tools focus on the automatic evaluation and optimization of spatial planning and real-estate development designs as well as strategic planning and its implementation support. The aim of these tools is to increase the quality, flexibility and acceleration of urban development and its ability to communicate the need for development and its rationality to the public. Katerina will also present the research questions within her PhD thesis. This research aims to explore the link between real-estate and urban strategies and to design more effective linkage that would better define the objectives of the city towards real-estate and simultaneously more clearly demonstrate the benefits of real-estate in the implementation of urban strategies.

Ing. Markéta Šimáčková, MBA

Ing. Markéta Šimáčková, MBA

Development of Sustainable Real Estate Projects

Markéta Šimáčková is a graduate of the University of Economics in Prague, where she studied MBA with a focus on commercial real estate and its valuation. Since 2024 she has been the CEO of BlackBird Real Estate, which has a portfolio of commercial and residential projects mainly in the regions. Previously, she served as Deputy CEO at Urbanity Development, focusing on building sustainable campuses in the Czech Republic, and as CEO and Managing Director of Torino-Praga Invest, a real estate group. Her experience also includes international consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.

Ing. Milan Dont, Ph.D.

Ing. Milan Dont, Ph.D.

Impacts of Transport Infrastructure Investment on Regional Development

Milan Dont studied at the Faculty of Transportation Sciences at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He earned his engineering degree in 2004 in the field of transportation engineering, focusing on traffic flow theory, traffic safety, and road design. Subsequently, while working, he continued in the doctoral study program in Technology and Transportation at the same faculty, defending his Ph.D. in 2011. In his career, he initially focused on road traffic safety, traffic surveys, and statistical analyses at the Transport Research Centre in Brno (2004–2010). From 2010, he served as the Director of the Road Transport Department at the Ministry of Transport, where he expanded his focus to include the entire issue of road operation, management, and maintenance. Since 2015, he has been working at the State Fund for Transport Infrastructure, where he has held several positions. He has primarily been involved in supporting the provision of grants for barrier-free sidewalks, cycle paths, and bridges for municipalities and cities in the Czech Republic. Currently, he holds the position of Director of the Office of the Director of SFDI, where he is responsible for cross-cutting issues of transport infrastructure financing, digitization of construction, management, and maintenance processes of transport infrastructure, cybersecurity, etc.

Annotation

The presentation focuses on the development of regions as a result of the construction of transport infrastructure. Emphasis is placed on the development of motorway infrastructure, examining its impact on regional development in connection with their integration into the newly built motorway network. Fu rther, it discusses the correlations with the development of gross domestic product, the state budget, and the budget of the State Fund for Transport Infrastructure, as well as the development of transport infrastructure construction. The final part assesses the impact of motorway construction on accident rates and the consequences of traffic accidents, and the potential savings in terms of societal losses from traffic accidents.

Joris Van Wezemael, Privatdozent at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich

Joris Van Wezemael

Privatdozent at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich

Title of contribution: Urban Transformation in the Age of Mediation

Bio

Joris is the founder of de plek, a Switzerland-based consultancy specializing in strategy, mediation, and negotiation. He is also teaches at ETH Zurich, where he established the interdisciplinary platform ETH RAUM. Van Wezemael holds a PhD in Economic Geography from the University of Zurich and title of Privatdozent (PD), authorizing independent teaching at the university level (venia legendi). Previously, he served as Associate Professor of Spatial Development and Economic Geography at the University of Fribourg and was Managing Director of a real estate investment foundation (Pensimo Management). Today, he advises cities, institutional investors, and family offices on strategic development and decision-making processes. He also serves on several boards and professional associations.

Annotation

This presentation argues that spatial and urban development has, over recent decades, transitioned from a paradigm of command-and-control, through phases of collaborative planning between public and private actors, towards a new logic of transformation—one that increasingly relies on mediative strategies. Drawing on the innovation economy literature (notably Schumpeter and Kondratieff), I suggest that this shift is not merely procedural but structural: it reflects a fundamental reconfiguration of planning rationalities and institutional frameworks. The movement across these generational modes of planning is marked by a redefinition of risk profiles in development processes, a dramatic increase in the plurality and diversity of stakeholders to be engaged, and the emergence of a profound cognitive and organisational shift within both public and private domains. Focusing particularly on the role of economic actors, I unpack the tensions and potentials inherent in this mediative turn. The talk concludes with reflections on what the current age of mediation means for both practice and academia in the field of spatial development.

Ondřej Beneš, Member of the Board and Chief Commercial Strategy Officer at Trigema a.s., Prague

Ondřej Beneš

Member of the Board and Chief Commercial Strategy Officer at Trigema a.s., Prague

Ondřej graduated from the University of Economics in Prague, majoring in International Trade. He further expanded his expertise at the prestigious IMD Business School in Lausanne, where he completed the Skanska Top Executive program. He joined the Trigema Group in 2024, bringing over 14 years of experience in residential development. His professional journey has been closely tied to Skanska Residential, where he worked as Director of Acquisitions and Business Development, including a year international business assignment in Tampere, Finland. At Trigema, he is responsible for shaping and implementing the group’s long-term commercial strategy. He oversees sales and marketing, drives data integration across the company, and leads the Business Intelligence team. His role includes analyzing market opportunities and driving the strategic development of the group’s commercial potential.

Lucie Pára

Lucie Pára

IPR Praha

Lucie Pára has been working the City Development Section of IPR Prague in since 2019. Currently, she is most involved in the strategical cooperation among cities within the framework of City Deal. Previously, she headed the Strategy Office of Sustainable Development at IPR Prague and also worked in Paris on strategies for the protection, management, and sustainable development of heritage sites. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University (International Territorial Studies) and Sciences Po Paris (Urban and Territorial Strategies).

Roman Bohumínský

Roman Bohumínský

MBARE VŠE

Title: NEXUS Pankrác – Transformation of the Czech Post Site

Roman Bohumínský is a commercial real estate advisor who brings together financial insight, an understanding of workplace needs and a strong focus on people. He specialises in tenant representation, helping companies align their office space with their business goals through relocation, lease renegotiation and workplace planning. As Director of Office Agency at Prochazka & Partners, he leads a team of consultants advising both Czech businesses and international corporations. He has around a decade of professional experience, having started his career in audit at Deloitte before moving into real estate advisory. He studied at the Faculty of Economics at the Prague University of Economics and Business, where he also completed the MBA programme in Real Estate and Valuation (MBARE).

Abstract

The project benefits from an exceptional location linked to the existing metro line C and the future metro line D interchange, combining residential housing, Build-to-Rent rental housing, offices, ground-floor retail and public space. The project is structured into three urban blocks and four SPVs under a holding company. The final thesis includes construction, business, legal and financial sections, which together assess the technical feasibility, market absorption, bankability and economic viability of the project. The business strategy is based on a combination of residential unit sales, a forward sale of the BTR component to an institutional investor and the subsequent sale of a stabilised office building. The financial model confirms the investment attractiveness of the project. The thesis also includes an assessment of risks, ESG, permitting strategy and the legal structure of the project.
Denis Smižanský

Denis Smižanský

MBARE VŠE

Title: NEXUS Pankrác – Transformation of the Czech Post Site

Denis Smižanský came to real estate through building services engineering and today translates the technical condition of buildings into investment decisions for their owners. At Savills Czech Republic he works as Senior Project Manager & MEP Consultant, representing owners of commercial buildings in the preparation and delivery of capital projects, leading technical due diligence on acquisitions and drawing up ten-year modernisation plans in which a building's technical condition meets the economics of its operation. He gained the view from the other side of the table—the developer's—at S+B Group, working on projects in Prague and Warsaw. He holds degrees in Civil Engineering and in Buildings and Environment from the Czech Technical University in Prague, complemented by a Quality Engineering course at Istanbul Technical University and an MBA in Real Estate Investment, Development and Valuation from the Prague University of Economics and Business.

Abstract

The project benefits from an exceptional location linked to the existing metro line C and the future metro line D interchange, combining residential housing, Build-to-Rent rental housing, offices, ground-floor retail and public space. The project is structured into three urban blocks and four SPVs under a holding company. The final thesis includes construction, business, legal and financial sections, which together assess the technical feasibility, market absorption, bankability and economic viability of the project. The business strategy is based on a combination of residential unit sales, a forward sale of the BTR component to an institutional investor and the subsequent sale of a stabilised office building. The financial model confirms the investment attractiveness of the project. The thesis also includes an assessment of risks, ESG, permitting strategy and the legal structure of the project.
Vojtěch Krajíc

Vojtěch Krajíc

MBARE VŠE

Title: NEXUS Pankrác – Transformation of the Czech Post Site

Vojtěch Krajíc is an architect who enjoys exploring the connections between architecture, real estate economics and urban development. His work combines a focus on the quality of housing and the urban environment with an understanding of real estate investment and the development process. Since 2019, he has worked at FACT, contributing to residential design, the conversion of existing buildings and urban design projects. He gained his first insight into property acquisitions and the workings of the real estate market during his three years at Artiga REIM. He studied architecture and urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague, with an additional focus on development, and completed the MBA in Real Estate and Valuation (MBARE) at the Prague University of Economics and Business.

Abstract

The project benefits from an exceptional location linked to the existing metro line C and the future metro line D interchange, combining residential housing, Build-to-Rent rental housing, offices, ground-floor retail and public space. The project is structured into three urban blocks and four SPVs under a holding company. The final thesis includes construction, business, legal and financial sections, which together assess the technical feasibility, market absorption, bankability and economic viability of the project. The business strategy is based on a combination of residential unit sales, a forward sale of the BTR component to an institutional investor and the subsequent sale of a stabilised office building. The financial model confirms the investment attractiveness of the project. The thesis also includes an assessment of risks, ESG, permitting strategy and the legal structure of the project.
Markéta Rydvalová

Markéta Rydvalová

FA CTU Prague

Title: Cost Intensity and Effectiveness of Urban Units in Czech Towns

Abstract

The economics and efficiency of the functioning of urban units in our cities (city cores, residential districts, new development areas, non-disruptive production sites, etc.) financed or significantly supported from public funds is a specific challenge that has not been given sufficient attention in recent years and which provides a wide field for comparative research between individual municipalities. The research itself will focus primarily on a more detailed mapping of the situation in selected smaller towns with approximately 8,000 to 10,000 inhabitants in the Czech Republic. We will focus mainly on the economics and efficiency of the functioning of selected urban units within these settlements and the related evaluation of the efficiency of the use of public funds. We will look for examples of good and bad practice. As part of the research, we will focus on factors that affect the economy and efficiency of functioning and that are a certain common element within the selected settlements, e.g. structure and administration (founders/operators), financing, demography and spatial factor, spatial planning, etc. The aim of the project is to evaluate the current situation in connection with the efficiency and economic demands of the administration and functioning of urban units in our cities based on the collected data from the analysed area, to identify key problems and barriers and to propose recommendations for local governments to streamline the use of public funds within the functioning of urban units in our cities.
Anjeza Llubani

Anjeza Llubani

TU Graz

Title: Who Owns the Space Between? Everyday Perception and Spatial Transformation in Post-Socialist Tirana

Anjeza Llubani is an architect, urban researcher and PhD candidate at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), specialising in the intersection of architecture, urbanism and critical spatial studies. Her doctoral research examines urban fragmentation in post-socialist Tirana, proposing urban choreography as a framework for reconnecting fractured urban environments. She is a University Project Assistant at the Institute of Building Physics, Services and Construction at TU Graz, contributing to research on sustainable construction and Post-Occupancy Evaluation within the APPEAR S-LAB programme, a collaborative initiative between Austria and Bhutan. Since 2019, she has taught at the Polytechnic University of Tirana. She is also co-founder of STROFKA Architectural Studio, a research-oriented practice based in Graz and Tirana, engaging in design, urban analysis and cultural production. Her work focuses on spatial transformation, resilience and the socio-cultural dimensions of urban development. She holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Architecture from Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy.

Abstract

The post-socialist transformation of Tirana has profoundly altered the relationship between property, public space and everyday urban life. Since the early 1990s, privatisation, informal development, mass migration, land-market transformation and rapid densification have reshaped the city's spatial structure. Across post-socialist Europe, the transition from centrally planned systems towards market-oriented urban development transformed both property relations and the organisation of urban space. In Tirana, these processes have been particularly visible through the appropriation and redevelopment of formerly collective and open spaces. Yet such transformations are not visible only in plots, buildings or formally designated public spaces. They are also experienced in the spaces between them: sidewalks, entrances, setbacks, passages, edges, courtyards and street interfaces where public and private territories meet. Recent research has examined the spatial and socioeconomic performance of Tirana's in-between spaces. This paper approaches these spaces from a different perspective by asking: Who owns the space between? Here, ownership is understood not only as a legal or cadastral condition, but as a spatial relationship involving access, control, occupation, appropriation and everyday use. The question therefore concerns not simply who possesses land, but who can use, modify, control and claim space.
Lena Monasse

Lena Monasse

ESPI, Paris

Title: Building collapses in France: externality effects and urban management practices

Lena Monasse is a PhD student in real estate and urban economics, affiliated with the ESPI2R lab of the École Supérieure des Professions Immobilières (ESPI) and the ERUDITE lab of the University of Paris-Est Créteil. Her dissertation studies risks that can lead to the depreciation of real estate assets. As real estate represents the main asset in household portfolios, households increasingly rely on asset-based welfare policies premised on the assumption that real estate appreciates over time. The dissertation investigates threats to this assumption, focusing on property disrepair and the shrinkage and swelling of clay soils.

Abstract

This paper assembles an original dataset of building collapses in French urban areas. Through the systematic collection of regional and municipal press articles, it identifies more than 100 collapses that took place in France between 2010 and 2023, distinguishing those caused by disrepair from unpredictable accidents such as gas leaks. Merged with transaction-level dwelling data, the dataset makes it possible to quantify externality effects on nearby property values and reveals a significant and sizeable negative effect associated with collapses caused by disrepair. Building on this result, the paper explores current management practices for buildings at risk of collapse and offers recommendations to improve prevention.
Maciej Jagódka

Maciej Jagódka

University of Economics in Krakow

Title: Digital skills, brain drain and the geography of discontent – new challenges for cities and regions in the Visegrad countries

Maciej Jagódka, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Krakow University of Economics and a researcher specializing in regional development, socio-economic inequalities, and welfare economics. His work investigates the impacts of technological change, innovation, digitalization, and human capital on regional and social disparities. He is currently the Principal Investigator of a National Science Centre (NCN) SONATA project on technological change and income and regional polarization. He has also led an NCN MINIATURA project examining the impact of digitalization on regional economies and socio-economic inequalities in developing countries. His doctoral dissertation received multiple academic distinctions and awards. He is actively involved in international research networks and peer-review activities for leading scholarly journals. He has held research fellowships at the Prague University of Economics and Business, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Visegrad Fellowship), and Charles University (NAWA Zawacka Programme). During his master's studies, he participated in applied regional development projects, including those related to the Kraków Fast Tram and the revitalisation of the Kraków–Nowa Huta industrial area. During his doctoral studies, he served as Chair of the Doctoral Students’ Council at the Krakow University of Economics.

Abstract

The digital transformation is reshaping the development trajectories of cities and regions across Europe. Advances in artificial intelligence, digital platforms and data-driven business models create new opportunities for innovation, competitiveness and economic growth. However, the benefits are distributed unevenly, generating new social and territorial divides between metropolitan centres and peripheral regions.

This paper examines how digitalisation contributes to the emergence of a new geography of discontent in the Visegrad countries. It focuses on the interaction between digital skills, human capital mobility and regional development. While cities such as Warsaw, Prague, Kraków and Bratislava attract highly skilled workers, technology-intensive investment and knowledge-based activities, many smaller cities and peripheral regions face talent outmigration, demographic decline and lower levels of digital readiness. These processes may reinforce existing regional inequalities and limit the capacity of less-developed territories to benefit from ongoing technological change.
Vilém Honysz

Vilém Honysz

Comenius University Bratislava

Title: Streets, malls and e-commerce: Economic exposure of ground-floor businesses and the role of spatial planning in Bratislava and Vienna

Vilém Honysz is a spatial planner who enjoys finding connections between data, space and people. He focuses on sustainability in all its forms, high-quality public spaces and digitalisation. His alma mater is the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, and he broadened his studies through exchange programmes at TU Dortmund (Fakultät Raumplanung) and RWTH Aachen (Fakultät Architektur, Transforming City Regions programme). He is currently a second-year PhD student at Comenius University, where he is writing his dissertation on the Reflection of Current Challenges in Landscape Management at the Department of Environmental Management and Spatial Planning (KEMPP). He also works part-time as a cross-border project coordinator for the Austrian environmental organisation Global 2000.

Abstract

Traditional shopping streets in Central European cities face two pressures at once: competition from large enclosed shopping centres and the shift of consumer spending to online channels. Spatial planning mainly addresses the first—it decides where shopping centres may be built and what is expected of the ground floor—while the second works through the economics of individual businesses, largely beyond the reach of zoning. A field audit of two traditional streets and their adjacent malls in regulated Vienna and market-driven Bratislava found that planning expectations explain street-level outcomes only in part: the protected Viennese street recorded almost the same vacancy rate as the unprotected street in Bratislava. This paper revisits the same field data from an economic angle and asks how the business structure of streets and malls relates to exposure to online substitution, and which spatial planning instruments are consistent with this economic pattern and where their reach ends.
Laurent Viel

Laurent Viel

Rennes

Title: Managing urban regeneration in partnership with the private sector: the case of Rennes

Laurent Viel is Project Manager for the City Centre in the Urban Development Department of the City of Rennes and Rennes Métropole, where he leads the redevelopment of the former Hôtel-Dieu hospital, the Rennes Centre Ancien programme to upgrade historic multi-owner buildings in the historic centre, and the Cœur Colombier project, which aims to regenerate a district built on an elevated concrete slab between the 1960s and 1980s. An engineer by training with a master’s degree in urban planning from Sciences Po Paris, he worked in engineering consultancy before becoming an urban planner at Rennes Métropole. He later completed a PhD in Environmental Design at the Université de Montréal (2010–2017), focusing on the ethics of urban project management—a path that combines hands-on project delivery with insights from doctoral research into how cities are made.

Abstract

Facing the French national objective of “zero net land take” by 2050—now translated locally by Rennes Métropole across its whole territory—the City of Rennes has to renew itself on its own footprint rather than expand outward. Urban regeneration has therefore become the dominant mode of urban project delivery, pushing the local authority to diversify how it works with the private sector: from fully public-led development operations and purely private projects on individual plots to an increasingly common intermediate approach of negotiated urbanism.

The presentation focuses on the redevelopment of the former Hôtel-Dieu hospital site in the historic centre of Rennes. The City secured land control and selected a private developer through a call for projects that set key objectives—extending the city centre, preserving the historic hospital buildings and delivering socially mixed housing—while leaving the developer to design and finance the project under a joint steering committee. It traces how the project came together, the respective roles of the public and private actors, and the contractual arrangements that frame their cooperation.
Susan Günter

Susan Günter

City Planning Department of Nürnberg

Title: Managing the Planning Process: From Vision to Implementation

Susan Günter, Dipl.-Ing. Stadtplanung (FH), has worked as an urban planner at the City Planning Department of Nürnberg since 2010. For the Lichtenreuth project, she was responsible for the planning phase from the urban design competition through to the creation of the legal framework for development. Her work focused on project management and the coordination and organisation of the planning process. She is currently working on the development of existing neighbourhoods in southern Nuremberg.

Abstract

Large-scale urban development projects need more than good planning ideas. They require continuous management and coordination over many years to bring stakeholders together, prepare decisions and maintain a clear direction from the initial vision through the planning approval process to implementation. Using the Lichtenreuth project, the presentation shares experience in managing and coordinating such a long-term planning process.
Barbora Raková

Barbora Raková

State Investment Promotion Fund (SFPI)

Title: Connect the dots

Barbora Raková works in urban development and public investment and has focused on affordable housing for the past ten years. At SFPI, she advises local authorities on housing development and coordinates the Housing Investment Advisory Hub, the government’s advisory platform for investment in affordable housing. Drawing on experience from professional and academic spheres, she bridges the local, national and European levels in investment preparation and financing. Barbora studied European Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, obtained a master’s degree in Public Policy & Human Development from United Nations University in Maastricht, and during her doctoral studies at Masaryk University undertook placements at the University of Amsterdam and Housing Europe, as well as collaborating with Prof. Joris Hoekstra at TU Delft.

Abstract

The State Investment Promotion Fund operates in the regions in three interlinked roles: it provides funding for affordable housing from national and European sources, helps local authorities navigate the increasingly complex project preparation process, and through the Housing Investment Advisory Hub feeds experience from specific projects, data and multi-sectoral expertise back into the development of new support methods and tools.

A further challenge is emerging. The Czech Republic’s Economic Strategy 2.0 emphasises public-private cooperation, while municipalities, employers and regional development organisations are ready to contribute their own capital, land, know-how or organisational capacity to housing development. Yet no framework systematically links these resources.

The presentation explores this issue through the example of Slovácko, where the Region 47 business association and local authorities are seeking ways to develop affordable rental housing. Entrepreneurs are prepared to contribute funds, local authorities can provide land, and SFPI can offer financing, consultancy and methodological support. The key questions are how to combine these inputs into a functional model, divide roles, returns and risks between the public and private sectors, and create a model from one regional pilot that can be replicated elsewhere in the Czech Republic.
Milan Husár

Milan Husár

Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava

Title: Twin City Future Innovation Manufacturing Hub

Milan Husár is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Management and Spatial Planning at the Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava. His research examines how cities and regions in Central and Eastern Europe manage the transition towards smarter, greener and more inclusive development. His expertise includes energy transition and energy communities, spatial innovations, smart spatial development, cross-border governance and planning cultures in post-socialist contexts. He has a particular interest in the changing role of spatial planners. He is active in international research projects including the Interreg SK-AT Twin City Future Innovation Manufacturing Hub (2C FIMH) and STICS. He connects academic research with practice by bringing together municipalities, universities and industry partners across borders. He teaches spatial planning at bachelor’s, master’s and PhD levels, participates in European academic networks including AESOP and SPACEE, and is an editor of the European Journal of Spatial Development and plaNext – Next Generation Planning.

Abstract

The project’s main objective is to formulate recommendations for a transnational innovation strategy in the manufacturing sector and create the conditions for an innovation hub in Vienna and Bratislava. The Twin City Future Innovation Manufacturing Hub (2C FIMH) will manage the conceptualisation, development, implementation and evaluation of innovative pilot activities in close cooperation with partners for more than two years. It emphasises the targeted transfer of innovative solutions for corporate education and the support and development of start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises, while intensifying cooperation between universities, manufacturing companies and communities of creators and aspiring entrepreneurs.

To achieve effective and sustainable results, the project uses the quadruple helix as its systematic basis. This approach emphasises cooperation between companies, public organisations, universities and civil society, with expert groups providing comprehensive support for the activities.