{"id":9282,"date":"2016-12-21T13:37:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=9282"},"modified":"2017-06-20T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T09:46:28","slug":"south-africa-urban-and-regional-science-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=9282","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Urban and Regional Science conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Over the past years, several international conferences in the field of regional science have been organized in South Africa<\/i>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/>\nThe 3<\/span><sup>rd<\/sup><span style=\"color: #333333; padding-bottom: 30px;\"> Biannual ISIbalo CRUISE Urban and Regional Science Conference \u2013 to be held in the picturesque city of Stellenbosch in 2017 \u2013demonstrates that regional science research in South Africa is increasingly anchored in the strong international research tradition encouraged by The Regional Science Association International. South Africa aspires to be a recognized partner of the international regional science community.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><strong>Aim:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The conference is aimed at bringing researchers from academia, the private and public sectors and non-governmental organizations together in an effort to present and debate prevalent urban and regional development issues and to share knowledge, viewpoints, methods and research outcomes around six main themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Theme 1 \u2013 Social and economic change in cities and regions<\/li>\n<li>Theme 2 \u2013 Clusters \/ corridors \/ declining \/ lagging areas<\/li>\n<li>Theme 3 \u2013 Formal \/ informal business growth \/ decline<\/li>\n<li>Theme 4 \u2013 Mobility \/ migration \/ commuting trends and issues<\/li>\n<li>Theme 5 \u2013 Urban growth \/ housing trends and issues<\/li>\n<li>Theme 6 \u2013 Governance \/ policy issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Researchers in the fields of Economics, Planning, Geography, Sociology and related Social Sciences are encouraged to participate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"span3\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/stellenbosch.jpg\" border=\"0\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"span3\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/stellenboschnew1.jpg\" border=\"0\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"span3\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/stellenbosch2.jpg\" border=\"0\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past years, several international conferences in the field of regional science have been organized in South Africa. The 3rd Biannual ISIbalo CRUISE Urban and Regional Science Conference \u2013 to be held in the picturesque city of Stellenbosch in 2017 \u2013demonstrates that regional science research in South Africa is increasingly anchored in the strong&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=9282\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10085,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"assd.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9282","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9282"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11706,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9282\/revisions\/11706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}