Conference key themes: - Urban and regional resilience, - Small cities after decline, - Small cities in non-core areas: local, regional and national policies on their shrinking and/or revival, - Local self-government and inter-budgetary relations, - Strategies and instruments of re-growth and...

Among the themes most relevant for spatial development, strategic planning and regional studies in Russia, the conference will focus on the following: - Urban and Regional Theory - ​Urban and Regional Policy and Planning​ - New Economic Geography - Spatial Planning in Russia - Metropolitan...