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Press releases

"Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning" accepted to Scopus database

Since June 2023, the Open-Access-journal “Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning” is part of the database Scopus. The journal, which is published by ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the…

IfL studies mobility patterns in northern Saxony and the Erzgebirge district

In the coming months, a research team at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) will analyse the mobility behaviour and mobility needs of the population in peripheral areas of Saxony. The aim of the…

Invitation to the "IfL Happy Hour" at DKG '23

On Thursday evening, DKG '23 will leave the campus and head out into the city. We will meet in…

"Post-socialist forever?"

Lecture by Markus Sattler at the "Pochen"-Symposium in Chemnitz

"Culture, Infrastructure, Mobility"

International conference from 9 to 11 October in Sofia, Bulgaria

European Week of Regions and Cities

IfL contributes to the session "UNIVERSITY: 'Left Behind Places' – Findings of a Cross-National…

GlobeBook: Stadt ohne Wachstum? Forum „Klimawandel & demografischer Wandel als Chance”

Vorstellung des Buchs "Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World: Learning to Thrive Without Growth!” von…

News in brief

New blog post: Should we stop uttering “development”?

Our colleagues Danai Liodaki, Franziska Görmar, Markus Sattler and Thilo Lang had a "virtual" conversation about this question, which can now be read on the IfL blog.