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"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…

Challenges of Deindustrialisation in Western Societies since the 1970s

Workshop as part of the "Confronting Decline" (CONDE) project supported by the IfL as an advisory…

"Critical Approaches to Militarisation and Space“

Interdisciplinary workshop on the (new) relations between military, state, society and space

IfL research workshop #9

Exploring affects and emotions in current spatially related research: established methods and new…

News in brief

New blog post: Power, silences, and production of space. New map of Russian State, 2023

In January 2023 the discussion on the new law, which would classify any maps that “question the territorial integrity” of the Russian State as "extremist materials", has started in Russian Federation.