Urban Design and Planning

The Fifteenth Global Studies Conference (BLENDED), University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 21-23 July 2022. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, virtual lightning talks, virtual posters, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes:

Theme 1: Networks of Economy and Trade

Theme 2: The Power of Institutions

Theme 3: Vectors of Society and Culture

Theme 4: Ecological Foundations

CONFERENCE SUBMISSION DEADLINES

European Center of Sustainable Development in collaboration with Canadian Institute of Technology will organize the 9th ICSD 2021 International Conference on Sustainable Development, with particular focus on Environmental, Economic and Socio-Cultural Sustainability.

The Conference theme : Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: Research, Practice and Education.

FFJ-Michelin Foundation Workshop: City logistics for sustainable and liveable cities

City logistics aims to balance the economic growth and environmental friendliness, safety and security in cities. This workshop is to present recent advances of the research in modelling, planning and implementing city logistics and discuss issues and innovative solutions associated with urban freight transport for sustainable and liveable cities.

In recent years, housing research has spurred a growing interest from architectural historians, theorists and practitioners alike. However, housing studies are still developed mostly outside the field of architecture. The discourse on housing is nowadays taken over mainly by developers, social activists, policy makers and administrators, who reason mostly under the pressure of immediate practicality.

The Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder is hosting a variety of virtual events during the 2020-21 academic year. We invite you to join us for Murray Hiebert's talk "Under Beijing's Shadow." Details are below.  All of our events are listed at https://www.colorado.edu/cas/event-list.

There is strong scientific evidence that human-induced climate change is a real threat and human activity is the main cause of this urgent problem; despite the existing evidence, fossil fuel consumption continues to rise, as well as global energy demand—under normal circumstances.  However, the COVID-19 crisis changed this scenario having an immediate impact on health, wellbeing, energy use, and CO₂ emissions. Energy justice calls for a moral analysis of all current energy systems from legal, political, and philosophical perspectives.

The Urban Laboratory, based at UCL, are hosting an online film screening and panel discussion on Thursday 14th January, to examine the role of artistic production in challenging knowledge and inspiring activism around waste and toxicity, looking at these issues in the context of Latin America.

This event has been organised by Dr Adriana Massidda (De Montfort University), as part of a collaboration with Dr Hanna Baumann, based at UCL's Institute for Global Prosperity.

The call for papers in the International Symposium of Architecture, Technology and Innovation (ATI) has started and will continue until February 15, 2021. For this year, the topic of the Symposium is determined as “Designing for Uncharted Territories.”

The call for papers in the International Symposium of Architecture, Technology and Innovation (ATI) has started and will continue until February 15, 2021. For this year, the subtitle of the Symposium is determined as “Designing for Uncharted Territories.”

The City, the Media and Gentrification: Actors, Discourses and Representations