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September 2008
Underground Spaces 2008
Event: First International Conference on Underground Spaces ˆ Design, Engineering and Environmental Aspects. The conference will discuss the structural and material characterization aspects as well as the trends regarding the utilisation of underground spaces (ranging from, classical excavations to subway constructions, underground sport halls, power stations, waste repositories, underground cities, and many others). In particular the conference will emphasise the environmental aspects, architectural characteristics and concepts that might be applied to make the underground space an integral part of the city planning and a healthy living environment.
Date: 8 -10 September 2008
Location: The New Forest, UK
Organiser: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Alice Jones
Telephone: +44 (0)2380 293223
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2008/underground08/index.html
Cityscape USA
Event: Cityscape USA 2008 ˆ Bridging US and Emerging Real Estate Markets ˆ will be a showcase for unparalleled investment opportunities in emerging real estate markets. Held in New York, it will be an opportunity for the US real estate industry to network with some of the most significant real estate investors and developers from the emerging world and to attract investment into US real estate projects and vehicles.
Cityscape USA attracts regional and international investors, real estate developers, governmental and development authorities, leading architects, designers, consultants and other senior professionals involved in the real estate industry.
Whether you are looking for development and investment opportunities, joint venture partners, or simply to discover the best way to penetrate the most talked about real estate markets in the world, Cityscape USA will provide you with the platform to achieve this.
Date: 9 to 11 September 2008
Location: Javits Centre, New York
Organiser: Institute for International Research
Contact: Faye Black
Telephone: +971 4 336 5161 ext 320
Email: faye.black@iirme.com
Internet: www.cityscape-usa.com
Climate Change and Urban Design
Science, Education Policy, Best Practice
Event: Following successful Congresses in Berlin 2005 and Leeds 2006, the Council for European Urbanism C.E.U. - will hold its third international congress in Oslo, Norway from 14 to 16 September 2008. The venue will be Håndverkeren Conference Center.
The congress will discuss the rapidly-evolving topic of "Climate Change and Urban Design", and the latest implications in science, policy, education and best practice.
While our focus is on European place-making we will explore urban design examples from around the globe that offer opportunities to address critical climate change issues.
What is the latest science telling us? What are the consequences for urban development internationally? What are the practical solutions available to reduce climate gas emissions from urban settlements and transport? What strategies are available to adapt to changing conditions?
The C.E.U. congress will welcome government officials, planners, architects, social scientists, ecologists, developers, local community activists, and all other development stakeholders who feel a responsibility to contribute to more sustainable urban development
Join us for an exceptional gathering of researchers and institutions from around the world, representing 27 countries from every continent except Antarctica.
Leading work will be presented and discussed from Europe, North America and elsewhere. We will cover an extremely wide range of topics on mitigation and adaptation in urban design, spanning science, policy, education and best practice.
Among topics discussed will be land use patterns; urban morphology, density and mixed use; transport modes; the relationship of urban space to agricultural lands and wilderness; albedo and heat island effects; microclimate effects; economics incentives; pricing and trading; curriculum reform; evidence-based design; planning processes, coding and certification; and promising innovations from around the world. We will consider the latest analytic and modelling research, together with the latest tools and other advances in policy and implementation.
Date: 14 – 16 September 2008
Location: Oslo, Norway
Organiser: CEU - Council for European Urbanism
Contact: Audun Engh
Telephone: +47.92622626
Email: audun.engh@gmail.com
Internet: www.cityclimate.no
Cities of Opportunity
‘The urban promise of upward mobility’
(An EUKN International Conference)
Event: Europe is a city. Some 75 per cent of Europeans live in urban areas. They are responsible for over 80 per cent of all economic activity. Prosperous cities‚ equals a prospering Europe. At the same time, opportunity and prosperity are not equally distributed within the city. Every European urban area contains neighbourhoods, districts, streets that are more or less deprived. Deprived urban areas are often viewed as being problematic and harmful within the urban fabric.
From a more positive point of view, deprived urban areas hold an enormous potential for socio-economic development. The challenge is to harness the potential of deprived urban areas and their inhabitants and offer them opportunities to access the wider society.
The 2008 edition of the European Urban Knowledge Network’s (EUKN) international conference will change the perception of deprived urban areas as an accumulation of problems to a view that is more in line with the actual situation in our cities. The conference will focus on how to harness the potential and energy present in deprived urban areas and on exploring ways in which these areas and their inhabitants can play their part in the creation of comprehensive, well-balanced and vital cities.
Speakers include:
• Patrick Le Galès, Research Director at CNRS and at Sciences Po
• Ella Vogelaar, Minister for Housing, Communities and Integration
• Opstelten, Mayor of Rotterdam
• Dominic Schrijer, Vice-Mayor of Rotterdam
The social programme includes a boat tour on the River Maas and a panoramic conference dinner wioth a view of the Rotterdam skyline.
‘Cities of opportunity ˆ the urban promise of upward mobility’ is organised by the European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) in co=operation with the City of Rotterdam, the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and Nicis Institute. EUKN is a decentralised knowledge network with National Focal Points (NFPs) in 16 EU Member States. Nicis Institute hosts the EUKN Secretariat.
Cost: €200 for two conference days
Early Bird (before 15 July): €150 for two conference days
Date: 22-23 September 2008
Location: City Hall - Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Organiser: European Urban Knowledge Network
Contact: Bart Nijhof
Telephone: +31 70 344 0513
Email: bart.nijhof@nicis.nl
Internet: click
Sustainable City and Creativity:
Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives
Event: The aim of the meeting is to analyze in depth principles and practices of the creative city for the formulation of policy lessons and recommendations able to contribute to the building of a creative city.
In particular, it will be focused on the following issues:
1. what is a creative city; how the creative city actually works, which are the key features and the critical elements conditioning creativity; how ideas turn into urban innovations; the drivers stimulating a city to innovate, the barriers and the constraints;
2. which are the benefits of the creative city in terms of competitiveness, environment, welfare, social stability, quality of life, vitality;
3. which are the key assets, infrastructures and tools required to promote creative processes in cities towards competitive, sustainable and cohesive places, and how public policy can influence the creative city.
The Scientific Committee - composed by Sir Peter Hall, Tuzin Baycan Levent, Roberto Camagni , Giuliana Di Fiore, Francesco Forte, Luigi Fusco Girard, Klaus Kunzmann, Peter Nijkamp, John Rees, Pierluigi Sacco and Roger Stough - has been involved in order to identify the Meeting themes/contents
Date: 24 to 26 September 2008
Location: Naples, Italy
Organiser: Luigi Fusco Girard, Peter Nijkamp
Contact: Luigi Fusco Girard, Peter Nijkamp
Telephone: +39 335 455 988
Email: girard@unina.it
Internet: http://www.creativecity2008.eu/ocs or http://www.creativecity2008.eu/ocs/index.php/creativecity2008/index
The Sustainable City 2008
Event: Fifth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. The conference aims to address the many inter-related aspects of the urban environment from transport and mobility to social exclusion and crime prevention. It is hoped that the meeting will build on the contributions made in previous conferences, which successfully managed to provide an international view of the problems facing modern cities and their solutions.
Date: 24 - 26 September 2008
Location: Skiathos, Greece
Organiser: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Alice Jones
Telephone: +44 (0)2380 293223
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2008/
November 2008
Urban Development Forum
Event: In recent years cities have emerged as the backbone of economies all over the world, with their higher contributions to overall employment and growth. There are many factors that determine urban competitiveness, both at the national and the international levels. As in most countries, India‚s urban area makes a major contribution to the country‚s economy. The challenges of reorienting the urbanisation process, thus lies in overcoming the infrastructural deficiencies while gaining economy momentum.
Urban Development Forum 2008 is complete with excellent case studies and panel discussion from leading industry players that will showcase their experience and expertise on dealing with some of the challenges of urban development in India. Delegates will gain first-hand information on holistic approach towards urban development challenges and future direction of sustaining development. The highly interactive 2-day conference will offer excellent networking opportunities to delegates.
This two-day conference is designed to provide delegates a platform in gaining knowledge in order to meet today’s challenges of creating sustainable development. Last but not least, this conference will offer delegates excellent networking opportunities. Participants of this event will gain useful information that will clear many doubts on the urban development in the Indian market.
Date: 06 to 07 November 2008
Location: Mumbai, India
Organiser: Marcus Evans
Contact: Alexis Nair
Telephone: +603 2723 6713
Email: AlexisN@marcusevanskl.com
Internet: www.marcusevans.com
December 2008
International conference on knowledge in small and medium sized towns
Event: The conference focuses on the possible contribution of towns to rural development by acting as a place of knowledge creation and diffusion in order to avoid processes of decline and promote a geographically balanced and sustainable development in rural areas. An important question related to this is how to take advantage of the potential of towns and rural areas and how to increase their competitiveness, encouraging their advantages over more urbanized areas.
Important issues are for example the challenges created by learning and knowledge diffusion in towns and rural areas, the potential of towns in bottom-up policies such as the Leader+ approach, the importance of knowledge in rural areas and the function of towns in rural-urban (knowledge) networks.
Date: 4 and 5 December 2008
Location: Faro, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Organiser: Centro de investigação sobre o Espaço e as Organizações
Contact: Dr Professora Maria Teresa de Noronha
Telephone: 00351 289 800 900 (ext. 7189/7265)
Email: cieo@ualg.pt
Internet: www.cieo.ualg.pt
March 2009
3rd Annual City Development
Event: This conference will focus on innovative strategies and ideas on creating and managing a sustainable city and discovering the investments opportunities. Bringing together the best practices to ensure cities are providing for community well being, facilitating high quality and sustainable transportation and infrastructure, achieving desired employment levels and economic growth, as well as environmentally sustainable.
Streams of conference:
Stream 1: City Planning, Development and Conservation
Stream 2: Transportation and Infrastructure
Stream 3: Finance and Investment
Stream 4: Water, Sewerage and Solid Waste Management
Stream 5: Sustainable Communities, Environment and Development
Stream 6: Real Estate Investment and Development
Date: 30 and 31 March 2009
Location: Singapore
Organiser: Marcus Evans
Contact: Cindy Cluny
Telephone: +603 2723 6745
Email: CindyC@marcusevanskl.com
Internet: www.marcusevanskl.com
May 2009
Sustainable Development and Planning 2009
Event: This conference provides a common forum for all planners, environmentalists, engineers, architects, ecologists, economists, policy makers and other governmental officials, researchers and academics specialising in the range of subjects included within sustainable development and planning.
Date: 13 - 15 May 2009
Location: Cyprus
Organiser: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Alice Jones
Telephone: +44 (0) 2380 293223
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2009/sdp09/index.html
June 2009
City of Tomorrow 09
Event: City of Tomorrow 09 (CoT) is a premier internationally focused exhibition, open to all cities around the world and to top businesses. The inaugural exhibition in 2009 will focus on sustainable urban development, tourism, environmental sustainability issues, infrastructure development and FDI. CoT aims to provide a platform for city representatives and businesses to showcase their potential to private and corporate investors, the general public, potential tourists and companies engaged in the hospitality sector. The exhibition will be an excellent opportunity for networking with top officials and business leaders. CoT will provide a platform for local governments to showcase their cities‚ achievements and to seek out global opportunities. Poised to become and annual international networking exhibition and conference, City of Tomorrow will be focusing on investment in cities, tourism and sustainable development.
Date: 2-4 June 2009
Location: Madinat Jumeirah Dubai- UAE
Organiser: M3D MediaCom
Contact: Mike Milord
Telephone: +97148019252
Internet: http://www.cityoftomorrow09.com
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