CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES:

The conference seeks to push forward the boundaries of current practices and knowledge to embrace innovative solutions, novel approaches, and grounded technologies within realistic comprehension of economic risks and environmental implications. It investigates different scales and situations, various urban forms and morphology, localities and totalities. It provides a platform for academics and practitioners to present recent research, findings, and answers to pressing issues of building new cities and expanding existing ones worldwide within their ecological limits, formulating images, architecture, public spaces to create liveable, working, and productive cities.

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

Researchers who wish to participate in this event are invited to submit original and unpublished papers addressing one of these main five topics: 1- ANTICIPATE: CITIES AT A TIME OF RISK Understanding the notion of risk and uncertainty as constraints in architecture and urbanism, Social, economic, environmental and political development under risk, Risk assessment in architectural and urban management, Climate change mitigation, Developing action-oriented roadmaps for better allocation of investments 2- REACT: RESOURCE EFFICIENT CITIES: Governing cities for sustainable energy, cities and, biodiversity, and ecological concerns, Eco cities, sustainable urbanism, and mobility, Design and planning of smart and low carbon cities, Water management, energy, eco-efficient materials and urban metabolism, Global Warming and responsive architecture, Challenges of teaching sustainable urbanism and architecture. 3- INTEGRATE: BUILDING CITIES FOR ALL: Policies, tools and indicators for new cities, with reference to SDGs. Alignment with the “New Urban Agenda”, Safety and inclusiveness, democratic urbanism, urban equity and poverty eradication, and the effectiveness of decentralization reforms, New urbanism versus new “ruralism”, urban farming, tactical urbanism, humanitarian logistics network design, rethinking urban transformation, Innovative practices in public participation, approaches of blue economy, practices of participatory landscape, new forms of Delivery and Implementation, Revitalization of public and open spaces, and creating productive spaces, Social entrepreneurship. 4- PROMOTE: BRANDING NEW CITIES New design concepts in architecture and urbanism, Discourses of trans-disciplinary urbanism, Co-invention networks, and inventive productivity in cities, New housing trends, innovations in urban infrastructure financing, New construction methods, materials and techniques for new developments that would ensure sustainability, and identity, Parametric modeling practices, advances in characterization and monitoring techniques. 5- INNOVATE: REAL ESTATE AS A TOOL Reasl Estate can be used to reshape cities through: Real estate leading mega developments strategies, Public private partnerships for new cities development, Master developer and infrastructure funds for new cities’ development, creating value in mixed-use developments, Real estate development process from concepts to products, Investment analysis and real estate finance, mortgage finance mechanisms, Real estate marketing /market studies for innovative real estate products’ property and facility management approaches through challenging times, Real estate appraisal approaches, and developing real estate pricing indices.