Academic researchers, professionals and policy makers interested in the area of the conference are invited to present papers related to the conference topics. You can propose a paper title and abstract in the following sections:
- I. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE URBAN SPACE PLANNING
- Architecture, urban planning and housing
- Public transport and urban connectivity
- Cultural infrastructure
- Infrastructure for recreation and sports
- Urban nature: parks and green spaces
- Waste management infrastructure
- II. DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS AND GALLUP POLL OF THE CONTEMPORARY CITY
- Demographic changes – spatial, social and cultural dimensions
- Migration challenges and dynamics
- Urban stratification of the population
- III. TRANSFORMATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN MANAGEMENT
- Urban governance and local self-government
- Territorial distribution of production and jobs: trends, imbalances, solutions.
- Order, safety and security in the city
- Digital transformation of the cities
- IV. ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CITIES
- Investments and entrepreneurship
- Social and solidarity economy, sharing economy
- Urban mobility, social and economic aspects
- Changing relationship between town and village. Urbanization, peri-urbanization, rurbanization
- V. CITIZENS AND THE CITY
- New forms of participation in the urban community life
- Urban cultures and sub-cultures as new forms of integration and disintegration
- Civic movements and community mobilizations
- Migration, multiculturalism and urban resistance
- VI. CITIES OF THE FUTURE
- Smart Cities, Sustainable Development and urban development. Information and Communication Revolution and Artificial Intelligence in favour of changing cities
- New city strategies for autonomy, connectivity and quality of life (intermodal and autonomous transport, new approaches to the energy supply and energy use, trade, consumption, waste management, etc.).
- Cities as actors of sustainable development: eco neighborhoods, sustainable cities, (inter)urban diplomacy, networks of cities