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