Program - Themes
Theme 1: Smart Cities: Governance and Planning
· Smart City: concepts, models and practices
· The Political Economy of the Smart City
· Smart Urban Planning
· Smart Urban Governance
· Data driven Urban Planning
· Smart City and the Development of e-Services
· Smart City and Urban Heritage
· Digital Inequalities and Vulnerable Citizens in the Smart City
· Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Smart City
Theme 2: Citizens e-Participation & Collaborative Planning
· Volunteered Geographic Information for Urban Planning
and Disaster Management
· Crowdsourcing Spatial Information for Urban Planning
· Web-based Citizen Participation in Urban Planning
· Citizens as Voluntary Sensors in Urban e-Planning
· Citizen Mobile Apps for Urban e-Planning
· Participatory Mapping for Community Empowerment
· Citizen Science and Urban e-Planning
· Games for Idea Generation and Participatory Planning
and Serious Games
· Scenario Planning Tools
· Open local e-government and urban planning
· e-Participatory Budgeting in Local Government
· Mass online deliberation on Urban Issues
· Radical technological innovation and the power of citizens
· in urban planning
· Progressive Urban e-Planning
· Historical Lessons of Citizen e-Participation Practices
Theme 3: The real and virtual in Urban e-Planning
· Augmented Reality Technologies in Urban e-Planning
· Drones and Sensors in Urban e-Planning
· Visualization of Virtual 3-D and 4-D Urban Models
and Spatial Landscape Evaluation
· Geodesign and the planning of natural and built environments
· Living Labs and Urban Innovation
· Virtual environments in Urban e-Planning (soundscapes, ...)
· Social media in Urban e-Planning
Theme 4: Theory, Ethics and Methods in Urban e-Planning
· Urban e-Planning Theories
· Urban e-Planning Ethics
· Urban e-Planning Research Methods
· Online Research Methods and Digital Tools
· e-Planning and Pedagogy
· Spatial Big Data in Urban e-Planning
· Spatial Open Data and Open Tools for Urban e-Planning
· Transparency, Privacy, Surveillance, and Security