Program Themes

PROGRAM THEMES

Theme 1: Governance and Planning of Smart Cities

● Smart City: concepts, models and practices

● Smart Urban Governance

● Smart Urban Planning

● Smart Cities as Place Branding

● Platform Governance

● Transparency, Privacy, Surveillance, and Security

Theme 2: Citizens e-Participation in Urban Planning

● Citizens as Voluntary Sensors

● Volunteered Geographic Information

● Crowdsensing / Crowdsourcing Spatial Information

● Web-based Citizen Participation

● Citizen Mobile Apps

● Participatory Mapping

● Citizen Science and Urban e-Planning

● Serious Games for Participatory Planning

● Social Media in Urban e-Planning

● Ethical issues in e-Participation: confidentiality, trust, representativity, diversity (gender, ethnicity, disability)

● E-Participation of Youth and Children in Urban e-Planning

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

● Tactility - working with physical material models

● Living Labs and Urban Innovation

● Soundscapes in Urban e-Planning

● Internet of Things and its influence on human spatial behaviour

Theme 4: Data Analytics and New Decision Support Tools for Urban e-Planning

● Artificial Intelligence in Urban e-Planning

● AI Transparency and Governance Issues in Urban e-Planning

● Machine learning in Urban e-Planning

● Stakeholder Modelling and Participatory Decision-making

● Big Data and Open Data in Urban e-Planning

● City Data Sovereignty and Open Digital Urban Governance

● Data Ethics in Urban e-Planning

● General Data Protection Regulations on Urban e-Planning