TRACK 1. GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING OF SMART CITIES
● Smart City: concepts, models and practices
● Smart Urban Governance
● Smart Urban Planning
● The Smart City Narrative in the Global South context
● Climate Change, Resilience and Smart Cities
● Smart City for vulnerable people
● Urban e-Planning and the challenges of the sharing economy
● Platforms and urban governance
● Transparency, Privacy, Surveillance, and Security
● Augmented Reality Technologies 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
● Soundscapes in Urban e-Planning
● E-planning in urban island communities
● Internet of Things and its influence on human spatial behaviour
● Artificial Intelligence and Smart Urban e-Planning
● 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
TRACK 2. CITIZENS e-PARTICIPATION IN URBAN GOVERNANCE
● 50 years after Sherry Arnstein 'A Ladder of Citizen Participation': continuity and change
● Co-creation in Urban e-Planning
● Web-based Citizen Participation in Urban e-Planning
● Citizens as Voluntary Sensors in Urban e-Planning
● Volunteered Geographic Information in Urban e-Planning
● Crowdsensing / Crowdsourcing Spatial Information
● Citizen Mobile Apps for Urban e-Planning
● Participatory Mapping and Public Engagement in Emergency Response
● PPGIS in Urban Planning for community empowerment
● Citizen Science and Urban e-Planning
● The political and practical challenges of Citizen Science approaches
● Serious Games for Participatory e-Planning
● Social Media in Urban e-Planning
● E-Participation of Youth and Children in Urban e-Planning
● Stakeholder Modelling and Participatory Decision-making
● Ethical issues in e-Participation: confidentiality, trust, representativity, diversity
TRACK 3. COVID-19 PANDEMIC: CITY & URBAN E-PLANNING
● Local / city government strategies and actions to control the spread of the pandemic
● Local / city government strategies and actions to tackle the sanitary, social and economic impacts
● Local / city government strategies and actions to distribute resources and care among local populations
● Cooperation with local community action networks and citizen initiatives during the pandemic
● Changes in central-local relations (decentralization / re-centralization)
● Innovations in multi-level governance to tackle more effectively the pandemic
● Inter-municipal cooperation and metropolitan government responses to the pandemic
● Cross-border municipal and regional cooperation during the pandemic
● Policy transfers in Urban Governance related to the pandemic: East-West and North-South
● Globalization and Europeanization of Urban Policy responses to the pandemic
● Policy innovation in Urban Governance/ Urban e-Planning
● New technologies in local mobility, on remote work and education, and on surveillance through tracking and tracing the Covid-19 in urban areas
● Social Networks, AI, Big Data in the response to the pandemic
● Local / city government strategies, policy measures, planning scenarios, and actions being designed for the post Covid-19 crisis, namely towards building resilient, smart communities
● Opportunities opened up in Urban e-Planning by the pandemic and challenges that remain for building the post-pandemic sustainable, resilient and just city
● Lessons and prospects for governance and urban e-planning in the post-pandemic: Housing; Urban Historical Centres; Mobility; Urban Green Spaces; Urban Food Systems; Health Care; Social Care; Local economy and labour market; Solidarity and Mutual Aid; Arts and cultural sector; Leisure
● The impact of the pandemic on conducting research in Urban e-Planning
● [ NOTE: Track 3 is associated with the Action Plan developed by the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance - 'IGU-CGoG COVID-19 Action Plan' . For more information, see the IGU-CGoG website - more here > ]