Tracks - Themes

The Conference is organized into four main tracks or themes

TRACK 1 - GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING OF SMART CITIES - This track examines and discusses current trends, practices, challenges, and innovations in the governance and planning of Smart Cities, including in the context of crisis management.

TRACK 2 - URBAN E-PLANNING AND CLIMATE EMERGENCY - This track explores and discusses the role of urban e-planning in local / urban adaptation and mitigation policies, and the respective challenges and outcomes.

TRACK 3 - URBAN E-PLANNING AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC - This track addresses and discusses the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on urban e-planning practices and the role assigned to urban e-planning in the post-pandemic recovery policies.

TRACK 4 - CITIZENS e-PARTICIPATION IN URBAN GOVERNANCE - This track examines and discusses the multiple forms of e-participation, including Citizen Science, and its role in urban e-planning.

TRACK 1 - GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING OF SMART CITIES

● Smart City: concepts, models and practices

● Smart Urban Governance and Planning

● Artificial Intelligence and Urban e-Planning

● Smart City for vulnerable people

● E-Planning and Tactical Urbanism

● E-Planning and urban informality in the Global South

● Platforms and urban governance

● Transparency, Privacy, Surveillance, and Cyber security

● Augmented Reality Technologies in Urban e-Planning

● Visualization of Virtual 3-D and 4-D Urban Models and Landscape Evaluation

● Living Labs and Urban Innovation

● Soundscapes in Urban e-Planning

● Internet of Things and its influence on human spatial behaviour

● Big Data and Open Data in Urban e-Planning

● Data Ethics in Urban e-Planning

● General Data Protection Regulations on Urban e-Planning

TRACK 2 - URBAN E-PLANNING AND CLIMATE EMERGENCY

● Urban e-planning in a warming world

● Urban e-planning and decarbonization

● Urban e-Planning and the energy transition

● Urban e-Planning and mitigation: the reduction of GHG Emissions

● Urban e-Planning and adaptation: the response to the impacts of Climate Change

● Climate change, resilience and Smart Cities

TRACK 3 - URBAN E-PLANNING AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

● Local government policies to control the spread of the pandemic

● Local government policies to tackle the sanitary, social and economic impacts of the pandemic

● Local government and the distribution of resources and care to the local population

● 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

● Changes in local mobility, remote work and education, and surveillance due to the Pandemic

● Tracking and tracing the Covid-19 in urban areas

● Social Networks, AI, Big Data in the response to the pandemic

● Policy measures, planning scenarios, and actions being designed for the post Covid-19 crisis

● Opportunities opened up in Urban e-Planning by the pandemic

● Building the post-pandemic sustainable, resilient and just city

● Lessons and prospects for governance and urban e-planning in the post-pandemic

TRACK 4 - CITIZENS e-PARTICIPATION IN URBAN GOVERNANCE

● 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

● Co-creation in Urban e-Planning

● Participatory Mapping and Public Engagement in Emergency Response

● PPGIS in Urban Planning for community empowerment

● Virtual/Mixed/Augmented reality in online participation

● Citizen Science and Urban e-Planning

● Serious Games for Participatory e-Planning

● Social Media in Urban e-Planning

● E-Participation of Youth and Children

● Ethical issues in e-Participation: confidentiality, trust, diversity