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