Tracks & Themes

TRACK 1 - SMART URBAN GOVERNANCE AND E-PLANNING - 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 - MANAGING NATURAL AND MAN MADE DISASTERS AND THE POST-PANDEMIC - This track addresses and discusses the role of Urban e-Planning in natural and man made disasters and in the post-pandemic city recovery policies.


TRACK 4 - URBAN E-PLANNING AND THE MANAGING OF THE ENERGY CRISIS - This track explores and compares the city e-planning responses to the current energy crisis.


TRACK 5 - 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.

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TRACK 1 - SMART URBAN GOVERNANCE AND E-PLANNING

● Smart City: concepts, models and practices

● Artificial Intelligence and Urban e-Planning

● Platform Urbanism and urban governance

● 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

● Planning through the metaverse

Planning education in the metaverse

● E-Planning and Tactical Urbanism

E-Planning, the rise of remote work and the impact of changing lifestyles

Electric mobility and Urban e-Planning

Urban commons in the digital age and Urban e-Planning

● Diversity, inclusion and equity in Urban e-Planning

Urban e-Planning and social equity

● Racism and Urban e-Planning

● Smart City for vulnerable people

● Smart City, refugees and displaced communities

● E-Planning and urban informality in the Global South

● Digital brading in the context of Urban e-Planning

● Big Data and Open Data in Urban e-Planning

● Transparency, Privacy, Surveillance, and Cyber security

● Data Ethics in Urban e-Planning

● General Data Protection Regulations on Urban e-Planning

● Appropriation by planning actors of the knowledge accrued through the use of ICT

Impacts of e-Planning on urban innovation


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 - MANAGING NATURAL AND MAN MADE DISASTERS AND THE POST-PANDEMIC

● Urban e-Planning and the management of natural disasters

● Urban e-Planning and the management of man made disasters

● Innovations on Urban e-Planning to tackle the impacts of extreme events

● Policy measures, planning scenarios, and actions in the post-pandemic

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

● Health and wellbeing in post-pandemic cities

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

● Benchmarking and comparing post-pandemic city recovery strategies


TRACK 4 - URBAN E-PLANNING AND THE MANAGING OF THE ENERGY CRISIS

Impacts of the energy crisis on urban governance systems

● Municipal mesures to fight energy crisis: sharing urban e-planning experiences

● Urban e-planning measures to mitigate the impacts on citizens


TRACK 5 - 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