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