11-10-2008, Source: Urbanicity.org

Planners, architects, elected officials, policy makers, environmentalists, along with college students and professors concerned with what the "ideal city" should look like are invited to attend this conference.

Amsterdam is known as the ideal city for the 21st Century when measured by the standard of social justice, environmentalism, planning and design. The organisation sponsors a conference in Amsterdam (October 11 to 14) and a scholarly book that will explore what is the ideal approach to housing, drug laws, transportation, prostitution, environmentalism, development, crime, brown fields, and urban design. Indeed, Amsterdam is a laboratory of innovation that provides a model for the rest of the world. But we also believe that other cities can also give us innovative, smart, bold and brash ideas as well. We welcome a range of policy ideas from around the world to help improve the human condition.

The conference, an edited book, as well as a journal will address what a city needs in order to be ideal. We already have papers outlining strategies for ending homelessness, car free cities, right to basic necessities of life, sexual freedom, sustainable cities, and the creation of good jobs. This conference explicitly deals with places, policies, and programmes that we can point to from around the world.

Registration fee:

Click here for the programme of the conference.

Hotel San Luchesio
Waldeck Pyrmontlaan 9
1075 BT Amsterdam,
tel: 31-20-6716731
e-mail: info@sanluchesio.nl

and

Lloyds Hotel and Cultural Embassy
Oostelijke Handelskade 34
1019 BN Amsterdam
T. +31 (0)20 561 3636
F. +31 (0)20 561 3600
e-mail: post@lloydshotel.com