Meetings

02.12.2008
Forum des Villes - Montpellier, 2-3 December 2008
On the occasion of its presidency of the European Union, France has decided to stress the importance of “sustainability and solidarity in our cities”. Following the meeting of the ministers responsible for housing, cohesion and urban development, whi...read more

04.12.2008
Knowledge in small and medium-sized towns - Faro, 4-5 December 2008
The conference, organised by the Centro de Investigação Sobre o Espaço (CIEO), focuses on the possible contribution of towns to rural development by acting as a place of knowledge creation and diffusion in order to avoid processes of decline and prom...read more

08.12.2008
Scotland’s Housing: building firm foundations for the future - Edinburgh, 8 December 2008
The supply of affordable homes for all of Scotland’s people is a key priority for the Scottish Government, who have pledged to supply at least 35,000 new homes a year by the middle of next decade. With the First Minister bringing forward a £100 milli...read more

09.12.2008
Designing the Parks part II: the present and future of park planning and design - San Francisco, 9-11 December 2008
Today’s designers, planners, and managers of public parks face an array of competing issues and opportunities, yet they lack integrated guidance to address these challenges effectively and creatively. Designing the Parks Part I, (Charlottesville, May...read more

20.01.2009
Global City 2009, Abu Dhabi 20-21 January 2009
Abu Dhabi's emphasis on sustainable urban development and its growing status as a global hub for business and tourism will receive a major thrust early next year when the world's top urban planners, decision-makers, mayors and international media wil...read more

26.01.2009
AGS Annual Meeting 2009: Urban Futures, the Challenge of Sustainability - Zurich 26-29 January 2009
Today, around 50% of the present world population – composed of about one billion people in the developed world and 5.5 billion in the developing world – lives in urban areas. And by 2050 – when the population will have grown to around nine billion –...read more

09.02.2009
3rd European Renewable Energy Policy Conference 2009 - Brussels, 9-11 February 2009
After the great success of the 2007 edition of the European Renewable Energy Policy Conference, the 3rd European Renewable Energy Policy Conference 2009 will take place at the Flagey Convention Center in Brussels on the 9th and 11th February 2009, an...read more

04.03.2009
Annual Meeting Urban Affairs Association - Contesting and Sustaining the City: Neighbourhood, Region, or World - Chicago 4-9 March 2009
Policymakers, planners and scholars debate the question of how we should govern our cities. If we should plan our cities. What place should aesthetic design hold in the process? Whom should we be building our cities for? And with whom should we be ma...read more

08.03.2009
World Congress of the Renewable City 2009 - Sydney, 8-11 March 2009
WCRC 2009 is an international congress for all those in the business of fighting climate change and dramatically lowering dependence on non-renewable resources: influential industry leaders, professionals, researchers and policy makers. It is designe...read more

11.03.2009
Sustainable Cities and Regions: Enabling Vision or Empty Talk? - Örebro, 11-13 March 2009
A majority of the world's population lives in urban areas, a situation that entails both expectations and strains. Cities are frequently depicted as sites of economic growth and innovation, and their location in sub-national regions has become an imp...read more

23.03.2009
Parallel patterns of urban growth and decline - Kaiserslautern, 23-26 March 2009
The 8th International Symposium (UPE 8) of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association aims to be a forum for discussing urban and environmental issues.read more

25.03.2009
7th EcoProcura: Climate Neutral through Procurement - Reykjavik, 25-27 March, 2009
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and Reykjavik City Council are pleased to announce the EcoProcura 2009 conference: Climate Neutral through Procurement.read more

22.04.2009
Second International Conference on Whole Life Urban Sustainability and its Assessment - Loughborough, 22-24 April 2009
Sustainability is arguably the challenge of our time. There is growing recognition that our current development path is now threatening the natural systems upon which our civilisation ultimately depends. Sustainable urban development requires a new w...read more

22.04.2009
Council of European Municipalities and Regions: General Assembly - Malmö, 22-24 April 2009
Members of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe were treated to a typical Swedish lunch in Strasbourg on 27 May 2008. Malmö municipality and the Skåne region offered them a "sustainable development lunch " focusing on home-made, n...read more

07.05.2009
Empty Country and Lively Cities? Spatial Differentiation in the Face of Demographic Change - Berlin, 7-8 May 2009
In recent times, headlines like “Depopulation in Peripheral Regions”, “Rural Areas: Old People´s Homes of Our Society?” or “Cities as Melting Pots?” have been drawing attention to the demographic changes that are now affecting all European countries....read more

12.05.2009
Velo-city 2009: recycling cities - Brussels, 12-15 May 2009
Velo-city 2009 aims to return to the roots of previous Velo-city conferences, in other words, to show the role that cycling plays in urban areas. Velo-city is generally considered to be the largest conference devoted to cycling in the world. Cycling ...read more

13.05.2009
Cabernet 2009 3rd International Conference on Managing Urban Land - Saint Etienne, 13-15 May 2009
The 3rd International Conference on Managing Urban Land is being organised by CABERNET and the Etablissement public foncier de l’Ouest Rhône Alpes (EPORA) in Saint-Etienne, France. EPORA is a public land management authority, created in 1998 heading ...read more

04.06.2009
New Towns for the 21st Century: the Planned vs. the Unplanned City - Almere, June 4-5 2009
What happens after planners leave the brand new New Town and complexity of society takes over? Does overruling of the planners’ concepts imply the failure of planning? Or are these ‘unplanned’ additions and unforeseen use of the planned city actually...read more

07.06.2009
UITP Conference - Public transport: making the right mobility choices - Vienna, 7-11 June 2009
No city today can function efficiently without public transport. Indeed the development of public transport is a prerequisite for sustainable urban development. During this conference UITP (International Assocation of Public Transport) will highlight...read more

14.06.2009
ICLEI World Congress 2009: Connecting leaders - Edmonton, 14-18 June 2009
The ICLEI World Congress 2009, June 14 - 18, 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada will be a five-day event filled with insightful presentations and discussions, study tours and celebrations, sharing and learning in the realm of sustainability.read more