Meetings

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

28.01.2009
The Urban Divide in Latin America: challenges and strategies for social inclusion - Gainesville, Florida, 28-30 January 2009
Latin America has the largest percentage of urban population of any world region in addition to the most unequal distribution of income. This inequality is most apparent in cities, where the richest and the poorest live in close proximity, and social...read more

29.01.2009
UITP seminar on the future EU directive on the procurement of clean road vehicles - Brussels, 29 January 2009
In October 2008, the European Council and the Parliament have adopted the new Directive on the Promotion of Clean and Energy Efficient Road Transport Vehicles. The European Commission had presented a revised proposal, COM(2007)817, on 19 December 200...read more

04.02.2009
Intermodes 2009 - Brussels, 4-5 February 2009
INTERMODES is aimed at all international players in the passenger transport sector: elected officials, international authorities, community groups, manufacturers, operators, researchers wishing to contribute towards perfecting intermodality on the do...read more

12.02.2009
First European Workshop for City Managers - Biarritz (France), 12-14 February 2009
Tourism, including leisure and business, is the largest industry in today’s world. Nowadays, the progress of cities is linked to the development of this sector more closely than ever before. The success of this development depends not only on the inv...read more

12.02.2009
2nd Annual High-Rise Buildings - London, 12-13 February 2009
This conference focuses on designing and engineering iconic tall structures that require unique expertise, visionary thinking and innovative technology. It is organisaed by Marcus Evans and this second annual conference on high-rise buildings will be...read more

02.03.2009
Transforming the Metropolis: Creating Sustainable and Humane Cities - Houston, 2-4 March 2009
For the first time in history, more than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. At this defining moment in the history of cities, the De Lange Conference will ask many of the world's leading thinkers and practitioners of innovative ...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

10.03.2009
Green Cities™ Florida - Orlando, 10-12 March 2009
Green Cities™ Florida is the inaugural launch of the Green Cities™ event series. This event held March 10 - 12, 2009 at the Orange County Convention Center North Concourse Building will create significant opportunities specific to creating a green ec...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

30.03.2009
Assembly of European Regions: climate change conference - Limoges, 30-31 March 2009
Global warming has become an undeniable reality. Natural causes can only explain a small part of this phenomenon. The overwhelming majority of scientists agree that it is caused by rising concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosp...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