Conference Theme The Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Property Development (UPPD) serves as a platform for academics, researchers, scientists, consultants and policy makers to interact and discuss how to improve urban planning and property development in order to enhance the lifestyle of the community. The conference will provide an opportunity for the participants to exchange novel ideas and new research development information in the field of urban planning, urban design, real estate and property development. To share experiences and explore science, methods, tools, analysis as applied to these studies.

Call For Papers

SCOPE

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Urban design as Social Innovation
• Knowledge-driven Planning process
• Curating the City
• Sustainable cities
• low carbon precincts
• Tools and Techniques for Mobilisation of Land for Urban Development
• Incentives to promote Residential Development
• Affordable Housing as part of Public Policy
• Development of Slums
• Urban Design
• Real Estate Development
• Urban Form
• Urban Landscape
• Transportation
• Urban Morphology
• Urban morphological theory
• Urban morphological methods and techniques
• The evolution of urban form
• Agents of change
• Revisiting urban morphological classics
• Multidisciplinarity in urban morphology
• Comparative studies of urban form
• Integrated approaches
• Teaching urban form
• The relations between research and practice
• Small towns, networks and mobility
• Small town and land issues
• Urban systems and hierarchies
• Emerging towns: genesis and history
• Role of politics, role of spontaneous urbanisation
• Small town economy
• Small towns and sustainable development
• Design Management and Professional Practice
• Spatial and Environmental Design
• Public Transport
• Geopolitics
• Place-making Strategies
• Entrepreneurial cities
• Workforce development at the local level
• Effectiveness of supply v. demand-side economics in
• Economic development strategy
• The impending change to automatic driverless vehicles portends shifts in cities and towns
• Innovative reduction of travel and parking lanes
• Adaptive reuse of parking lots and public garages
• The personal car as an asset for its commercialization
• Implications for the movement of freight without breaks, and the delivery of merchandise more quickly; loss of jobs
• Increased fuel consumption and air pollution
• Innovations in transit
• Bus & Rail Rapid Transit
• Uber & Lyft
• Reintroduction of the street car [rail]
• Building codes as revised to counter natural disasters and human attacks
• Emergency management plansImportant Dates
  Full Paper Submission Deadline (Extended): 20 April 2018 Early Bird Registration Deadline: 22 June 2018 Late Registration Deadline: 20 July 2018 Conference Dates: 22 - 23 October 2018

  *Author registrations that are completed AFTER the Late Registration Deadline may not be included in the Conference Proceedings.

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  UPPD CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

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