12th International Contemporary Urban Issues Conference (CUI)

  • 06 Dec 2024
  • Online Event

Description

Topics
  • Transportation, Planning and Local Administrations
    • Transportation and Economic Development at the Local Level
    • Transportation and Local Differences
    • Automated Driving and Smart Mobility
    • Urban Mobility
    • The promotion and integration of non-motorised modes
    • Investment in Transport Infrastructure
    • Assessment of techniques for the appraisal of major projects
    • Resilience to the effects of changes in the climate
    • Models to support Transport Planning and Policy
  • Rethinking Informality
    • Architecture of informality
    • Informality at Home
    • Self-Help housing & upgrading
    • Squatters / slums / shanties
    • Laws and regulations of housing construction
    • Gated communities
    • Immigrants and refugees
    • Daily life in between formal and informal
    • Urbanization and informality
    • Crime (association of crime with informality)
    • Place politics
    • Everyday resistance
    • Informality at Work
    • Survival strategies
    • Factors shaping informal economy
    • Informal economy and service sector
    • Sub-contracting (Multinational companies, public employment, etc.)
    • Immigration and informal labor
    • Globalization/localization effects on work
    • International division of labor
    • Alternatives to public services
    • Underground business networks
    • Informality in Theory
    • Street art / graffiti / musicians
    • Globalization/localization theories
    • The evolution of the concept in theory
    • "Culture of poverty"/ "myth of marginality"/ "quiet encroachment of the ordinary"/"mystery of capital"
    • Forms of Informality
    • Urban informality in popular culture
  • Economy, Inequality and Urban Space
    • Local Governments and Economy
    • Economic restructuring and economic crisis
    • Cities and Dynamics of economy
    • Equlity, inequality and urban space
    • Resistance and Urban Space
    • Role of the cities in the globalization process
    • Social Capital and Urban Land Use
  • Policy Matters and Political Transformations
    • Alternative ways of civic participation
    • Citizenship / immigration / informality
    • National public policies` strategies dealing with the informal
    • Decision making at the local/national levels
    • Informality and the `Right to the City`
    • Legal and institutional framework
    • The Role of the Local Governments on the Public Security
    • Social Policies to fight/support the informal
    • Politics and local elections
    • Coverage and Quality of Health Services
    • Instruments of NGOs and opposition
    • The policies, instruments and orientation of International Organizations like UN, WDB, ILO
  • Ecology and Urban Studies
    • Urban Green Space
    • Local Governments and Energy
    • Pollution and Industry
    • Ecology and built area - buildings, roads, drainage etc
    • Natural landscape/protective landscape - forest/wildlife ecology
    • Natural resources and urban planning
    • Rural Planning
    • Agriculture, Productive landscape - rural ecology
    • Water bodies - ponds, rivers
    • Street trees and home gardens
    • Urban ecosystems: Climate, soil, hydrology, species composition, population dynamics, flow of energy

More Details

Prices:
30 Euro (Estimated)
Exhibition:
No exhibition
Organizer:
East Mediterranean Academic Research Center - DAKAM
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Event Categories

Government & Global Issues: Municipalities & Urban Development, Social issues
Science: Geography, Humanities, Social sciences

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