12th International Contemporary Urban Issues Conference (CUI) is a conference that covers topics such as:
- 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
12th International Contemporary Urban Issues Conference (CUI) might be held in Nov 2024.