13th International Contemporary Urban Issues Conference (CUI)

Key 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