Conference Theme: ‘Quality of Life and Environment’ In the last decades, quality of life has become a central issue for those who plan and study cities or places where people live in response to growing pressures on urban communities, concern about the impacts of urbanisation and the effects...

More than half of humanity now lives in cities, and every month there are 5 million new city dwellers. A number of powerful forces are shaping this new phase of urbanization – escalating population growth, the rise of China and India, new connected technologies and pressures on both our...

The conference will be organized around the following themes: - Preconditions for sustainable development (economically, socially and environmentally) in European regions, - the role of universities in the promotion of regional development, - sectoral specificities (resource based and...

Topics: - Water as a quality in the urban landscape – for liveability, well-being and profit - Water-centric cities in; planning and design – why and how? - Integrating water services with energy production and use of nutrients for agriculture - Addressing the dilemma of aging infrastructure...