PLAN IT SMART
CLEVER SOLUTIONS FOR SMART CITIES

Final Programme (pdf)

Cities are the place of economic production, knowledge and innovation – together with connectivity, creativity and services. As cities are dense, they offer also high potentials for energy savings and low carbon economies. However, cities are also today confronted to several challenges: unemployment, segregation, climate change issues.

Our ISOCARP Workshop will focus on implementation of good practices, by listening first from leading companies from the private sector, and secondly by presenting solutions for cities elaborated by urban planners in interdisciplinary teams: the Urban Planning Advisory Teams program (UPAT) of ISOCARP.

The results of the presentations and discussions will be a contribution to the New Urban Agenda in Quito HABITAT III and presented by the General Assembly of Partners (GAP) under the ISOCARP Chair.

“Smart Cities” has become a widely used term for the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) into the processes of cities and the built environment, aiming to improve the integration of the physical assets as well as social and environmental capital. Fired by several rankings there seems to be a competition for the title of the “Smartest City”. This kind of hype raises a lot of questions that the workshop will deal with.

The focus of the workshop will be on the role on how to improve quality of life by using „smart technologies“, with a special focus on urban and transport planning.

Can we „Plan it Smart“ and find clever solutions for smart cities?

„Best Practices for sustainable cities – towards The City We Need 2.0“
1 June 2016 – 9.00 – 17.30

„Metropolitan Governance – Is regional development driven by technological aspects?“
2 June 2016 – 9.00 – 13.00

With the support of