ISOCARP has endorsed the Urban Jewish Heritage: Presence and Absence Event Date: September 3-7, 2018 Location: Krakow, Poland The event is organised by the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage and the Foundation for Jewish Heritage, in association with the City of Krakow and Villa Decius Association, we invite abstracts of 300 words to be…

Following the well-established tradition of recognising the most prominent achievements in the broad field of spatial planning, in 2018 ISOCARP will bestow the three category awards: Awards for Excellence, open to a wide range of professionals and institutions operating in the domain of urban and regional planning; participants are invited to submit different tools used…

Smart Sustainable City planning and design are vital to implementation of the New Urban Agenda’s vision of a sustainable future. Smart urbanism merges information and communication technologies; energy, resource and infrastructure technologies into networks that create sustainable, resilient, regenerative, urban-rural ecosystems with vibrant communities, thriving economies and biodiverse environments. ISOCARP organised the World Urban Forum…

One of the training events at the WUF9 was “UAVs, Land Use Planning and Community Engagement: The Potential of Drones to Implement the New Urban Agenda”. The event was organised by the Special Interest Group in Urban Settlement (SIGUS) affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Researchers presented…

The Global Alliance for Urban Crises (GAUC) is a global, multi-disciplinary and collaborative community of practice. It is a ‘network of networks’ working to prevent, prepare for and effectively respond to humanitarian crises in urban settings. The humanitarian landscape is changing. Urbanisation is defining our global reality and will shape our future. Displacement, conflict and natural…