Cities of the Future: Sustainable Urban Planning and Water Management
22-25 May 2011
Stockholm, Sweden
Website: www.cof2011stockholm.org
Submission of abstracts: 1 October 2010
Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2010
Submission of full papers: 15 February 2011
Today we are faced with an unprecedented set of issues that call for a change of approach to urban water management. Urban planners, policy makers and water managers must respond effectively and urgently to the impacts of climate change, population growth, growing resource constraints, rapidly increasing global urbanization and the importance of urban needs that create competition between regions and other water uses. These issues are complex and not subject to readily defined solutions because of the multiple and often competing values held by various stakeholders. The regulatory and policy settings do not adequately incorporate resource constraints or recognition of the challenges being addressedby the urban sector.
The objective of the conference is to highlight the need and benefits of integrating and emphasising water in the planning of European cities of the future.
The conference focuses on the intersection between urban spatial planning and the planning, construction and operation of sustainable urban water systems. The conference program will involve city planning and design (water centric cities, water as a design element or defining constraint in the urban setting, water for pleasure and well-being etc.), interaction with other infrastructure systems (biowaste, biogas, heating and cooling, transports, fibre optic communication etc.), the surrounding land (agriculture and food production, energy, aquaculture, recreation), as well as evolving technical and managerial solutions.
City planners and water managers will highlight the need for and benefits of considering water as a constraint and opportunity at an early stage in urban planning. Current research on city development will be addressed. Good examples from cities around the world will be demonstrated.
Themes:
- 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 in the transition to a city of the future.
- Innovative case studies from European cities.
- Governance aspects of integrating urban planning and water management.
Contact: Steve Moddemeyer
International Water Association
Email: smoddemeyer@collinswoerman.com
