Urban Planning to Enable Smart Cities 2018

Land use and urban planning influence our daily lives in many critical ways, determining from the miles we must travel to reach our workplaces, to our city's air quality.

The concept of Smart Cities has emerged as a new requirement which involves conceptual principles and practices as applied to land-use and urban planning. City after city is discovering that it pays to reform land use planning. Today, it is commonplace to find the terms “sustainable city” and “sustainable urban development” cited to denote intentions and paragons of political utopia and of land-use and urban planning practices considered to be innovative.

The mission of this session is to answer the following concerns.

• Whether sustainable development will be a factor in renewing land-use planning and if so, under which conditions?
• Can sustainable development help revitalize planning practices?
• Can sustainable development be used as a basis for revising urban and metropolitan planning?
• Have specialists in the field of land-use and urban planning re-examined their practices in light of sustainable development principles?
• What is the real scope of the urban sustainable development approach at each of the spatial scales (metropolitan, regional, medium-size cities, etc.)?