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The European Commission has proposed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and set Europe on a responsible path to becoming climate neutral by 2050 while advocating for an inclusive future (EU climate action and the European Green Deal, 2019). Climate commitments by national govern...

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ISOCARP Doha World Congress Abstract Harvard GSD: Spiro Pollalis, Gareth Doherty Harvard SPH: John Spengler, Wendy Purcell Liverpool University ArCHIAM: Soumyen Bandyopadhyay Urban Economy Forum: Reza Pourvaziry, Anantha Krishnan Ardalan Associates: Nader Ardalan DOHA VISION 2050: Sustainable Urbani...

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Amidst a global health and climate crisis, practitioners, decision-makers, researchers, and community members within the urban planning field are urged to rethink urban development across the globe. Experience suggests that decision-making processes need to be both inclusive and timely in order to r...

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For the Forum: Territorial Climate Action Planning Forum We are all familiar with the numbers of future urban populations and the related need of sustainable urban and regional development. Our globalizing world is confronting researchers, planners and implementing organizations with increasing comp...

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Port city regions are key locations in the post-oil transition and merit specific attention from planners. Located at the edge of water and land, ports are gateways to nations and continents, they are industrial and often petroleum hubs with important negative externalities for the neighboring urban...

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Sharing the experience of an Arab nation that is innovating its urban planning process through tools that facilitate the drafting, assessment, and monitoring of Master Plans and strategic initiatives or programs against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Palestine, like other developing nation...

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This session will discuss the possibilities of creating healthy built environments that encourage physical activities of citizens. Currently noncommunicable diseases are one of the most serious threats to people, but some of the factors can be managed by staying physically active. The way that citie...

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The climate crisis requires immediate system-level transitions in urban areas. Transportation and mobility constitute a significant contributor to current challenges (e.g., GHG emissions, local air pollution, resource/land consumption, traffic fatalities, spatial inaccessibility/injustices). Working...

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Oman is a country of stunning beauty and close-knit communities, which has decided to embrace its own path towards development: actively participating in a globalising world and at the same time strongly advancing its own culture, identity and way of life. As part of this drive, in the spring of 202...

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Nairobi remains one of the world’s most intractable urban capitals, despite or as a result of a century of planning efforts. Development plans for the East African capital have been developed, repeatedly and sporadically, since 1898. Their implementation has been piecemeal and incomplete. These pl...

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The purpose of this special session is to expand urbanism to think beyond the obvious of “above ground”, and amplify the future of cities, which is impossible without integrating the subsurface into the urban fabric. The field of underground urbanism is still emerging. At the same time, cities a...

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Rapid urbanisation often results in a uniform infrastructural development, which compromises on liveability. Commercially mass-produced building materials and designs largely dominate the urban fabric. This generates not only low quality of life, but also compromises meeting the Paris Agreement, whi...

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In this workshop, municipal planning policy and governance challenges in addressing and implementing new technologies for small to mid-size cities will be explored. Attendees will be introduced to current technology innovations impacting cities, from e-scooters, to autonomous vehicles, to metadata c...

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Uniform urban development severely compromises the quality of life in cities. As a result, cities lose on valuable socio-economic opportunities. Qatar was one of the countries that took leadership and delved into an alternative development model. As a result, Msheireb Properties, a subsidiary of the...

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Placemaking is an approach to planning, design and management of public spaces that uses local community's assets to create vibrant public places. It aims to improve health, happiness, and well-being in cities. Placemaking accelerated in the 1960s, when designing cities for people rather than for ca...

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Technology companies are planning with governments in African cities to construct and advance smart city technologies. In Egypt, the government is already planning for 20 smart cities where digitized infrastructure, services and planning will be implemented. With the advent of Covid-19, prospects fo...

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