Cities of the future:Sustainable urban planning and water management

The aim is to highlight the need for and benefits of integrating and emphasizing water in the planning of cities of the future. Urban planners, policy makers and water managers

must respond effectively and urgently to e.g. the impacts of climate change, growing resource constraints, rapidly increasing global urbanization and the importance of urban needs that address the competition between regions and other water users.

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 addressed by the urban sector.

Themes

• Water as a quality in the urban landscape

   – for livability, 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

The conference is very unusual in one respect: It will give you new experiences you can use right away. It is a four day event of continuous development enhancing knowledge and professionalism. The entire programme is a unit. All items are connected in order to give you the most of knowledge and finally a fresh working experience to bring back home.