Prospective authors are invited to submit papers covering basic and applied research. The conference constitutes a forum for presenting and discussing recent advances in all areas of urban design and planning, and in particular:

Accessibility
Aesthetics
Animation and Modelling
Architecture, Civil and Municipal Engineering
Background
Benchmarking Systems and Schemes for Best Practice
Building Envelopes and Innovative Façade Systems
Circles of Sustainability
City Planning
City, Community and Building for Resilience
Civil Society
Climate Change Impact on the Built Environment
Climate Change Versus Sustainability
Community and Land Use Planning
Community Governance
Continuity and Change
Cultural Heritage and Eco-Tourism
Design for Sustainability
Design Paradigms
Design with Nature
Eco-Design and Eco-Friendly Development
Ecological, Social and Cultural Sensitivity
Eco-Mobility: Sustainability in Transport
Economical Viability versus Sustainability
Eco-System and Biodiversity
Emergent Urban Patterns
Energy Use and Management
Governance and Local Planning for Sustainability
Governance Structures and Resource Management
Green Building (case studies)
Green Development and Construction Systems
Housing and Economic Development
Housing Renewal and Design
Incorporation of Nature within a City
Indicators of Sustainability
Land Use
Landscape Architecture
Landscape Urbanism
Legibility and Wayfinding
Legislative Empowerments for Sustainability
Low Energy Architecture
Modern Urban Design
Municipal Land-Use Strategies
New Urbanism
Parameters of Sustainable Urbanism
Principles of Intelligent Urbanism
Principles of Urban Design
Process Modeling
Public Space
Retrofitting the Existing City
Smart and Bioclimatic Architecture
Strategic Urban Design
Sustainability Assessment of Cities and Districts
Sustainability in Developing Countries
Sustainability Opportunities and Challenges
Sustainable Housing and Compact Urban Neighborhoods
Sustainable Renovation and Restoration
Sustainable Urban Design
Sustainable Urbanism.
Sustainable Vernacular Architecture
Theory and Principles of Eco-City, Philosophy in Practice
Traditional Neighbourhoods Design/Neotraditional Design
Transferring Good Practice in Sustainable Development: Implication for Governance
Transit-Oriented Development: Health and Walkability
Urban Built Environment
Urban Design
Urban Planning
Urban Design Movements
Urban Ecology
Urban Economics
Urban Environment
Urban Heat Island
Urban Informatics
Urban Performance
Urban Planners and Architects
Urban Planning and Urban Design for Sustainability
Urban Poverty
Urban Sprawl
Urban Structure
Urban Sustainability
Urban Sustainability and the Move to Low Carbon Development
Urban Transformation
Urbanization
Water-sensitive Urban Design
Whole Life Assessment
Whole Life Thinking
Whole Life Urban Sustainability and its Assessment
Zero-Carbon & Low Energy Housing and Mixed-use Development