We are pleased to announce and invite you to participate in the 19th International Conference
on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM), which will be hosted
by The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London on
23–27 June 2025. The CUPUM 2025 website is: cupum2025.org. Find out more about the 30-
year history of CUPUM here: cupum.co. Please submit via our conference submission page.

Conference Theme
For more than thirty years, Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM)
has been at the leading edge of international debates around the role of computing technologies
in shaping and managing cities. In 2025, CUPUM will return to London on the theme of 'Cloud
Cities'.

The Third Industrial Revolution made London famous for its ‘pea souper’ fog, when airborne
particulates from the burning of coal in factories and houses made it, perhaps, the original
Cloud City. Today, amid a mooted transition from a Fourth to a Fifth Industrial Revolution,
industry and society – in London but also globally – are still roiled by clouds. While
contemporary Cloud Cities remain characterized by persistent social, environmental and
economic inequalities, cloud-based services and technologies — including AI — have been held
out as part of the urban management solution to these issues.

Cities built in the clouds often combine physical and digital space in novel ways – the metaverse
meets the digital twin – but questions of who owns our data, and to what purpose, sit at the core
of continuing debates around everything from optimizing transit systems and housing
production, to monitoring remote workers and ambient air pollution. The conference and
accompanying book welcomes debate around all aspects of the social, economic,
environmental and managerial challenges facing modern cities as we head further into a new
cloud-based era of human development.

Topics
We invite submissions on a range of topics related to the use of computers in urban planning
and urban management. These may relate to technical aspects, practical considerations,
applied case-studies, theoretical discussions or anything in between. Example topics may
include (but are not limited to):
● Urban Models and Simulations
○ Land-Use Transportation models
○ Agent-Based models
○ Cellular Automata
○ Network models
○ Microsimulation
○ Space Syntax
● Urban Planning and Management
○ Digital Planning
○ Digital Twins
○ National, Regional and Local Governance
○ Collective Intelligence
○ Public participation
○ Scenario Planning
● Connected Environments
○ Sensors
○ Networked computing
○ Cloud Technologies
○ Communications Infrastructure
● Planning Support Science and Geodesign
○ Planning Support Systems
○ Geographic information science
○ Serious games
● Urban Data
○ Datastores / data lakes
○ Data Standards
○ Data linkage
○ Open data
● Artificial Intelligence (AI)
○ Use of LLMs
○ Advances in Machine Learning / Deep Learning
○ Natural Language Processing
● Visualization and Communication
○ Dashboards
○ 3D visualization
○ Augmented and Virtual Reality
○ Metaverse/Virtual Worlds
● Urban Analytics
○ Transport Systems
○ Housing Systems
○ Urban Ecology
○ Urban Economics and Economic Geography
○ Urban Demography
● Critical and theoretical engagement with any of the above

Submission Options
Participants have a choice of three submission options (all submissions will be peer-reviewed):
1. Book Chapter (4–6,000-word submission + oral presentation at CUPUM 2025)
2. Short Conference Paper (1,500 word extended abstract + oral presentation at CUPUM 2025)
3. Poster (250-word abstract + attendance at poster session(s) at CUPUM 2025)

Please submit via our conference submission page.

At least one co-author must register for, and present the chapter or paper at, the conference. All
submissions of proposed book chapters, short conference papers or posters should be written
in English and include an abstract that contains a title together with a brief description of the
proposed topic, methods used, key results, and some discussion of the research implications
for urban planning and urban management. All submissions also should be accompanied by the
name, affiliation and email address of each author. For co-authored papers, one individual
should be identified as the presenting/corresponding author.

Option 1: Book Chapter
We will continue the CUPUM tradition of publishing a book in conjunction with the conference,
our 7th. Around 25 chapters will be selected for inclusion in a book, tentatively to be published
by Springer in time for the conference. These chapters will be selected based on the outcomes
of a double-blind peer review process overseen by the book co-editors. Chapters not accepted
into the book will be invited to be revised and resubmitted as conference papers (see below).
Chapters should be 4,000 to 6,000 words in length, including notes and references. Please
count each figure and table as 250 words towards the total length. Chapters need an
abbreviated abstract (max 250 words) covering the introduction, methodology, main
findings/conclusions, and recommendations. Inclusion of the paper as a chapter in the book
implies acceptance of a publishing agreement which requires a copyright agreement with the
publishers. Accepted book chapters will be given an oral presentation slot at the conference.
We recommend that book chapter submissions use Springer’s Word template for book
chapters. See this page for other style guidance. References should use Springer Nature’s
Basic Style.

Option 2: Standard Conference Paper
Standard Conference Papers require the submission of a max 1,500 word extended abstract
using the submission template provided here. Extended abstracts will be peer reviewed and
successful submissions published online in a conference proceedings repository, separate from
the book above. Papers not accepted will be invited to revise and resubmit as posters (see
below).

Option 3: Posters
Poster submissions will require a short 250 word abstract which will be peer reviewed.
Successful submissions will be invited to upload full digital posters prior to the conference to be
included in our virtual poster session. Poster delegates are also invited to bring physical posters
if they so wish. At the conference, the poster sessions will accommodate display of posters up
to A0 in size (841 x 1189 mm, or 33.1 x 46.8 inches) - a template is provided here. We won’t
have capacity to print posters locally.