The Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Property Development (UPPD) serves as a platform for academics, researchers, scientists, consultants and policy makers to interact and discuss how to improve urban planning and property development in order to enhance the lifestyle of the community. The conference will provide an opportunity for the participants to exchange novel ideas and new research development information in the field of urban planning, urban design, real estate and property development. To share experiences and explore science, methods, tools, analysis as applied to these studies.

Call For Papers
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Urban design as Social Innovation
Knowledge-driven Planning process
Curating the City
Sustainable cities
low carbon precincts
Tools and Techniques for Mobilisation of Land for Urban Development
Incentives to promote Residential Development
Affordable Housing as part of Public Policy
Development of Slums
Urban Design
Real Estate Development
Urban Form
Urban Landscape
Transportation
Urban Morphology
Urban morphological theory
Urban morphological methods and techniques
The evolution of urban form
Agents of change
Revisiting urban morphological classics
Multidisciplinarity in urban morphology
Comparative studies of urban form
Integrated approaches
Teaching urban form
The relations between research and practice
Small towns, networks and mobility
Small town and land issues
Urban systems and hierarchies
Emerging towns: genesis and history
Role of politics, role of spontaneous urbanisation
Small town economy
Small towns and sustainable development
Design Management and Professional Practice
Spatial and Environmental Design
Public Transport
Geopolitics
Place-making Strategies
Entrepreneurial cities
Workforce development at the local level
Effectiveness of supply v. demand-side economics in
Economic development strategy
The impending change to automatic driverless vehicles portends shifts in cities and towns
Innovative reduction of travel and parking lanes
Adaptive reuse of parking lots and public garages
The personal car as an asset for its commercialization
Implications for the movement of freight without breaks, and the delivery of merchandise more quickly; loss of jobs
Increased fuel consumption and air pollution
Innovations in transit
Bus & Rail Rapid Transit
Uber & Lyft
Reintroduction of the streetcar [rail]
Building codes as revised to counter natural disasters and human attacks
Emergency management plans


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UPPD CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF)
10 Anson Road, International Plaza,
Singapore 079903
Email: secretariat@urban-ppd.org
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Fax : +65 6327 0162