Following on from the “Housed by Choice, Housed by Force” conference in Cyprus last year, this international meeting welcomes sociologists, planners, architects, and policy makers to discuss the planning, social and political issues around communities and housing in urban contexts.

Conference: Cities, Communities and Homes: Is the Urban Future Livable?

Place: Derby.  Dates: 22 – 23 June 2017. 
Abstracts: 01st March 2017

http://architecturemps.com/derbyconference/

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Themes:
This conference explores how the three issues of city development, sense of community and housing need, all combine to make lives in our cities livable – or not. Delegates will present design models for new urban environments; proposals for strategic modifications to existing city infrastructures; critiques of planning policy at local, national and sub-regional levels; and case studies of new towns from across the world. 

This urban focus is linked to questions of community and housing through contributions from participatory designers, sociologists, housing professionals and house designers operating at scale. 

Reflecting these three strands, the conference is an ideal opportunity for planners and urban designers to critique their own work in the context of analysis offered by colleagues from other sectors. It also offers excellent opportunities to exchange ideas with colleagues from our own field. In each case, the aim is to share ideas on how to make our cities livable in the 21st Century. 

Organisers:
This specific event is organised with the University of Derby.

The series is organised by a collection of UK publishers and universities including: The University of Derby, The University of the West of England, London South Bank University Liverpool and John Moores University, UCL Press and Libri Publishing. It is coordinated by the UK non-profit research organisation AMPS as part of its engagement with the UN Habitat University Initiative.

http://architecturemps.com/uk-events-2016-2018/

Keynotes:
Keynotes from European Council of Spatial Planners and Royal Town Planning Institute. Other keynotes from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal institute of British Architects, National Housing Federation, and more.