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IURC-China Thematic Webinar: Urban Planning on Innovation District

Leveraging distinctive economic, physical, and leadership assets to grow and cultivate, innovation districts have been emerging in dozens of cities and metropolitan areas globally and helping transform distinct urban geographies into thriving boosters for sustainable development. Introduced by the city of Barcelona in 2000, the 22@district is a new strategy enabling the connection between the local and international communities by...

“New Green Possibilities” International Online Forum

In the context of the Bangkok Design Week 2021 hosted by the Creative Economy Agency (CEA), the International Urban and Regional Cooperation (IURC) programme of the European Union and we!park, a partner of the Green Bangkok 2030 initiative of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), will organise a series of activities aimed at advancing dialogue and multi-stakeholder cooperation on green urban...

DRIA 2021

The Designing Resilience in Asia (DRIA) is an International Research Programme on urban and architecture resilience launched in 2014. The DRIA is a flagship initiative of the School of Design and Environment of the National University of Singapore that aims to promote and foster a substantive research and discussion about innovative ideas and propositions towards the resiliency of Asian cities...

External event: Malaysia Low Carbon Cities Conference (MyL3C)

A special event focusing on the carbon footprint and its role in the post-COVID recovery of cities. Participation of the Malaysian Prime Minister, senior government officials and experts. Presentation by EU project “Support to the Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM)” in Malaysia. Details and registration here: https://thinkevent.eventsair.com/malaysia-low-carbon-cities-conference/myl3c/Site/Register?fbclid=IwAR1DWH3cDzg22GunUAuue7gvRUiOMaEhsltmmqvyZPZpr3IrifQkLKDB6pk

GIS+BIM Summer School Presentation by Sapienza University of Rome

DIGITAL TWIN FOR SUSTAINABILITY: INNOVATIVE INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS FOR DESIGN At the beginning of the 4th Industrial revolution, the advent of digitalization, innovative technologies and materials, and new construction techniques, have begun transforming the way that infrastructure, real estate and other built assets can be planned, designed, constructed and operated in order to create a more attractive, energy efficient, comfortable, affordable,...

Promotion Ceremony of Rome Garden and Culture & Tourism Exchange in IHE Yangzhou

HORTUS ROMANI IN CHINA: A ROMAN GARDEN AT IHE 2021 YANGZHOU The City of Yangzhou presented the opportunity to the city of Rome for the participation at the Horticulture Expo 2021. Hortus Romani and the Rome Pavilion are a synthesis of an architectural space integrated with vertical and horizontal green solutions that could represent the material and immaterial excellence of...

IURC-China Thematic Webinar: Green and Sustainable Buildings

Green and Smart Building represents the perfect integration to support the development of sustainable cities. Low Carbon Smart Buildings are the positive catalyst towards sustainability and, even more than energy and technology solutions. The use of vertical green and roof garden offer a great opportunity to change the image of the city toward a nature-based solution for a clean healthy...

From Reporting to Action: How “Voluntary Local Review” can amplify local sustainability?

Monday, 28 June 2021, 19:30 - 21:00 (JST) / 10:30-12:00 (GMT) In 2018 four pioneer local governments—Kitakyushu, New York, Toyama, and Shimokawa—presented their Voluntary Local Review (VLR) of progress towards achieving the 2030 Agenda. Ever since, the VLR movement has grown, with an increasing number of local and regional governments presenting their own VLR each year. Despite the unprecedented challenges...

MobiliseYourCity Global Forum

MobiliseYourCity member cities and countries across the world are taking action and demonstrating their commitment to transforming transport. On 25th June 2021, experts, practitioners, financing institutions and decision-makers will come together during the MobiliseYourCity Global Forum to provide answers to key challenges faced by cities on the way to sustainable mobility. They will discuss new opportunities for collaboration and some...

GTALCC Low Carbon Cities Webinar Series #4

Thursday, 17 June 2021, 3:00-4:30 p.m. GMT+8 (9:00-10:30 a.m. CEST) Net Zero: 2050 Low Carbon Spatial Planning In this 4th session of the Low Carbon Cities Webinar, curated by the GTALCC Project under UNDP Malaysia and the Ministry of Environment and Water (KASA), we’ll be taking a look at on the the topic of Spatial Planning in the context of...