By definition, smart and sustainable planning for cities and regions strives for digital innovation and the adoption of disruptive and clean technologies, while contributing to long-term environmental protection, developing new value propositions and adding to social justice.
SSPCR 2019 focused in supporting the ‘transposition’ of research into practice and visionary approaches into (planning) policies and tools, to be applied by local authorities and decision-makers in an urban and regional context.
The conference explored the impact of academic research, the scaling-up and replicability opportunities of pilot projects, and the added value of local bottom-up initiatives, in relation to complex challenges posed by the smart city/region approach.
During the 2019 edition, researchers and experts
Discussed how cities and regions are evolving into living labs, i.e. open innovation ecosystems
Explored processes and procedures of co-creation, which integrate public, private, research and civil society actors
Contributed to the conference’s overall aim of shaping means of increasing the quality of life in smart cities and smart regions
Proceedings
19 contributions have been included in the open access volume Smart And Sustainable Planning For Cities and Regions 2019. The proceedings are available for here.
The second, non-open access volume includes 42 contributions and is available here.
Together, the two volumes contain 61 research papers on smart urban and regional development, ranging from cutting-edge energy technologies to innovative social practices or advanced business models.