The 5^th edition of the International Conference on “Urban Planning & Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD)” was held in collaboration with University of Florence, Italy, and took place virtually from the 8^th to the 10^th of Jul 2020, due to the travel restrictions caused by the pandemic.

The conference discussed all the aspects of the development and design of land use and the urban environment, including the planning of infrastructures such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.  concerns over climate change, clean air, and water, renewable energy, land use

Among the main topics discussed in the conference:

1-     Past and Future: City's Image and Preservation

2-     City Planning: Urbanization and Development

3-     Compact Cities Context at Low and High Densities

4-     Evolving Architecture and Rethinking Cities

5-     Art and Defining the City

Day 1:

Welcoming Session:

The Opening Ceremony started with the online registration and welcoming speeches from the Conference Chair.

First a Presentation about IEREK introducing IEREK as a company and its activities to the audience.

Following IEREK’s introduction, short welcoming speeches were given by the conference chair Professor.

First a Presentation about IEREK introducing IEREK as a company and its activities to the audience.

Following IEREK’s introduction, short welcoming speeches were given by the conference chair Prof. Francesco Alberti  , Department of Architecture (DiDA), University of Florence, Italy, the conference Keynote speaker ,Prof. Francesco Ferrini, Dean of the School of Agriculture of the University of Florence, Italy, the conference Keynotes speaker, Prof. Ferdinando Trapani, Associate Professor in Urban Planning, Polytechnics School at the University of Palermo, Italy, and the IEREK representative, Dr. Abdelaziz Sakr, IEREK representative and Previous General Director, Egypt, A Brief Introduction to IEREK.

Plenary session:

A plenary session followed introducing the first keynote speaker “Prof. Francesco Ferrini”. Dean of the School of Agriculture of the University of Florence, Italy. whose speech was entitled: “How Urban Forestry Can Help in Planning and Managing Future Green Cities for Human Health and Well-Being”.

Following the first keynote’s speech was the second Keynote Speaker Prof. Francesco Alberti, Professor at the Department of Architecture (DiDA), University of Florence, Italy, a speech entitled: “(Civic Design for Making Cities More Sustainable and Resilient)”.

After the second keynote speaker’s speech started the First Session of the conference entitled “Past and Future: City's Image and Preservation” which moderated by Professor Maria Rita Gisotti, University of Florence, Italy and Prof. Elena Tarsi, University of Coimbra, Portugal and Prof.Valeria Monno, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

The session had seven presentations before a short break.

Another seven presentations were discussed following the short break and concluded the first day of the Conference.

Day 2:

The second day of the conference started with the speech of the third keynote speaker Prof. Sridharan Namperumal, Director of the School of Planning and Architecture, BHOPAL. with a speech entitled: " URBAN EXODUS AND THE REVERSE CONUNDRUM "

After the keynote speech, the second Session started entitled: “City Planning: Urbanization and Development” which was moderated by Professor Prof. Francesco Alberti, University of Florence, Italy, and Prof. Maria Rita Gisotti, University of Florence, Italy And Prof. Elena Tarsi, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

The second session discussed Nine presentations before a short break.

Following the short break, the second session continued. And ten presentations were discussed, then concluded the second day of the conference.

Day 3:

The Third day of the conference started with the Third Session entitled: “Evolving Architecture and Reimaging Cities” which was moderated by Professor Prof. Valeria Monno, Politecnico di Bari, Italy, and Prof. Rosa Romano, University of Florence, Italy. The Third session discussed eight presentations.

Following the third session started the fourth Session entitled: “Urban Form and Sustainable Development”. The fourth session discussed six presentations.

A discussion and a Questions and Answers session followed, and the Conference was concluded by a Panel session where final remarks and feedback were discussed.

An International Conference from the Comfort of Your Own Home!

Due to the uncertainties and restrictions inflicted by the #COVID19 pandemic, and for everyone's safety following the Health Organization's recommendations, it is in everyone's interest to host the conference online. As pioneers of this movement, IEREK is proud to be hosting this conference online. IEREK believes that rather than giving in to this disease and stopping our progress, pushing forward is of utmost importance.

So, how can participating in an international Video Conference boost your career, future potentials, and experience?

• Obtain an internationally accredited certification of participation which could boost your future academic career opportunities.
• Save costs of travel & accommodation.
• Discuss your research paper online with professors, stakeholders, and other authors (Online Oral Presentation).
• Get the chance to publish your paper with Springer in the ASTI Book Series.
• Make sure that your paper will get the maximum exposure in front of a relevant audience, as we share samples of publications within our weekly newsletter and online platforms.

About the UPADSD 5th Edition:

The concept of sustainable development is now a requirement for metropolitan and urban planning which involves the development and design of land use and urban environment, including the planning of infrastructures such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks. Moreover, concerns over climate change, clean air and water, renewable energy and land use, continue to draw attention to sustainability and sustainable urban planning and the developmental strategies and practices that ensure habitable, self-sustaining communities.

For a city to grow into a sustainable city, it must be designed with consideration of the environmental impact, for example, decreasing traffic congestion and using sustainable materials in construction. A commitment to sustainable architecture encompasses all phases of a building including the planning, building, and restructuring. Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of today and doesn’t adversely affect the future generations. Sustainable urban planning involves many disciplines including architecture, engineering, environmental science, materials science, transportation, and technology among others. 

In this regard, IEREK organizes the 5^th edition of the International Conference on Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development which follows the success of the previous editions in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019 to discuss the concept of sustainable development and the different approaches that have become essential to modern development and energy efficiency. The UPADSD conference will be a great opportunity to improve your knowledge, career and to meet researchers, professors, architects and urban planners from all over the world.

Selected papers of the conference will be published in a book series under the title of Advances in Science, Technology, & Innovation (ASTI) by Springer which will be submitted for indexation in Scopus databases.

Conference Session Moderators:

Francesco Alberti

Professor at the Department of Architecture (DiDA), University of Florence, Florence Italy.

Rosa Romano

Senior research, Architecture Department, DIDA, University of Florence, Italy .

Maria Rita Gisotti

Associate Professor, Architecture Department (DiDA),University of Florence, Italy.

Elena Tarsi

Senior Researcher,Centre for Social Studies (Centro de Estudos Sociais,University of Coimbra, Portugal).

Valeria Monno

Associate professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building and Chemical Engineering, at the Politecnico di Bari, Italy.

• 1. Past and Future: City's Image and Preservation

  1.1: Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Tourism
  1.2: Biomimetic Approaches to Architectural Design for Expanded Sustainability
  1.3: Social Feedback and User's-Oriented Development
  1.4: Waterfronts and Community Planning
  1.5: Historic Conservation, Management and Restoration

• 2. City Planning: Urbanization and Development

  2.1: Urban Spaces, Society and its Culture
  2.2: Urban Sprawl, Borders and Greenbelt
  2.3: Built Environment: Impact and Approaches
  2.4: Sustainable Solutions in Rising Countries
  2.5: Rural Developments and Urban Growth Limitations

• 3. Compact Cities Circumstance at Low and High Densities

  3.1: Compact City Debate: A Universal Aspect.
  3.2: Dense Cities in Developing Countries: Analysis and Inference
  3.3: The Regional Dimensions of the Compact City Debate
  3.4: The Need for Compact Evolution in Rapid Growing Zones
  3.5: Compact Policies for Megacities: Core Areas and Metropolitan Regions

• 4. Evolving Architecture and Reimaging Cities

  4.1: Public Transportation Planning and Sustainable Networks
  4.2: Public Involvement in Sustainable Development
  4.3: Future Challenges for Contemporary Cities
  4.4: Infrastructure, Facilities and Systems: New ICT Technologies and Sustainable Economy
  4.5: Environmental Planning and Natural Resources Management

• 5. Art and Defining the City

  5.1: Intersection of Public Art and City Planning
  5.2: Art Integration in Urban Morphology
  5.3: Arts, Culture, Identity and Creative field formulation
  5.4: Urban Culture: Cities Exchange their Experiences
  5.5: A Look inside Art and Inventive Spaces

Instructions

- Each research paper should have one main author who should pay the full fee (Author fees) regardless of attendance.

- Each co-author (1-5 max) has his/her own separate fees to pay as shown in a table below.

- A research paper fee allows only one author, whether main or co-author, to attend the conference and receive only one copy of the conference proceedings book in both hard and soft copies. Extras can be requested for a fee shown below.

Conference Fees:

Delegates in any event who cancel their registration due to special circumstances will receive refunds according to the following:

For IEREK's Provious Publications, Please Click here

- Urban planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD) held in Lecce of Italy in October, 2015.

Elsevier

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Special Issue: Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD)

Publication Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/216?sdc=1

- Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD) – 2nd Edition held in Palermo Italy in October, 2017.

Springer

Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI) Series.

Urban and Transit Planning

(Selected Papers) Publication link: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030173074

IEREK Press

The Academic Research Community Publication (ARChive)

Vol 2, issue #1 (2018): Urban Planning and Transport

Publication link: https://press.ierek.com/index.php/ARChive/issue/view/13/showToc

- Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD) – 3rd Edition held in Cairo, Egypt in December, 2018.

IEREK Press

The Academic Research Community Publication (ARChive)

Vol 3, issue #2 (2019): Recent Studies in Urban Sustainability and Future Cities' Planning

Publication link: https://press.ierek.com/index.php/ARChive/issue/view/32/showToc

- Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD) – 4th Edition (Online Conference) in November, 2019.

Springer

Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI) Series.

Advanced Studies in Efficient Environmental Design and City Planning

Publication link: (In Progress)

Elementary Review:

Once an abstract has been submitted to our website, it is assigned for review by the reviewers using the abstract review sheet and validation of publication. This is based on four criteria:

1. Accepted as is for publication (with minor editing changes).

2. Conditionally accepted for publication (with revisions provided to authors).

3. Rejected but encouraged for re-submission with major modifications.

4. Rejected as inappropriate or unworthy of publication in this certain conference.

The criteria for accepting abstracts for the conference are as follows; a relevant topic of the conference should be proposed with clear writing, aims, and objectives of the study clearly presented as well as a sound literature and methodology of work.

First Acceptance:

Authors will receive a notification message to know the feedback of the reviewers' committee. If an author receives the acceptance of his or her abstract, he or she has to continue writing the full-length paper using the requested templates.

Uploading Full-Length Paper:

Authors who are allowed to upload their full-length paper(s) should use the same account details to upload their full paper(s).

Second Acceptance:

The final paper will proceed to the primary revision to be checked if it meets the conference proceedings standards. Once it gets accepted, the author will be informed to pay the fees so that it could be sent for the final revision by the scientific committee.

Payment:

In this step, and to proceed paper(s) that passed to final revision process and to get the final approval, authors have to pay the requested fees. Otherwise, the final revision process will not be considered for their papers.

Inspections and Final Approval of Full Papers:

The full papers that paid the requested fees will get finally inspected, either scientifically or linguistically. There will be a rigorous review process of full papers following the previous process according to the following criteria:

(1) Is the topic relevant to the conference?

(2) Are the writing and structure clear?

(3) Are graphics, photos, illustrations used where needed?

(4) Are the aims of the study clearly stated?

(5) Are the objectives of the study achieved?

(6) Is the literature review relevant and adequate?

(7) Has the author used the appropriate methodology and explained them clearly?

(8) Has the author interpreted the findings correctly?

(9) Is the paper a significant contribution to the field?

These are the registration and revision procedures for publication that all authors should follow.

Authors are respectfully requested to abide by the following steps/instructions in order to participate in the "Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development 5^th Edition" international conference and get their papers published...

Step 1: Abstract Submission

- Author (researcher) should submit an abstract file (paper summary) through our online system before the abstract submission deadline.

- Submitted abstract should not exceed 300 words.

- The abstract should clearly state the purpose, results, and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.

- You should choose the most relevant topic to your paper from the conference topics.

- Abstract file should include the author's full name, email address, academic title and affiliation.

- Abstract file should include Co-authors' full name, email address, academic title and affiliation. (if exist)

- The author can use/download abstract writing template to submit the abstract file accordingly (please download from the link provided below).

Step 2: Abstract Review

- Once abstract is submitted abiding the mentioned instructions, it will be sent to undergo revision process by members of our scientific committee, the author will receive abstract feedback and next step action by email within 2 weeks maximum from abstract submission date.

- Once the abstract is accepted, the author will receive abstract acceptance notification by email stating that the abstract is accepted and to proceed with full/short paper submission.

Step 3: Paper Submission

- The author should submit the full/short paper written on the writing template, through our online system before the paper submission deadline (please download the writing template from the link provided below).

- The full/short paper should be written in English as it's the official language of the conference "Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development 5^th Edition".

- The full paper file shouldn't exceed 12 pages while short paper shouldn't exceed 5 pages.

- The full paper should state the major issue(s) addressed, the potential significance of the work, the theoretical and methodological approach(es) pursued, major findings, conclusions, implications, and relevant scholarly references.

- The short paper should clearly mention the major issue(s), methodological approach(es), major findings, conclusions, and relevant scholarly references.

- The full/short paper must be relevant to the conference theme and must be original as we don't accept research papers with similarity rate of more than 20%.

Step 4: Paper Elementary Review

- Once the full/short paper is submitted abiding the mentioned instructions, it is assigned for review by the reviewers of scientific committee in aligning with IEREK revision SOP (double-blind process).

- The author will receive paper feedback and next step action by email within 1-month maximum from paper submission date.

Step 5: Payment

- Once the paper gets accepted, the author will be informed to pay the conference fees so that it could be sent to another 2 members of the scientific committee in order to provide the author with comments/notes that could improve the paper and push it to the limits.

- As soon as payment is confirmed and done successfully, corresponding official documents can be issued from our side such as paper acceptance letter and invitation letter.

Step 6: Paper Final Review

- The paper will be sent for review by another 2 members of the scientific committee in aligning with IEREK revision SOP (double-blind process). Reviewers' comments/notes will be forwarded to the author in order to modify the full paper accordingly. Then, send us the final version of the paper.

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Instructions of Short Paper Submissions: Authors whom like to submit short papers should be informed that the structure of a short paper should contain its abstract, keywords, introduction, problem statements and the hypothetical solution along with further studies that they will go through when they want to extend their paper to be published online. A short paper fee doesn’t have a chance to receive any type of discount whatever the authors was previously published with IEREK or the author is one of IEREK’s scientific committee and or a representative of a co- host university. A short paper is only published in the conference proceedings book and will not have a chance to be published online by Springer or by IEREK’s Journals unless the author extends their work to a full length paper and pay the requested fee.

To download Abstract Writing Template,  Click Here

To download Paper Writing Template,   Click Here

- IEREK has an unyielding policy regarding plagiarism. We believe that copying/taking the ideas and work of other Authors without permission and credit, is fraudulent.

- The Reviewing committee and IEREK employees have the authority to reject a paper during its reviewing process,  on the basis of the paper being subjected to either minor or major plagiarism.

- Duplicating any content, even if it is one sentence or one table without the consent of its original Author, will lead to the paper’s refusal upon the complaint of the plagiarism victim.

Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation Book Series
IEREK Series for Interdisciplinary Studies

Springer:

- On 10 May 1842 (his 25th birthday), Julius Springer founded his bookstore and publishing house in Berlin, laying the foundation for today’s company.

- After 175 dynamic years, the name Springer stands for a globally active publisher dedicated to the advancement of science, putting its authors and editors at the heart of the company’s publishing activities.

- Springer is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality content through innovative information, products and services.

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About the Series:

Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI) is a series of peer-reviewed books based on the best studies on emerging research that redefines existing disciplinary boundaries in science, technology, and innovation (STI) in order to develop integrated concepts for sustainable development. The series is mainly based on the best research papers from various IEREK and other international conferences or direct submissions and is intended to promote the creation and development of viable solutions for a sustainable future and a positive societal transformation with the help of integrated and innovative science-based approaches. Offering interdisciplinary coverage, the series presents innovative approaches and highlights how they can best support both the economic and sustainable development for the welfare of all societies. In particular, the series includes conceptual and empirical contributions from different interrelated fields of science, technology, and innovation that focus on providing practical solutions to ensure food, water, and energy security. It also presents new case studies offering concrete examples of how to resolve sustainable urbanization and environmental issues. The series is addressed to professionals in research and teaching, consultancies and industry, and government and international organizations. Published in collaboration with Springer, the IEREK Interdisciplinary Series for Sustainable Development will acquaint readers with essential new studies in STI for sustainable development.

Publication:

Publishing your paper with a reputable and renowned publisher is necessary to maintain the high quality standards of the scientific process along with retaining your copyright. It is even more advantageous to increase the exposure of your paper to the rest of the scientific community either online, offline, or in both versions.

All of the papers present in the book either belong to the best research papers in IEREK’s conferences or the authors’ direct submissions.Fees for direct submission: - The revision process: 200$ (nonrefundable)- Once the paper is accepted and approved: 200$.

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