REAL CORP 2010

15th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information and Knowledge Society

Date: 18-20 May 2010
Venue: Reed Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria

Cities for Everyone – Liveable, Healthy, Prosperous
Promising vision or unrealistic fantasy?

Cities are places of competition, stress, inequalities, traffic jams, environmental stresses and strains and permanent struggle. Cities often are an aggressive environment, not only for children, the elderly and the weak. But on the other hand cities are centres of economy, culture, creativity, science and innovation and therefore provide excellent perspectives and a lot of chances for many people – cities are attractive places! Meanwhile more than 50 percent of world population lives in cities, soon it will be about 70 percent.

The CORP conference has been held each year since 1996 and is now Europe's biggest congress on urban development and information society. About 400 experts from around the world will come together in Vienna to discuss the latest topics in urban planning, regional development and information society. Speakers will represent private companies, research institutions and universities. Public administration will also participate. The main topic is life in the cities of tomorrow and related problems that should be solved by spatial planning, science and economy.

REAL CORP 2010 asks for cities for everyone, that are liveable, healthy and prosperous. Is this a promising vision we should work on or is it an unrealistic fantasy? Is it possible to keep and even improve the advantages of cities and reduce the negative effects? Or does the one aspect require the other? What are the possibilities and contributions of urban planning and real estate development? How can ICT, urban, transport and environmental technologies help to improve quality of our life in cities? How is healthy life supposed to look like? What are perspectives for future transport and mobility? And how will ambient assisted living be realised in the urban context? All these topics and a lot of other questions will be discussed.

Further Information:
Verein CORP
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2320 Schwechat • Austria
Tel.: +43 (1) 892 85 02
Fax: +43 (1) 892 85 02-15
eMail: office@corp.at
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