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<p class="MsoNormal">Thought this Urban Global Global Summit might be of interest…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Abstracts invited:
</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.urbantransitionsconference.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Urban Transitions
Global Summit 2016</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Urban Transitions Global Summit 2016</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"> (5-9 September 2016, Shanghai, China) will highlight the latest research and practice
towards developing an urban future that is more economically competitive, sustainable and resilient, equitable and inclusive, and digitally supported.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">This major new conference will be cross-sector and cross-discipline and is designed to bring together global leaders in policy, academia, technology and business to stimulate debate and
provide a basis for new interconnected ways of thinking to shape the future direction of our cities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Contributions are invited by
<b>3 March 2016</b> for oral and poster presentation alongside <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">12 high-level invited keynote speakers, including:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Suparno Banerjee, Vice President, HP; Global Leader HP's Smart City Initiative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">The co-chairs are Karen Seto at Yale and Darren Robinson at Nottingham.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">The multi-stream conference programme will comprise nearly 150 oral presentation slots, workshops,
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">panel debates
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">and a large poster session</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"> organised around four themes:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Economically competitive urban futures
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Sustainable and resilient urban futures
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Equitable and inclusive urban societies
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Digitally supported urban futures</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Excellent publication opportunities</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"> are offered in an
Open Access format in Elsevier’s <em><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Procedia Engineering</span></em> or
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Procedia Environmental Sciences</span></em>.
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<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">For full information visit:
<a href="http://www.urbantransitionsconference.com/">http://www.urbantransitionsconference.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">#UTGS2016</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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