CALL FOR PAPERS

Medellin is now a dynamic city with many

industries and excellent transport and public
facilities. It has been called a model for
economic development. In 2013 Medellin was
chosen as the most innovative city in the world
and continues to attract considerable foreign
investment and tourism. Medellin is now one of
the safest cities in Latin America.
The city is renowned for its cultural life,
including universities and other academic
institutions, one of the most important of them,
the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana.
Dairo Correa

Location
The Conference will take place at the
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Campus,
located in the city of Medellin.
Colombia has experienced remarkable
development in the last few years and
Medellin, the second largest city in the country
with a population of more than three million,
has benefited the most from this.

Submission Information
Papers are invited on the topics outlined
and others falling within the scope of the
meeting. Abstracts of no more than 300
words should be submitted as soon as
possible.
Abstracts should clearly state the purpose,
results and conclusions of the work to
be described in the final paper. Final
acceptance will be based on the full-length
paper, which if accepted for publication
must be presented at the conference.

Conference Venue
The Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana has
its main campus in Medellin, where the
conference will take place. It has more than
20,000 members amongst students and staff,
with a substantial number of Master and PhD
programmes.

SUSTAINABLE
CITY
2015

10th International Conference on Urban

Regeneration and Sustainability

Its Schools of Engineering and Architecture,

amongst others, are internationally renowned
and involved in many research initiatives
which are coordinated through the Integrated
Centre for Research Development. The
Centres objective is to act as a mechanism
for knowledge transfer between academia and
industry, providing as well consulting services.
The Schools of Engineering and Architecture
are located in the main campus where the
conference will take place. The campus is set
in an attractive part of town.

Conference Secretariat

1 3 September 2015
Medellin, Colombia

The language of the conference will be

English.

Rachel Van Loock

rloock@wessex.ac.uk

Organised by

Online submission:
wessex.ac.uk/city2015

Wessex Institute
Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst
Southampton, SO40 7AA, UK

Wessex Institute, UK

Email submission
imoreno@wessex.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 238 029 3223

Fax: +44 (0) 238 029 2853

Sponsored by

Submit your abstract with Sustainable

City 2015 in the subject line.
Please include your name, full address and
conference topic.

For more information visit:

wessex.ac.uk/city2015

International Journal of of Sustainable

Development and Planning

Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia

ADVANCING INTERNATIONAL
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

wessex.ac.uk/city2015

Benefits of Attending
The 10 International Conference on Urban Regeneration and
Sustainability (Sustainable City) will be held at the Universidad Pontificia
Bolivariana in Medellin, Colombia. The University is named in honour of the
South American Liberator Simon Bolivar.
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This Sustainable City meeting follows a series

of successful conferences starting in Rio de
Janeiro in 2000 and regularly held since then
in different locations throughout Europe and
Asia. The meetings always attract a substantial
number of contributions from participants
from different backgrounds and countries.
The variety of topics and experiences is one
of the main reasons behind the success of the
series. The dynamic growth of Colombia and in
particular the rapid development of Medellin,
which has recently been designated the most
innovative city in the world, led to its choice
as the venue for the Sustainable City 2015
conference.
Urban areas result in a series of environmental
challenges varying from the consumption
of natural resources and the subsequent
generation of waste and pollution, contributing
to the development of social and economic
imbalances. As cities continue to grow all over
the world, these problems tend to become
more acute and require the development of
new solutions.

dynamics of urban systems, exchange of

energy and matter, and the function and
maintenance of ordered structures directly
or indirectly supplied and maintained by
natural systems. The task of researchers,
aware of the complexity of the contemporary
city, is to improve the capacity to manage
human activities, pursuing welfare and
prosperity in the urban environment. Any
investigation or planning on a city ought
to consider the relationships between the
parts and their connections with the living
world. The dynamics of its networks (flows
of energy matter, people, goods, information
and other resources) are fundamental for an
understanding of the evolving nature of todays
cities.
The Sustainable City Conference addresses
the multidisciplinary components of urban
planning, the challenges presented by the
increasing size of the cities, the amount of
resources and sources required and the
complexity of modern society.

The challenge of planning sustainable

contemporary cities lies in considering the

Conference Chairmen
W Florez-Escobar
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia
C A Brebbia
Wessex Institute, UK

International Scientific Advisory

Committee
M Ali
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
A Aminmansour
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
R Barelkowski
West-Pomeranian University of Technology /
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
C Booth
University of the West of England, UK

Cover Image Seth Pipkin

P Canelas de Castro
University of Macau, China
J Diaz
Consultant, Peru
S Garcia-Ayllon
UPCT, Spain
N Marchettini
University of Siena, Italy
J L Miralles i Garcia
Polytechnic University of Valncia, Spain
N Quaranta
National Technological University, Argentina
R Rojas-Calderas
Universidad Autonoma de Baja California,
Mexico
S S Zubir
Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Conference Proceedings Papers presented at

Sustainable City 2015 will be published by WIT Press
in Volume 194 of WIT Transactions on Ecology and the
Environment (ISSN: 1746-448X Digital ISSN: 1743-3541).
WIT Press ensures maximum worldwide dissemination
of your research through its own offices in Europe and
the USA, and via its extensive international distribution
network.
Delegates will have the choice of receiving the conference
book as either hard cover or digital format on a USB flash
drive. The USB flash drive will, in addition, contain papers
from previous conferences in this series.

Conference Topics
Planning, development and
management
The community and the city
Urban strategies
Architectural issues
Cultural heritage issues
Landscape planning and design

Indexing and Archiving Papers presented at Wessex

Institute conferences are referenced by CrossRef
and regularly appear in notable reviews, publications
and databases, including referencing and abstracting
services such as SCOPUS, Compendex, Thomson
Reuters Web of Knowledge and ProQuest. All conference
books are archived in the British Library and American
Library of Congress.

Urbanization of rural areas

Digital Archive All conference papers are archived

online in the WIT eLibrary (http://library.witpress.com)
where they are easily and permanently available to the
international scientific community.

Intelligent environments

Journal Papers After the conference, presenters

at Sustainable City 2015 will be invited to submit an
enhanced version of their research for possible publication
in the International Journal of Sustainable Development
and Planning published by the Wessex Institute.
Reviews Abstracts and papers are reviewed by members
of the International Scientific Advisory Committee and
other experts.
Open Access Open Access allows for the full paper to
be downloaded from the WIT eLibrary archives, offering
maximum dissemination.Authors who choose this option
will also receive complimentary access for one year to
the entire WIT eLibrary.
Networking Participants can present their research and
interact with experts from around the world, becoming
part of a unique community.
Reduced Fee for PhD Students The Wessex Institute
believes in the importance of encouraging PhD students
to present and publish innovative research at their
conferences. As a result, the Institute offers PhD students
a much reduced conference fee.

Environmental management
Sustainable energy and the city
Transportation
Waste management

Quality of life
Infrastructures and social
services
Sustainable urban tourism
Planning for risk and natural
hazards
Case studies

Citations When referencing

papers presented at this
conference please ensure that
your citations refer to Volume
194 of WIT Transactions on
Ecology and the Environment
as this is the title under which
papers appear in the indexing
services.