Departments of Construction of all provinces and Autonomous Regions; Municipal Construction Committees and Related Departments; Sub- provincial Cities; Construction Committees of Cities Specifically Designated in the State Plan; Construction Bureau of XinJiang Production and Construction Corps; All Urban Planning Bureaus; Administrations for Protection of Cultural Relics; the Societies for Urban Studies; the Societies for Urban Planning; Municipal Planning and Designing Institutes; Colleges of Architecture and Urban Planning and all the related organizations and experts:

To thoroughly apply the Scientific Outlook on Development, guarantee the harmonious development between human and nature and the urban planning construction led by the concept of sustainable development., People's Government of Guilin Municipality, Chinese Society for Urban Studies, Chinese Society for Urban Planning, Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of Guangxi Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region will co-host the "2012 Conference on Urban Development and Planning" on June 12-13 in Guilin on the initiative of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, P.R. China. The 2012 conference takes “Livable, Low-carbon and Sustainable City Development” as its theme. In order to further the communication, paper collection will officially kick off. (Please refer to the conference notification or the official website for paper themes as well as paper Format Requirements )

The papers will be assessed by the Academic Committee and the qualified will be collected into the Paper Collection of the Conference as well as the Supplement to Urban Development Research.The deadline for the paper collection is May 18th, 2012. The approach to contributing:

Sending your e-paper (word version) to chinaplanning@163.com. Please name your mail subject with the selected theme and your paper title and write "Paper contribution"in the first line of the body part .

Themes for Paper Collection:

1. Green Transport, Public Transportation Priority and Urban Sustainability

2. Climate Change and Low-carbon Cities

3. Urban Digitalization Management

4. Wireless City and Urban Function Optimization

5. Eco-city Theories and Practices Worldwide

6. Renewable Energy, Distributed Energy and Eco-Cities

7. Carbon Abatement Technology and Eco-city Construction Practice

8. Planning and Design of Low-Carbon Eco-Cities

9. Low-carbon and Circular Economy and Industrial Development

10. Urban Infrastructure Planning, Ecological Environment Construction and Reform in

the System of Investment and Financing

11. Green Building and Eco-community

12. Urban Development and Eco-tourism

13. Protection and Renovation of Historic Districts

14. Eco-city Construction and the Function and Application of Its Indicator System

Organizing Committee: Zhou Li Zhao Li Sun Xiaoqing

Tel: 010-58933632 58933591

Fax: 010-58933632

E-mail: chinaplanning@163.com

Website: http://www.cityup.org

Microblog: http://weibo.com/cityup

Chinese Society for Urban Studies

April 18th, 2012

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