Kaupunkitutkimuksen päivät

Jokela, S. (Chair)
Vahtikari, T. (Chair)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Membership of an organizing committee of a conference or seminar

Description

Head of the scientific committee responsible for organizing the Finnish Urban Studies Conference 2022 and a pre-excursion to Hiedanranta.

Period	27 Apr 2022 → 29 Apr 2022
Event type	Conference
Location	TampereShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Country of activity

Finland

Nature of activity

Scientific
Professional

Documents & Links

The theme of the conference was Sustainable Cities. Sustainability is a topical, multidimensional, and historically changing research topic. The sustainability of cities and city regions is key for solving future challenges. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and the percent of the global population living in urban areas is projected to increase to nearly 70% by 2050. Urbanization is connected to other broad developments, such as climate change, population growth, decreased biodiversity and growing societal inequality. Implications range from health effects to changes in ecosystems and the formation of people’s identities. Many sustainability challenges intensify in urban environments, so cities play an important role in solving them. Urban sustainability can be approached, for example, from the perspectives of environmental, economic, social, and cultural sustainability. In practice these dimensions are intertwined, which means that a transformation towards a more sustainable city requires systems thinking, as well as combining the perspectives of multiple disciplines. Also, urban imaginaries and analyses of the past play an important role in producing future possibilities and solutions.

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