Time: June 5-6, 2015

Venue: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

June 5: Room 106, WenyuanBuilding,CAUP

June 6: D3 Auditorium, Building D, CAUP

Organizers:

College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology

Sino-U.S. Eco Urban Lab 

Co-organizers:

Bayer Chair of UNEP-Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development，Urban Planning Forum, Urban Planning International, Time Architecture (TA), Modern Smart City 

Introduction:

        With the support of Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges of Ministry of Education, CAUP (College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University) is sponsoring“International Urban Design Symposium (Shanghai):2015 International Symposium on ecological Urban Design” in June 2015, to promote urban design as an important pathway to obtain urban sustainable goals.

  The International Symposium on Ecological Urban Design in 2015 focuses on the design of urban metabolism, a theoretical model of sustainable future urban system that is urgently needed for rapid urbanization processes in China and elsewhere around the world. The symposium is organized by the Sino-U.S. Eco Urban Lab, an international urban design research platform jointly developed by Tongji University and Georgia Institute of Technology. It gathers scholars, practitioners and policy makers from China, the U.S. and other countries to explore cutting-edge theory and prompting issues of ecological urban design, sustainable urban systems, resilient city, healthy city and smart urban infrastructure, as well as urban space utilization and urban space operations management.