Cities
Land, Best Paper Award
The Land Best Paper Award Committee selected the research paper “Net Zero Energy Districts: Connected Intelligence for Carbon-Neutral Cities” as the Second prize of the Land 2022 Best Paper Award. The committee determined the award based on an overall evaluation of the papers’ originality and significance, considering citations and downloads. Six [...]
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Call for Papers, Technovation Special Issue
Digital Platforms, Generative AI, and the Future of Territorial Innovation Systems: Navigating the New Landscape of Intelligence and Innovation Technovation Special Issue Call for Papers Territorial innovation systems are considered the driving force behind the development of cities and regions, explaining the capacity of certain territories to propel and incubate [...]
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Smart Cities Series Elsevier: books published
Launched in 2017, the smart cities book series publishes a collection of insights into the diverse constitution of smart cities. In collecting these insights, the series publishes research, which improves both theory and practice of smart cities and transfers the knowledge acquired to scholars, policymakers and practitioners alike.
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Digitally Disrupted Space, by Anastasia Panori
Digitally Disrupted Space: Proximity and New Development Opportunities for Regions and Cities, by Anastasia Panori, has just been published by Elsevier Smart Cities Series. The book develops an analytical framework of the digital space structural elements and their impact on existing spatial interactions at the urban and regional levels. The [...]
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Climate City Contract of Thessaloniki
The Climate City Contract was signed on September 8, 2023, by 24 organizations that endorse and support the 2030 Action Plan for Climate Neutrality of Thessaloniki and the vision of the city towards net zero emissions. Thessaloniki’s pathways towards climate neutrality cover various sectors:
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Innovations for Sustainability and Climate Neutrality: Towards a European Model
URENIO Research introduces a new Topical Collection in Discover Sustainability on Innovations for Sustainability and Climate Neutrality: Towards a European Model. Discover Sustainability is a Springer Nature open-access journal within the Discover Series, publishing research across all fields relevant to sustainability, and with an Impact Factor 2.6 (2002). The journal [...]
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HCI International 2024 session “Intelligence Reimagining Innovation Ecosystems”
HCI International 2024, jointly with the affiliated Conferences will take place at the Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington DC, USA (29 June – 4 July 2024). URENIO Research organises, in framework of DAPI, the virtual session “Intelligence Reimagining Innovation Ecosystems”. The session highlights the substantial shifts in urban and regional innovation ecosystems, [...]
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Is the New Economic Geography still Alive in 2023? Smart Algorithmic Places and AI Systems
Organized within the framework of ERSA 2023 Congress, this event is a collaborative effort between the Regional Science Academy and Paul Krugman, Peter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit, and Yongda Yu. The day’s agenda features three paper sessions encompassing a total of ten papers, a special session dedicated to the scientific significance [...]
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Twin Transition and changing patterns of spatial mobility
MOBI-TWIN, a Horizon Europe project dedicated to unraveling the dynamics of spatial mobility under the digital and green transition and its significant impact on European Union regions. The project aims to comprehend the intricate patterns of mobility and leverage this knowledge to foster regional governance and prosperity.
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Call for papers: Redefining cities and planning under the twin smart and green transition
This special issue of LAND, an open access journal, centers around the ongoing transformation of cities and planning in response to the concurrent digital and green transition. The digital (or smart) transition is a major driver of the current transformation of cities and refers to the application of smart systems, [...]
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