05 November - 06 November 2018, University of East London, London, United Kingdom

INTRODUCTION: Urban regeneration is defined as the rehabilitation of land areas that are subject to high-density urban land use. It is a strategy that aims to transform and renovate areas to be upgraded in housing, public and private buildings, infrastructure, and services. This entire process is an effective way to improve urban performance by targeting areas with a high incidence of poverty, pollution, and congestion leading to complete economic and regional development of a specific area.

Urban Regeneration Program is only proven to be successful when sustained. This program largely impacted many urban landscapes and affected the history and demographics of cities around the world. As a result of its successes, urban regeneration is now known as the attempt to reverse declining cities by improving physical structures through new urbanization models and more importantly, enhancing the economy of those cities. These new urbanization models must be highly enduring systems that prove sustainability, which is reached by covering all aspects of the four interconnected domains: Ecology, Economics, Politics, and Culture.

Today, the process of urbanization still continues to generate many problems deriving from the drift of the population towards highly populated cities. These problems can be resolved by cities becoming efficient habitats, saving resources in a way that improves the quality and standard of living. The process however, faces a number of major challenges, related to reducing pollution, improving main transportation and infrastructure systems.

CONFERENCE PURPOSE: This conference will be a chance to find solutions for those problems to optimize the use of space and energy resources leading to improvements in the environment, i.e. reduction in air, water and soil pollution as well as efficient ways to deal with waste generation. It is a fertile ground for architects, engineers, city planners, social and political scientists, and other professionals able to conceive new ideas and time them according to technological advances and human requirements.

CONFERENCE TOPICS:
1. Green buildings role in preserving the environment
2. Green infrastructure and designing with nature
3. Alternative energy: Source of solar energy power and renewable energy
4. Energy efficiency in the built environment
5. Production and regeneration in regional development
6. New Urbanism models
7. Sustainable spaces and places of living, working and recreation
8. Urban heat islands' effect and pollution
9. Large cities planning and innovation future
10. Monitoring and assessment tools: building regulation and performance evaluation
11. Waterfront developments and coastal communities
12. Industrial area agglomeration and cooperation strategies
13. Population and future urban expansion
14. Sustainable landscape and procurement
15. Housing and economic development
16. Strategies for new cities proposals in developing countries
17. Landscape, gardens, streetscapes and urban biodiversity
18. Formulating the principles of green Urbanism
19. Sprawled areas and sustainable development
20. Public involvement in communities' development

IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 5, 2018
Full Paper Submission Deadline: September 10, 2018
Last Notification for Full Paper Acceptance: September 28, 2018
Payment Deadline: August 30, 2018
Letter of Visa (for delegates who need visa entry): September 4, 2018
Conference Program: October 5, 2018
Conference Launch: November 5-6, 2018

PUBLICATION: The conference proceedings will be published in full in the "ARChive" International Journal of Science and hosted on SSRN by ELSEVIER.

Publication in the ‘Springer’ will only be applicable to the selected papers that will be supervised by highly professional members of an International Editorial Board to ensure a high-quality publication material. Thus, such outstanding material will lead to indexing of the series in well-known indexing databases such as Scopus and Thomson Reuters.

*For the selected papers to be published in "Springer", another revision process will be added to the selected manuscripts.

AUTHOR'S INSTRUCTIONS: Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results, and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.

A maximum of a 300-word abstract is to be reviewed.

Please submit abstracts at: https://hq.ssrn.com/conference=URS-2018

Authors will not be able to revise their submissions during the conference review process. Please contact Cami Decker (cami@ssrn.com) if you must revise your submission during this time or have any questions about revisions.

After you have received the acceptance of your abstract, please continue to write your full paper with the requested template.

CHAIRPERSON: Professor Dr. Hassan Abdulla, Dean, School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London (UEL)

GUEST EDITORS:
Dean Hawkes, Emeritus professor at Cardiff University and an emeritus fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge

Chaham Alalouch, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

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