Workshops
The following workshops took place in 2005:
Urban Science: Re-Negotiating the Boundaries between Science, Technology and Society, Manchester, United Kingdom, 13-14 January 2005. Chair: Simon Marvin. Report
Urban Knowledge for City-Making: Integrating Urban Science, Technology and Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, 17-18 February 2005. Chair: Henrik Nolmark. Report NEW
The following workshops took place in 2004:
European Cities in the EU: Social Fabric, Inequalities, Agency and Political Order, What Sort of European Society in the Making, Paris, France, 11-12 June 2004. Chair: Patrick Le Galès. Report
Urban Risks: Inequalities and Managing Uncertainities, Leipzig, Germany, 24-27 June 2004. Chair: Roger Keil. Report
Urban Civilization: Where Culture Meets Commerce, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-18 September 2004. Chair: Jiri Musil with Ludek Sykora. Report
Urbanization: From Yesterday to the Next Day, Milan, Italy, 22-25 September 2004. Chair: Guido Martinotti.
Final Conference
The Urban Science Forward Look final conference was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 26-28 May 2005. The results of this conference should be produced in a report considering the needs of society in the coming 5 to 10 years and specifying the research priority areas for the future. go to website
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