{"id":176,"date":"2018-10-05T08:51:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rarathemesdemo.com\/the-conference-pro\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:07:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cityplus2026-mjt.aegean.gr\/?page_id=176","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City+ is a research network on interdisciplinary urban studies. Its core members come from some world or Asia-leading universities such as University of Cambridge, Chengchi University, University College London, Delft University of Technology, University of Hong Kong, Polytechnic University of Milan, Tongji University, University of Oxford, and Zhejiang University. We have successfully organised seven annual international conferences in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Australia,&nbsp;and Japan, covering the themes of urban planning and design, smart cities and geographic artificial intelligence, urban development and governance, and future environmental city. As of February 2025, our conferences have already attracted more than eight hundred delegates from many leading universities and institutes across countries from all continents. It has demonstrated its potential to be a good platform for sharing research experiences and thinking, developing cooperation opportunities, and addressing urban concerns from an interdisciplinary perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>City+ Annual Conferences<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>City+2017@Cambridge, University of Cambridge, the UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City+2018@London, University College London, the UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City+2019@Delft, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City+2021@Milan, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City+2022@Canberra, Australian National University, Australia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City+2023@Perth, Curtin University, Australia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City+2024@Kitakyushu, University of Kitakyushu, Japan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City+2025@Oxford, &nbsp;University of Oxford, the UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>City+2026@Mytilene, University of the Aegean, Greece<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>City+ Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yongping Zhang (Chair), Zhejiang University, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mengqiu Cao (Co-chair), University College London, The United Kingdom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhifu Mi (Co-chair), University College London, The United Kingdom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tianren Yang (Co-chair), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lorenzo Ceccon, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frank Chuang, Chengchi University, Chinese Taipei<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mingjie Dai, City University of Macau, Macau, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yiru Jia, Beijing Forestry University, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yang Liang, Guilin University Of Electronic Technology, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhicheng Liu, University College London, The United Kingdom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Annalisa Rollandi, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fred C. Sanders, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yang Song, King\u2019s College London, The United Kingdom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yongze Song, Curtin University, Australia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Haiyun Xu, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Juan Yan, Tongji University, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huajie Yang, City University of Macau, Macau, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peiheng Yu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pengcheng Zeng, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Qinfeng Zhao, Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University, China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tuyu Zhou, SGS Economic &amp; Planning, Australia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City+ is a research network on interdisciplinary urban studies. 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