A Tomorrow for Cities:
IFHP Centenary Congress 2013

London, UK
IFHP | International Federation of Housing and Planning
TCPA |  Town and Country Planning Association

To celebrate 100 years of operations, IFHP will host a series of events in 2013 including a special Centenary Congress in London!
The Centenary will deal with the need for a new thinking about the present and future development and planning of human settlements. The activities planned for the Centenary aim at creating opportunities to share, discuss and develop solution-orientated knowledge for a better urban future. We also aim to involve more actors in the challenges facing the urbanised world. 
The Centenary Congress will be held at UCL ,with events and venues throughout the city, including East and Central London.





MAIN THEME
The IFHP Centenary Congress takes a retrospective and prospective view of cities, asking what tomorrow holds for human settlements, how the future of cities can be shaped, and what solutions are required to establish the sustainable societies of tomorrow (the route to Sustainia?).  Cities are constantly changing, forever in transition from one state to the next. Tomorrow's cities need to be resilient to environmental risks and able to withstand economic shocks.  They must be inclusive in terms of how they are governed and planned, becoming places in which social justice shapes the physical and economic fabric. 

SPECIFIC THEME
• Cities in Transition
Cities are in constant transition, often facing huge changes in their physical fabric, in their economies and amongst their resident populations. Some cities are experiencing huge growth and face the challenge of expanding and adapting infrastructure provision, including the provision of housing.  
• Resilient Cities
The idea of resilient cities captures the idea that human settlements must be adaptable to changing conditions, not only economic and environmental conditions and of course climate change, but also a new social complexity generated by the coming together of different groups and different values in urban settings.
• Inclusive Cities
This final theme is about civic leadership, about diversity in cities and about accommodating needs and recognising the rights of individuals, of families and of communities. Building the inclusive city involves political empowerment, fostering sustainable economies and seeing 'city building' as a social project as much as an exercise in physical development.

TRACKS
• The challenge of Urban Growth / Healthy Cities
• Shrinking Cities
• Regenerating the City
• Environmental Risk and Climate Change
• Building Sustainable Urban Economies/Green Growth Leaders
• Social Change, Inequality and Conflict
• The Spontaneous City/Creative Communities
• Civic Leadership and Governance
• Ownership, Rights and Social & Economic Justice in the City

FOR MORE INFORMATIONS AND CONTACTS 
Congress Website 
IFHP Congress Website
IFHP 2013 CENTENARY