Next Generation Infrastructures

[i]Third Annual Conference on Next Generation Infrastructures[/i] November 11-13, 2010 Shenzhen, China June 1, 2010 Submission of Full Papers The third annual conference on Next Generation Infrastructures will deal with infrastructures for eco cities. Shenzhen is a city in the position and with the ambition to become a global eco city and is open to a wide range of ideas. Eco-cities are cities designed with consideration of environmental impact, inhabited by people dedicated to minimisation of required inputs of energy, water, food and waste output to create the smallest possible ecological footprint. There is an enormous surge of academic and professional attention devoted to eco-cities, but what types of infrastructures do they require to become viable in practice? Developing a new generation of energy, transport, ICT, water and waste disposal infrastructures is a complex and challenging task that requires creativity, perseverance, audacity and dedication. This is even more true when we consider the trend for different types of infrastructures to converge in terms of practical applications, such as with mobile smart grids where energy, IT and transport networks are connected. Generating such new opportunities requires important conceptual and organisational efforts, since these will not come about automatically. Call for papers www.infrastructuresforecocities.com