Miguel Anxo Fernandez Lopes has been mayor of Pontevedra, Galicia, for 30 years, where he has focused everything on social policies by abolishing cars in the city center and betting on slow tourism.
Regenerating territories, building equity
Giuseppe Cappochin
From proximity to proxilience: rethinking urban health in the 21st Century
Carlos Moreno
Adaptive architecture for a changing world
Carlo Ratti
Guidelines and Actions for COP30, Belém, from an Urban and Regional Perspective
Editors: Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp
On October 28th and 29th, the conference “The Wealth of Nations and the Wellbeing of Places” was held at the Auditorium of the Institute of Applied Social Sciences in Belém, Brazil. The event sought to discuss sustainable development in the Amazon region, focusing on global well-being and the well-being of nations in anticipation of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in the Amazon-Belém-Pará region of Brazil.
The opening panel discussion was attended by Prof. Dr. Marcelo Nazareno Vallinoto de Souza representing the Magnificent Chancellor of UFPA Prof. Dr. Gilmar Pereira de Souza, Prof. Dr. Fernando de Assis Rodrigues as Interim Director of the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Prof. Dr. Márcia Jucá Teixeira Diniz (PPGE/UFPA) and Prof. Peter Nijkamp (WSKZ).
For the discussions, mediated by Professor Karima Kourtit, speakers from different countries were invited, such as Professor Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. In addition to him, Prof. Peter Nijkamp (WSKZ), Prof. Dr. Carlos Roberto Azzoni (FEA-USP), Prof. Dr. Marcelo Bentes Diniz (PPGE/UFPA), Prof. Dr. Cláudio Castelo Branco Puty (PPGE/UFPA), Prof. Dr. Cláudio Castelo Branco Puty (PPGE/UFPA), Prof. Carlos Moreno (IAE Paris-Sorbonne), Prof. Luigi Fusco Girard and Francesca Nocca (University of Naples Federico II), Prof. Catherine Gall (Sorbonne/Paris) and architect Giuseppe Cappochin (CNAPPC, Italy).
We also had the participation of researchers Jaewon Lim (University of Nevada), Matteo Colleoni (CNAPPC Scientific Committee), Martijn Burger (Erasmus University), Peter Dzupka and Oto Hudec (Košice Technical University), Sasa Drezgic and Petra Zaninovic (University of Rijeka), Thomas Doxiadis and Yannis Psycharis (Panteion University), Karlem Khachatryan and Ani Khalatyan (Yerevan State University), Mohamed Makhtari (University of Fez), Aleksandra Siewert, Mehmet Ömürlü and Waldemar Ratajcza (WSKZ) and Xufeng Zhu (SPPM-Tsinghua).
At the end of the event, we invited state Congresswoman Lívia Duarte (PSOL) to read the Regional Science Academy Manifesto and deliver it to the authorities in charge of COP30.
Andrea Marcel Pidalà
Francoangeli, Milano, 2025
The book draws on the long journey of sustainability and is aimed at settled communities, social actors, designers, and new generations of scholars. The book offers an analytical and design framework geared toward the practicality of sustainability, with solid scientific and cultural foundations, experimenting with integrated approaches from the territorial to the building scale, following a “telescopic” perspective inspired by Giancarlo De Carlo.
