New paradigms of urban life: proximity, well-being in cities and territories

New paradigms of urban life: proximity, well-being in cities and territories

The international conference explores how our cities are changing and what new paradigms will define urban life in the 21st century. Starting with an introductory speech on the value of time, proximity and quality of life, the programme brings together prestigious experts national and international from urban planning, architecture, economics, mobility, sustainability, artificial intelligence, cultural heritage and new ways of living.
During the thematic sessions, key challenges such as climate adaptation, the city of recovered time, the economy of proximity, human mobility and the future of urban intelligence in the transformation of our territories will be analysed.
This event is particularly significant, as it is the last major conference on the theme of the CNAPPC’s 2021-2026 council. It also represents a milestone in the strategic action taken by the CNAPPC and its Scientific Committee in support of the Urban Regeneration and Law currently under consideration by Parliament. We are particularly proud to actively contribute to the development and progress of this legislative proposal, which embodies a renewed commitment to a more sustainable, inclusive and proximity-based urban future.
The conference proposes a comprehensive approach to building more humane, resilient and liveable cities, where proximity, social cohesion and everyday well-being become the new compass for contemporary urban planning. The meeting culminates in a renewed vision of a new urban humanism that will inspire policies and projects for decades to come.

The Regional Science Academy (TRSA) Manifesto on Climate Change and the new wellbeing society

Guidelines and Actions for COP30, Belém, from an Urban and Regional Perspective
Editors: Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp

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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.

PlanetEarth_Netzero20250#. Viaggio al centro della sostenibilità

PlanetEarth_Netzero20250#. Viaggio al centro della sostenibilità

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.

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