| Austria |
The City of Vienna and its Best Practices Centre, collaboration between UN-HABITAT and the metropolis plans to hold an event on 5th of October to discuss this year’s topic ‘Planning our urban future’. An exhibition is to be held between September 2009 and end of October with the title: In Zukunft Stadt (In the future, the city).
The second part of the event will be dedicated to presenting Best Practices examples and to promote the call by UN-HABITAT to submit Best Practices examples for the Dubai International Award for Best Practices in Improving the Living Environment and the UN-HABITAT Best Practices database. |
| Belgium |
The European Parliament will host an all day event featuring statements from key representatatives of the Parliament, the European Commission, the European Union Presidency and the Committee of Regions. Roundtables will be held on urban planning policy and addressing the challenge of climate change to build sustainablecities. The parliament will also show a three day exhibitionm, including exhibits from UN-HABITAT, from 5-8 October 2009. Full programme
The International Union of Tenants plans to observe the World Habitat Day/International Tenants Day on October 5, in Brussels Belgium, in the European Parliament. Just like last year, the IUT intends to highlight affordable housing, and this year the focus will be on housing and the effect of the global financial crisis. |
| United Kingdom |
The International Art & Architecture Research Association (IAARA) is hosting a two day meeting to discuss issues relating to energy use in cities as part of this year’s WHD celebrations. This multi-dimension event is being organized by hosted by the University of Westminster. Known as “Human Habitation”, the event will focus on the topic of architecture, settlement and urban identity of the Persian Gulf Region, an area that covers some of the most ancient civilizations in the world, by presenting research conducted in this region on an international conference stage. This event will also feature an exhibition in combination with the conference. The themes of both the conference and exhibition are: Climate and Comfort, Architecture and Settlement as well as Identity and City.
Some of the speakers lined up include:
- Nader Ardalan
- Nabil Hamidi
- Soheil Masri
- Susannah Hagan
- George Katodrytis
- Steve Caton
- Omar Khattab
- Peter Sharrat
- Tim Makower
- Saleh al Hathloul
- Teddy Cruz
- Reza Pourvaziry
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