CASA are pleased to announce and invite participation to the 19th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM), which will be hosted by The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London on 23 – 27 June 2025. Submissions can be made via the conference submission page.
CUPUM Conference Theme
For more than thirty years, Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) has been at the leading edge of international debates around the role of computing technologies in shaping and managing cities. In 2025, CUPUM will return to London to explore the theme of 'Cloud Cities'.
Topics
Submissions are invited on a range of topics related to the use of computers in urban planning and urban management. These may cover technical aspects, practical considerations, applied case studies, theoretical discussions, or anything in between. Example topics include (but are not limited to):
- Land-Use Transportation models
- Agent-Based models
- Cellular Automata
- Network models
- Microsimulation
- Space Syntax
- Digital Planning
- Digital Twins
- National, Regional and Local Governance
- Collective Intelligence
- Public Participation
- Scenario Planning
- Sensors
- Networked Computing
- Cloud Technologies
- Communications Infrastructure
- Planning Support Systems
- Geographic Information Science
- Serious Games
- Datastores/Data Lakes
- Data Standards
- Data Linkage
- Open Data
- Use of LLMs
- Advances in Machine Learning/Deep Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Dashboards
- 3D Visualisation
- Augmented and Virtual Reality
- Metaverse/Virtual Worlds
- Transport Systems
- Housing Systems
- Urban Ecology
- Urban Economics and Economic Geography
- Urban Demography
Submissions can also include critical and theoretical engagement with any of the above.
Submission Options
Participants have a choice of three submission options (all submissions will be peer-reviewed):
- Book Chapter (4–6,000-word submission + oral presentation at CUPUM 2025)
- Short Conference Paper (1,500-word extended abstract + oral presentation at CUPUM 2025)
- Poster (250-word abstract + attendance at poster session(s) at CUPUM 2025)
Draft chapters are due Friday, 11 October 2024.
Paper and Poster submissions are due Friday, 10 January 2025.
Download the guidelines here.
Registration to the conference will open in February 2025.
Links
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