Best Paper Awards

The following five papers were awarded:

Section A

[A001] Where's Wally? In Search of Citizen Perspectives on the Smart City
by Vanessa Thomas, Ding Wang, Louise Mullagh and Nick Dunn

Section B

[B002] Sustainable Urban Design: A Study in the Emissions Impact Related to the Choice of Urban Typologies and Construction Process
by Antonio Ángel Rodríguez Serrano and Santiago Porras Álvarez

Section C

[C006] An Introduction and Comparison Study of Beijing's Green Belts' Implementation Modes
by Nawei Wu

Section D

[D004] Comparative Analysis of Material Criteria in Green Certification Rating Systems and Urban Design Guidelines
by Jungwon Yoon and Jiyoung Park

Section E

[E012] Innovation for Low-Rise Construction in the Urban Tropics: Utilization of Structural Bamboo for Cost-Efficient Housing
by Corinna Salzer and Clara Camarasa

International Review Panel

Dr. Anguelovski, Isabelle; Prof. Bekkering, Henco; Prof. Bruyns, Gerhard; Prof. Chang, Shenglin Elijah; Dr. Chelleri, Lorenzo; Dr. Dalisa, Giacomo; Prof. Dickhaut, Wolfgang; Prof. Frantzeskaki, Niki; Prof. Hofert, Karin; Dr. Hui, Xiaoxi Sebastian; Prof. Junge, Ranka; Prof. Kim, Jun-Hyun; Prof. Kim, Lee-Hyung; Prof. Kim, Sungah; Prof. Kriznik, Blaz; Prof. Leoni, Francesco; Prof. Liu, Jian; Dr. Luethi, Christoph; Prof. Maydl, Peter; Prof. Mestre Martínez, Nieves; Prof. Neumann, Maik; Prof. Ostermeyer, York; Prof. Park, Cheol-Soo; Prof. Porras, Santiago; Prof. Rieh, Sun-Young; Prof. Sabaté, Joaquim; Prof. Santoso, Jo; Prof. Schuetze, Thorsten; Prof. Sohn, Saehyung; Prof. Stoy, Christian; Prof. Tieben, Hendrik; Prof. Tosi, Maria Chiara; Dr. Tunas, Devisari; Prof. Van Dorst, Machiel; Dr. Wang, Vivienne; Prof. Wolfram, Marc; Dr. Wriege-Bechtold, Alexander; Prof. Yoo, Uoo Sang; Prof. Yoon, Dong Keun; Prof. Zhang, Ye; Prof. Zhu, Wenyi.

True Smart & Green City?

True Smart & Green City? is the title of the 8th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) that will take place from 22–24 June 2015 in the city of Incheon, Republic of Korea.

This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage issues related to recent insights and advances in the 5 conference topics:

1. True Smart & Green Urban Society
2. True Smart & Green Urban Economies
3. True Smart & Green Urban Planning and Governance
4. True Smart & Green Urban Design and Visions
5. True Smart & Green Urban Technologies and Infrastructure Systems

The conference will encourage both theoretical and practical debates surrounding environmental, economical, and social contexts.

Subject

Achieving sustainability and resilience of urban environments is a key challenge of our time. Limited availability of resources as well as the need for adaptation to the effects of a changing climate and urban environments are increasingly questioning the sustainability and resilience of urban environments and infrastructure systems.

The majority of the world cities are confronted with similar and comparable challenges, including for instance increases in resource consumption, mobility demand, pollution, urban sprawl, social inequities, erosion of fertile topsoil and depletion of ecosystems. However, specific basic conditions, as well as the individual context and level of urbanization and development require specific approaches and strategies to achieve sustainable urban (re)development, resilience and to cope with the problems encountered with the implementation of such strategies.

On the one hand, during the last decades many different approaches, methods, technologies and systems have been developed to facilitate the realization of true smart and green, thus sustainable and resilient urban environments. On the other hand, green and smart infrastructures and technologies applications are increasingly defined and controlled by powerful individual players, such as government institutions, developers, consultants, industries, NGOs, and academic institutions, using “green” and “smart” as marketing instruments, attributes, tools or masquerades to cover and “green wash” conventional development programs. Operations of green and smart projects are often partial organized, self-centered, and isolated. Accordingly, significant changes needed on macro levels can hardly be found. For examples in the academic area, knowledge about green is generally not integrated in the major courses but is understood as an "extra, additional matter", similar with other subjects of "Capita Selecta".

The conference True Smart & Green City? will focus on the question how smart and green concepts, systems and interventions could truly constitute to the construction, management, operation and maintenance of sustainable and resilient urbanities, in the framework of both new urban developments and the transformation of existing urban environments.

Questions to be discussed in the framework of the conference are also:

• How to define and how to differentiate between real sustainable and fake green elements?
• How can ‘smart’ concepts, systems and interventions really contribute to the improvement of quality of life, urban resilience and sustainability?
• How can real and fake smart and green elements be differentiated on the levels of conception, design, and realized projects?
• What should be done (e.g. politically, and institutionally) by the city or national government to promote truly smart and green transitions?
• What could architects, planners and urbanists do to direct real smart and green processes to the right trajectories?
• What should be done in order to foster truly smart and green education, research and development in specific academic disciplines and which essential cross-disciplinary collaboration should be enhanced?

Potential answers to the questions listed above could be found in strategies, approaches and methods aiming for high quality in the fields of Economy, Ecology, Sociology and Culture, Architectonic and Urban Design, Technologies and Systems for Urban Infrastructures (aiming for increased use of renewable resources and resource efficiency by integrated management of energy, water and waste), Participative and Integrative Planning, Management, Construction, Marketing, Quality Assurance, as well as Monitoring and Maintenance.

As with the conference theme, the metaphor of True Smart & Green should inspire our imagination and reflection toward sustainable and resilient urbanism.

Aims

This conference aims to generate a fruitful exchange between the academic and the professional debate, to investigate opportunities and challenges for the sustainable urban development of real smart and green cities. Causes, reasons and dependencies of urban transformation processes will be analyzed and planning strategies and design concepts for a more smart and green development of cities and regions will be explored by means of presentations and interdisciplinary scientific discussions of research results, design concepts, technical systems and solutions, theoretical approaches as well as professional experiences, and best practices.

Both research and design approaches are sought for this forum. For that purpose, differing specialties and scales will be integrated within the conference agenda: urban (and regional) planning and management, urban and architectural design, urban sociology, economics, geography and ecology.

Target Groups

During the conference, scientific results, as well as design concepts and technical solutions will be presented; theoretical approaches will be discussed as well as professional experiences and best practices. With this in mind, the target group would include a range of different backgrounds: architects and urban planners; policy makers, students and researchers from different disciplines; managers and politicians, all of whom are involved in or interested in design, planning and the management of the built environment.

Conference Subtopics

The conference will integrate two different elements:

1. Keynote speeches about the major debates on smart and green urban development in theory and practice;
2. The presentation and discussion of academic papers and posters, based on a worldwide call for papers.

The presentation of papers will be organized in 5 parallel sessions, assigned to the following sub-themes and issues:

1. True Smart & Green Urban Society
2. True Smart & Green Urban Economies
3. True Smart & Green Urban Planning and Governance
4. True Smart & Green Urban Design and Visions
5. True Smart & Green Urban Technologies and Infrastructure Systems

Monday, 22 June 2015

Venue: Songdo Convention Incheon (1)

Simultaneous Translation Korean–English and English–Korean will be provided.

Conference Opening

Moderator: Prof. Sung-Ah KIM (Sungkyunkwan University)

09:00 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10:10 Opening, Prof. Donyun KIM (Conference Chairman)

10:10 – 10:25 Welcome Address, Prof. Seung-Hoon LEE (Chairman of Korean Green Growth Committee)

10:25 – 10:40 Welcome Address, Mr. Il-Ho YOO (Minister of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport)

10:40 – 10:55 Welcome Address, Mr. Jeong-Bok YOO (Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City)

10:55 – 11:10 Welcome Address, Mr. Hag-Jae LEE (Member of National Assembly /
Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee)

11:10 – 11:25 Welcome Address, Prof. Kyu Sang CHUNG (President of Sungkyunkwan University)

11:25 – 11:40 Coffee Break

Keynote Speech Morning

Moderator: Prof. Sung-Ah KIM (Sungkyunkwan University)

11:40 – 12:40 Prof. Jürgen Rosemann, Chairman IFoU, National University of Singapore, Singapore
True Smart and Green City?

12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Buffet

Keynote Speeches Afternoon

Moderator: Prof. Saehyung SOHN (Sungkyunkwan University)

14:00 – 15:00 Dr. Nguyen QUANG, UN Habitat, Vietnam
Institutional Approach to Smart and Green City: From the Global South Perspective

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 – 16:15 Prof. Dennis FRENCHMAN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Urban Innovation Districts

16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30 Prof. Mark SWILLING, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Green Urban Infrastructures for the Twenty First Century: What Prospects for a Just Transition?

17:30 – 17:45 Coffee Break

17:45 – 18:30 Podium Discussion with Keynote Lectures and Special Guests
True and Smart Green City?

Moderator: Prof. Thorsten Schuetze (Sungkyunkwan University)

From 19:00 Closing, Reception & Conference Dinner

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Venue: Songdo Convention Incheon (1)

Keynote Speeches Morning

Moderator: to be announced

09:30 – 10:30 Michael JOROFF, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

A New City Making Industry to Meet the Mega Challenge of Sustainable and Smart Cities

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 Prof. Donyun KIM, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Good City Making with Utilizing Cutting Edge Technology

12:00 – 13:30Lunch

Parallel Sessions Afternoon

13:30 – 15:00
Parallel Sessions 1

Session 1.1: Room 113

Moderator: Jo SANTOSO (Tarumanagara University)
Reporter: Lorenzo CHELLERI (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

20 minutes per presentation

• Where's Wally? In Search of Citizen Perspectives on the Smart City (Paper ID: A001)
  Vanessa Thomas, Ding Wang, Louise Mullagh , and Nick Dunn
• Education for Sustainable Architecture in Asian Countries (Paper ID: A002)
  Santiago Porras Álvarez, Jiyoung Park , Kyungsun Lee , Byungyun Lee and Sun-Young Rieh
• Study On The Smart Growth Resource-Based City In China: A Case Study Of Renewing Cities (Paper ID: A003)
  Ruiyin Dou, Xuemin Liu and Qiang Li
• An Old Concept Towards Green: The Confucian Impacts on Architecture and Urban Design in Traditional Chinese Society (Paper ID: A004)
  Shanshan Liu and Xiao Huang

Session 1.2: Room 115

Moderator: Gerhard BRUYNS (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Reporter: York OSTERMEYER (Chalmers University of Technology)
15 minutes per presentation

• Low-cost Multispecies Air Quality Sensor (Paper ID: E001)
  Chunting Michelle Wang, Benjamin David Esse, Nicola Carslaw and Alastair Lewis
• Urban Density, Accessibility and Energy Consumption in the Transport Sector: Analysis of 30 Cities in China(Paper ID: E002)
  Jing Guo, Jing Zhang, Qiang Li and Xuemin Liu
• A Case Study on Passive vs. Active Strategies for an Energy-Efficient School Building Design (Paper ID: E004)
  Ji-Eun Kang, Ki-Uhn Ahn, Cheol-Soo Park and Thorsten Schuetze
• Energy Toolbox and Potential for Zero-Emission-Buildings in European and Asian Cities (Paper ID: E006)
  Max Jacques Talmon-Gros, Thorsten Schütze, Christoph Koller and Ranka Junge
• Comparable Measures of Accessibility to Public Transport by the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)(Paper ID: E007)
  Jinjoo Bok and Youngsang Kwon

Session 1.3: Room 116

Moderator: Hendrik TIEBEN (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Reporter: Maik NEUMANN (Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen)
20 minutes per presentation

• Urban Naturalization: An Approach Towards Sustainable Cities (Paper ID: D001)
  Jaime Aguilar Rojas and M. Anne Naeth
• Campus WU A Holistic History (Paper ID: D002)
  Laura P. Spinadel
• Low Impact Development Applications in Urban Watersheds: Efficacy Evaluation by Imperviousness Connectivity Estimations (Paper ID: D003)
  Wonmin Sohn, Jun-Hyun Kim and Ming-Han Li
• Differing Government Discourses on Korean U-City and Smart City: Cases of Songdo, Sejong City and Seoul(Paper ID: D005)
  Ji-in Chang, Yea Sung Kim and Aei Jung Song

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

16:00–17:30 Parallel Sessions 2

Session 2.1: Room 113

Moderator: Thorsten SCHUETZE (Sungkyunkwan University)
Reporter: Xiaoxi HUI (Beijing University of Technology)
15 minutes per presentation

• Re-Framing Resilient Urbanism. A Smart Alternative to Generic New Towns Development in South-East Asia: The Case of Hanoi (Vietnam) (Paper ID: C003)
  Luisa Maria Calabrese, Wouter van Faassen and Lei Qu
• Comparative Analysis of LEED-ND & DGNB-UD Rating System (Paper ID: C004)
  Joongwon Lee, Jiyoung Park and Thorsten Schuetze
• An Introduction and Comparative Study of the Implementation Approaches of Beijing's Green Belts (Paper ID: C006)
  Nawei Wu
• Value Trends Under the Transition in Urban Renewal—The Case Study of Shenzhen (Paper ID: C008)
  Jingxian Tang and Yan Tang
• Actors' Role in Turning Constraints Into Opportunities: Disseminating Sustainable Urban Water Management Practices in Forest Municipality, Brussels, Belgium (Paper ID: C009)
  Catalina Codruta Dobre, Marco Ranzato and Lusia Moretto
• A Research on Area-Based Urban Governance by Public Participation (Paper ID: C010)
  Xiaowei Zheng, Minghua Huang, Yang Wang and Tian Wang

Session 2.2: Room 115

Moderator: Jo SANTOSO (Tarumanagara University)
Reporter: Lorenzo CHELLERI (Gran Sasso Science Institute)
25 minutes per presentation

• "Green Challenges" for Beijing Heading Towards a World City—From the Perspective of Fortune Global 500 Companies (Paper ID: B001)
  Changming Yu and Shimeng Hao
• Sustainable Urban Design: A Study in the Emissions Impact Related to the Choice of Urban Typologies and Construction Process (Paper ID: B002)
  Antonio Ángel Rodríguez Serrano, Santiago Porras Álvarez
• The Future of the Traditional Market and Its Importance to Develop the Global Competitiveness of the City Based on Its Local-Specific Potentials (Paper ID: B003)
  Jo Santoso and Miya Irawati

Session 2.3: Room 116

Moderator: Hendrik TIEBEN (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Reporter: Maik NEUMANN (Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen)
15 minutes per presentation

• Multiplicity and Reversibility of Postindustrial Space – Paracity and Abstract Machine (Paper ID: D006)
  Kan Ju David Chen and Marco Casagrande
• Urban Voids: As a Chance for Sustainable Urban Design (Paper ID: D007)
  Seog Jeong Lee, Soewon Hwang and Dongha Lee
• Refining the Complex Urban: The Study of Urban Residential Typologies for Reduced Future Energy and Climate Impacts (Paper ID: D008)
  Ali Cheshmehzangi and Chris Butters
• Smart by Nature: The Use of Swarm Planning in Creating Productive and Adaptive Urban Landscapes(Paper ID: D011)
  Rob Roggema
  
  
• Environmental Urban Design and Planning Rules and their Impact on Street Spaces in Hong Kong and Macau (Paper ID: D016)
  Hendrik Tieben, Joanna Chu, Nuno Soares and Edward Yiu

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Venue: Songdo Convention Incheon (1)

Keynote Speech Morning

Thorsten SCHUETZE (Sungkyunkwan University)

09:30 – 10:30

Dr. Isabelle Anguelovski, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
"Green" Is the New "White" And "Wealthy": Environmental Gentrification, Community Displacement, and Enclavization in the Sustainable and Resilient City

10:30 – 11:00Coffee BreakParallel Sessions Morning

11:00 – 12:30 Parallel Sessions 1

Session 1.1: Room 113

Moderator: Jo SANTOSO (Tarumanagara University)
Reporter: Lorenzo CHELLERI (Gran Sasso Science Institute)
20 minutes per presentation

• Exploring the User-Driven Implications in Building Urban Resilience for Sustainability Transitions: Lessons From OURS CITIES Global Network Study Cases (Paper ID: A006)
  Lorenzo Chelleri, Harn Wei Kua, Juan Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez, Kh Md Nahiduzzaman,
  Gladman Thondhlana and Abdullatif Said Abdallah
• Symbiosis of Kampong and Large Scale Development:The case of Kampung Menteng Atas and Rasuna Epincentrum Development (Paper ID: A009)
  Wita Simatupang, Miya Irawati and Rully Mardona
• Sustainable Urbanism: Towards Edible Campuses in Qatar and the Gulf Region (Paper ID: A011)
  Anna Grichting and Reem Awwaad
• Public Participation in Rural Society of Heritage Site—Take Ancient City of Zhuguo as an Example (Paper ID: A012)
  Chi Lu

Session 1.2: Room 115

Moderator: Yoo UOOSANG (Chongnam National University)
Reporter: York OSTERMEYER (Chalmers University of Technology)
20 minutes per presentation

• System for Preventive Maintenance of U-City Infrastructure (Paper ID: E008)
  Yoojung Jo, Hyoungsuk Lee and Donyun Kim
• Numerical Investigation of Thermal Comfort in an Office Room With 4-Way Cassette Air-Conditioner (Paper ID: E009)
  Oluleke Bamodu, Tong Yang and Dunant Halim
• Specific Barriers to Massive Scale Energetic Refurbishment for Sample Markets in Europe (Paper ID: E010)
  Clara Camarasa, Claudio Naegeli, Corinna Salzer, Saurabh Saraf and York Ostermeyer
• Green Infrastructure as Water Sensitive Urban Design Strategy for Sustainable Stormwater Management(Paper ID: E011)
  Seung-Hyun Kim

Session 1.3: Room 116

Moderator: Santiago PORRAS (Korea University)
Reporter: Maik NEUMANN (Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen)
15 minutes per presentation

• Integrating Environmental Hazard Mitigation Into Korea-Indonesia Joint Urban Planning Studio Pedagogy(Paper ID: D009)
  Sea Eun Cho, Saehoon Kim and Sehyung
• Do the North and the South Share a Cycling Mindset? (Paper ID: D012)
  Dorina Pojani, Dukagjin Bakija and Entela Shkreli
• A Direction of Realization for Smart Green City (Paper ID: D014)
  Dongchul Lee, Saehyung Sohn and Donyun Kim
• Conceptual Planning for Da Nang High-Tech Park (Paper ID: D015)
  Eunhee Choi, Saehyung Sohn and Donyun Kim
• Environmental Characteristic of the Creative Corporation: Focused on the Case of Google (Paper ID: D017)
  Injae Yu, Saehyung Sohn and Donyun Kim

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Parallel Sessions

14:00 – 16:00


Parallel Sessions 2

Session 2.1: Room 113

Moderator: Marc WOLFRAM (Yonsei University)
Reporter: Xiaoxi HUI (Beijing University of Technology)
20 minutes per presentation

• Social and Governance Innovations for Enabling Place-Based Sustainability Transitions: The Case of Village Communities in Seoul (Paper ID: C001)
  Marc Wolfram
• Integrating the Climate Resilience Agenda Into Local Urban Decision-Making and Planning: Assessing Local Institutional Support and Capacity (Paper ID: C011)
  Hanne van den Berg, Devisari Tunas and Duong Ngoc Quyen
• Transition in Green Space Governance for Urban Sustainability: Study on Urban District Parks in Seoul (Paper ID: C012)
  Kyung A Kim, Kyu-Young Han and Jun Han Kim
• 2030 Seoul Plan: Urban Foresight Focusing on Reflexive Governance and Resilience (Paper ID: C013)
  Jungbae An and Junhan Kim
• An Applied Research Experiences: Green Pedestrian Facilities in Indonesia (Paper ID: C014)
  Laksmi T. D. J. W.W Darmoyono and Natalia Tanan
• Characteristics and Evaluation of the Governance System in Urban Regeneration Projects in Gwangju City(Paper ID: C015)
  Uoo Sang Yoo, Eon-Yong Lee, Sung-Jin Park

Session 2.2: Room 115

Moderator: Yoo UOOSANG (Chongnam National University)
Reporter: York OSTERMEYER (Chalmers University of Technology)
30 minutes per presentation

• Innovation for Low-Rise Construction in the Urban Tropics: Utilization of Structural Bamboo for Cost-Efficient Housing (Paper ID: E012)
  Corinna Salzer and Clara Camarasa
• Innovative Toilet Technologies for Smart and Green Cities (Paper ID: E013)
  Shervin Hashemi, Mooyoung Han, Tschungil Kim and Yeonsik Kim
• Water-Energy-Food Nexus of Concave Green-Roof in SNU (Paper ID: E014)
  Soyoung Baek and Mooyoung Han
• Towards Urban Mobility Transitions in Seoul: A Socio-Technical System Analysis and Identification of Policy Options for a Breakthrough of Cycling as a Commuting Mode (Paper ID: E015)
  Junhan Kim

Session 2.3: Room 116

Moderator: Santiago PORRAS (Korea University)
Reporter: Maik NEUMANN (Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen)
25 minutes per presentation

• Reuse of Old Buildings as Private Architects’ Workspaces in Beijing (Paper ID: D018)
  Junsheng Fu and Wenyi Zhu
• Urban Resilience: Principles for the Water Sensitive City (Paper ID: D021)
  Jihye Lee
• Low Impact Development of City Wall-Canal System from Urban Segregator to Green Archival Linkage—“Sponge City” Rejuvenation Design of Historic Eastern Water Gate Area of Nanjing (Paper ID: D023)
  Cao Zhejing, Chen Yonghui, Hu Xiangyu and Hao Yu
• Towards Water Sensitive Co-Design in Brussels: The Forest Case Study (Paper ID: D024)
  Marco Ranzato and Andrea Bortolotti
• Urban Project Revisited From Urban Metabolism Principles: Reflections From the UpCycle Workshop in Barcelona (Paper ID: D025)
  Geoffrey Grulois and Carles Crosas Armengol

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30

Reports from the parallel sessions

17:30 – 18:00

Jo SANTOSO, Universitas Tarumanagara (UNTAR), Indonesia
True Smart and Green City? Reflections to the Results of the Conference

18:00 – 18:30

Awards for the best papers
Prof. Jürgen ROSEMANN (Chairman IFoU)

18:30 – 18:45

Closing of the conference
Vivienne WANG (Director IFoU)

Thursday, 25 June 2015

Excursions – multiple venues – whole day.

Excursion
1. Seoul Museum of History
2. Cheonggyecheon Stream
3. Jongmyo Shrine
4. Option 1: Stay in Seoul and proceed with individual tour - visit Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP).
Option 2: Return to Incheon by tour bus - visit Sangam Digital Media City (DMC) Seoul.

Visa Requirements

Visas & Passports for Korea: Foreign nationals entering the Republic of Korea are generally required to have a valid passport and a Korean visa. However, many are permitted visa-free entry for a limited time under certain conditions following the "Citizens of the Countries under the Visa Exemption Agreement". Please refer to the Visit Korea website.

Accomodation & Venue

• List of hotels that offer special rates for participants of the 8th IFoU conference (PDF file).
• Plan and information on the venue; how to get there from the airport (PDF file).

Registration Types & Fees

To register with this conference, please use the IFoU 2015 Registration Form.

Cancellation Policy

Registrations can be cancelled up to 30 days before the event starts subject to an administrative fee of 100 USD (US Dollars). Refunds will be processed within 4 weeks after the conference.

Terms and Conditions for the Participation with the Conference

By registering with this conference, the registrant agrees to the following terms and conditions, unless any agreements to the contrary are made in writing.

Cancellation of the Registration by the Conference Registrants

Registrants can cancel their registration any time prior to the start of the conference in writing by e-mail or postal letter to
the conference organizers. If the registrations fees have been paid to and received by the conference organizers, the registrants will be refunded according to the following schedule.

• Cancellation by the registrant up to and including 30 days before the conference starts: guaranteed refund of the amount of registration fees minus possible bank or credit card fees, which were already paid to and received by the conference organizers, and subject to an administrative service fee of 100 USD (US Dollars).
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  service fee of 100 USD (US Dollars).

Refunds will be processed within 4 weeks after the event. In case a Visa needs to be obtained to travel to the conference, we recommend that the Visa is applied for by the registrant as early as possible to avoid possible losses from a cancellation.

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In case the conference is cancelled by the organizers, or the individual registration is cancelled by the organizers, registrant will be informed by e-mail by the conference organizers, and will be refunded the full amount of registration fees minus possible bank or credit card fees, which were already paid to and received by the conference organizers, within 4 weeks.

In any case, the conference organizers will not be able to refund any costs resulting from travel bookings (flight, train, car rental, etc.), accommodation bookings (hotel, motel, B&B, etc.), insurance coverage and/or other bookings and services related to travelling to and attending the conference. To avoid possible losses to the registrant in case of cancellation of the conference or individual registration by the organizers, it is recommended that the registrant book refundable third party services only.

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Liability and Insurance Coverage

The conference organizers decline any responsibility for losses or damages arising to the registrant while travelling to/from the conference, and while attending the conference. It is the registrant’s sole responsibility to have adequate travel, health, and liability insurance coverage. The conference organizer will provide accident insurance coverage only at the venue of the conference during the conference hours, and at the venues of and during possible conference dinners or conference outings.

The Conference Organizers
Seoul, January 2015.

The following five papers were awarded:

Section A

[A001] Where's Wally? In Search of Citizen Perspectives on the Smart City
by Vanessa Thomas, Ding Wang, Louise Mullagh and Nick Dunn

Section B[B002] Sustainable Urban Design: A Study in the Emissions Impact Related to the Choice of Urban Typologies and Construction Process
by Antonio Ángel Rodríguez Serrano and Santiago Porras Álvarez

Section C

[C006] An Introduction and Comparison Study of Beijing's Green Belts' Implementation Modes
by Nawei Wu

Section D

[D004] Comparative Analysis of Material Criteria in Green Certification Rating Systems and Urban Design Guidelines
by Jungwon Yoon and Jiyoung Park

Section E

[E012] Innovation for Low-Rise Construction in the Urban Tropics: Utilization of Structural Bamboo for Cost-Efficient Housing
by Corinna Salzer and Clara Camarasa

International Review Panel

Dr. Anguelovski, Isabelle; Prof. Bekkering, Henco; Prof. Bruyns, Gerhard; Prof. Chang, Shenglin Elijah; Dr. Chelleri, Lorenzo; Dr. Dalisa, Giacomo; Prof. Dickhaut, Wolfgang; Prof. Frantzeskaki, Niki; Prof. Hofert, Karin; Dr. Hui, Xiaoxi Sebastian; Prof. Junge, Ranka; Prof. Kim, Jun-Hyun; Prof. Kim, Lee-Hyung; Prof. Kim, Sungah; Prof. Kriznik, Blaz; Prof. Leoni, Francesco; Prof. Liu, Jian; Dr. Luethi, Christoph; Prof. Maydl, Peter; Prof. Mestre Martínez, Nieves; Prof. Neumann, Maik; Prof. Ostermeyer, York; Prof. Park, Cheol-Soo; Prof. Porras, Santiago; Prof. Rieh, Sun-Young; Prof. Sabaté, Joaquim; Prof. Santoso, Jo; Prof. Schuetze, Thorsten; Prof. Sohn, Saehyung; Prof. Stoy, Christian; Prof. Tieben, Hendrik; Prof. Tosi, Maria Chiara; Dr. Tunas, Devisari; Prof. Van Dorst, Machiel; Dr. Wang, Vivienne; Prof. Wolfram, Marc; Dr. Wriege-Bechtold, Alexander; Prof. Yoo, Uoo Sang; Prof. Yoon, Dong Keun; Prof. Zhang, Ye; Prof. Zhu, Wenyi.

[A005] Relations Between Eco-Aesthetics and Biopolitics