ICIPSUM 2020: 14. International Conference on Informalizing Public Space and Urban Mapping

June 18-19, 2020 in Toronto, Canada

Conference Code: 20CA06ICIPSUM

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The International Research Conference Aims and Objectives

The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations. With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.

ICIPSUM 2020: 14. International Conference on Informalizing Public Space and Urban Mapping aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Informalizing Public Space and Urban Mapping. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Informalizing Public Space and Urban Mapping

Call for Contributions

Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Informalizing Public Space and Urban Mapping are cordially invited for presentation at the conference. The conference solicits contributions of abstracts, papers and e-posters that address themes and topics of the conference, including figures, tables and references of novel research materials.

Guidelines for Authors

Please ensure your submission meets the conference's strict guidelines for accepting scholarly papers. Downloadable versions of the check list for Full-Text Papers and Abstract Papers.

Please refer to the Paper Submission Guideline, Abstract Submission Guideline and Author Information before submitting your paper.

Conference Proceedings

All submitted conference papers will be blind peer reviewed by three competent reviewers. The peer-reviewed conference proceedings are indexed in the Open Science Index, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Zenedo, OpenAIRE, BASE, WorldCAT, Sherpa/RoMEO, and other index databases. Impact Factor Indicators.

Special Journal Issues

ICIPSUM 2020 has teamed up with the Special Journal Issue on Informalizing Public Space and Urban Mapping. A number of selected high-impact full text papers will also be considered for the special journal issues. All submitted papers will have the opportunity to be considered for this Special Journal Issue. The paper selection will be carried out during the peer review process as well as at the conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision for paper selection will be made based on peer review reports by the Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief jointly. Selected full-text papers will be published online free of charge.

Conference Sponsor and Exhibitor Opportunities

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Selected Papers

Connotation Reform and Problem Response of Rural Social Relations under the Influence of the Earthquake: With a Review of Wenchuan Decade
Yanqun Li, Hong Geng
Comparative Study of Ecological City Criteria in Traditional Iranian Cities
Zahra Yazdani Paraii, Zohreh Yazdani Paraei
Reinvestment of the Urban Context in Historic Cities: The Case Study of El Sheikh Kandil Street, Rosetta, Egypt
Riham A. Ragheb, Ingy M. Naguib
On Figuring the City Characteristics and Landscape in Overall Urban Design: A Case Study in Xiangyang Central City, China
Guyue Zhu, Liangping Hong
Urban Intensification and the Character of Urban Landscape: A Morphological Perspective
Xindong An, Kai Gu
Corruption in India: Causes and Remedial Measures
Ghulam Nabi Naz
Renewed Urban Waterfront: Spatial Conditions of a Contemporary Urban Space Typology
Beate Niemann, Fabian Pramel
Designing for Experience-Based Tourism: A Virtual Tour in Tehran
Maryam Khalili, Fateme Ghanei
Critical Approach to Define the Architectural Structure of a Health Prototype in a Rural Area of Brazil
Domenico Chizzoniti, Monica Moscatelli, Letizia Cattani, Luca Preis
High-Rises and Urban Design: The Reasons for Unsuccessful Placemaking with Residential High-Rises in England
E. Kalcheva, A. Taki, Y. Hadi
Building an Arithmetic Model to Assess Visual Consistency in Townscape
Dheyaa Hussein, Peter Armstrong
Re-Presenting the Egyptian Informal Urbanism in Films between 1994 and 2014
R. Mofeed, N. Elgendy
Urban Ecological Interaction: Air, Water, Light and New Transit at the Human Scale of Barcelona’s Superilles
Philip Speranza
A Morphological Examination of Urban Renewal Processes: The Sample of Konya City
Muzaffer Ali Yaygın, Mehmet Topçu
Influence of Place Identity on Walkability: A Comparative Study between Two Mixed Used Streets Chaharbagh St. Isfahan, Iran and Dereboyu St. Lefkosa, North Cyprus
R. Rafiemanzelat

The role of informality in public space
Forms of informality take place in public space
Different forms of informality work in public space
The role of the built environment
Urban design that most effectively address informality in the process of shaping and managing public spaces
The synergies and contradictions between formal and informal in public space
The in-between conditions
Forms of informality that compete for space and visibility
Methods that can be used to unravel the ways in which forms of informality work in public space
The adaptations and codes of informality in public space
The relations between urban informality and street-life intensity
The rhythms of informality in public space
The relations between spatial, social, and temporal aspects of informality in public space
Ways that can urban mapping be used to unravel the dynamics of informality in public space
Urban design interventions that enable or constrain the emergence and consolidation of informality in public space
Ways that can urban informality be sustained in public space

Abstracts/Full-Text Paper Submission Deadline		December 12, 2019
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection		December 31, 2019
Final Paper (Camera Ready) Submission & Early Bird Registration Deadline		May 17, 2020
Conference Dates		June 18-19, 2020

Reazul Ahsan	University of Utah, Asia Campus, US
Usama Nassar	Suez Canal University, EG
Firas Al-Douri	International University of Sarajevo, BA
Ahmed Salah Attia	Jordan University of Science and Technology, JO
Natasa Danilovic Hristic	Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia, RS
Bouzir Tallal Abd El Karim	University Mohamed Khider of Biskra, DZ
Suaad Ridha	El-Mustansıriyya Üniversitesi, IQ
Guo Linlin	Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CN
Farzaeh Sasanpour	Kharazmi University, IR
Ghada Ragheb	Pharos University, EG
Demet Mutman	OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY,
Elena Stoyanova Kalcheva	De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Mildred Moreno Villanueva	ESIA-TEC, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
Gulnar Bayramoglu Barman	Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Raghad Mofeed	Cairo University, Egypt
Milton Montejano Castillo	ESIA-TEC, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
Anna Grichting	Qatar University, Qatar
Riham Ragheb	Pharos University in Alexandria, Egypt
Aysen Ozturk	Eskişehir Osmangazi University, TR
Dibya Jivan Pati	GITAM School of Architecture, IN
Mahmoud Abdellatif	University of Dammam, SA
Imad Assali	Ahlia University, BH
Turki Hasan Ali	Mosul, IQ
Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali	Universiti Sains Malaysia, MY
Abeer Elshater	Ain Shams University, EG
Ahmad Torkaman	Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch, IR
Samer Abu Ghazaleh	University of Jordan, JO
Mustafa Mezughi	University of Tripoli, LY
Eska Elena Solano	Metropolitan Autonomous University, MX
Mike Dee	Queensland University of Technology, AU

Participation Type	Early Registration Fees	Registration Fees
Non-Student Oral/Poster Presenter Registration	€ 450	€ 500
Student Oral/Poster Presenter Registration	€ 350	€ 400
Listener Registration	€ 250	€ 300
Additional Paper Publication	€ 100

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Early Bird Registration

Early Bird registration is valid until 2020-05-17 23:59:59

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