This brief collection of quotes has been extracted from the abstracts submitted. In each case only appears the first author.
All cities must learn to think more like business: developing products, markets and customers. John Carnie
Despite of the different identities, cities in all European regions have common features based on their history, urban form, social structure, natural and man-made environment. Giancarlo Deplano
How deals the local urban actor as either urban planner with the potential Information Communication Technologies and its influence on urban practices and urban structures. Giancarlo Deplano
Is required a re-examination about the shared connections between infrastructure services and contemporary development of the cities. The divide of the networks is also a social divide. Angela D'Orazio
Almost every city in Europe over the past 20 years has attempted to reinvent itself. John Carnie
Would be an urban system without an infrastructure of technical networks to support the products, people, info and signs exchange. Angela D'Orazio
The networks cannot be conceived from a purely technical point of view. Indeed for instance they have social costs as well as several implications of cultural, anthropological and legal order; Angela D'Orazio
It appears crucial to pay critical attention to the infrastructures organised as networks on account of two kind of reasons: the first one concerns the mutual relationship between networks and territories; the second one refers to the governance as dialectical interchange among knowledge, power relationship and technical objectification processes. Angela D'Orazio
An urban sustainable development cannot be realised without involving resident population and local policy-makers. Antonio Disi
How to make government instrument aiming to support and not to obstruct the development? How to define more efficacious procedures in order to exploit the plus-values generated by the urban growth for a general utility? Ferrigni Ferruccio
The Nature-city is considered as an ecological connection field able to self-regenerate into a new equilibrium. In order to make it happens following a process fully accepted by local populations, also taking into consideration sustainability principles, it is necessary not to leave the ecology up to the scientists. Instead of it, it should become everyone’s knowledge. Marisa Lavecchia
It is need to increase the value of spare time, realising structures and services in public spaces of the cities, that all people could use in freedom and safely. Manlio Marchetta
[negative urban scenarios related to the hosting of a major event]... both sustainability and legacy are contestable due a very important inbuilt structural incoherence between "planning for the city" and "planning for an event". Athanasios Pagonis
If we are to talk about network space then we need to acknowledge the vertical interaction between different scales of connectivity. Athanasios Pagonis
If connectivity is to make sense then we need to evaluate the structural conflicts that appear when different scales interact in overlapping networks. Athanasios Pagonis
The development of land use patterns, affected as they are by institutional and legal factors, produces discontinuities which lead to a fragmented townscape. City space incorporates tendencies which tend to negate the unity of the urban system, both in physical and institutional terms. Popi Sapountzaki
Local administrations tend to view their area of jurisdiction as a closed system. Local societies tend to become self-absorbed and dominated by self-interest to the detriment of the functional operation of wider systems. And, above all, planning failures and private interests produce areas of inert space, which destroy continuity and connectivity. Popi Sapountzaki
Nowdays we can’t escape from learning to communicate among diversity. Anna Uttaro
It is impreative to achieve a sustainable communication, face to a reality pervaded by too simple or to technical languages. Anna Uttaro