This brief collection of quotes has been extracted from the abstracts submitted. In each case only appears the first author.
To break the differences between the have and the have not's it will be very important to conciliate the new technologies and the local characteristics - glocalism. Joao Castro
How to conciliate the individual perspectives of the future into a common objective? How to show to all individual community that information and knowledge are fundamental to build a more liveable and equity space? How to transfer the results to a larger strategy for the entire city?, and, at the end, How to explain that people is the most important "infrastructure" to build a better future? Joao Castro
Municipal planning should incorporate citizens perspective and needs, and acknowledge the potential of them as valuable resources in improving neighbourhoods in the accessions process into the EU. Sasha Karajovich
Advertising deals with other time units and periods than physically constructed public space. In what way is the identity of public space influenced by that? Franziska Lehmann
As in many European cities, water bound have vanished, leaving the zone desolated. Stephanie Maes
The territory is undergoing a new spatial organisation marked by a double process of fragmentation of settlements and individualisation of relations. Francesc Magrinya
The territory is not only created through aggregation. Francesc Magrinya
The landscape is a complex element that has an important social role in the cultural, ecological, environmental and social fields, and constitutes a resource favourable to economic activity. This definition is referred not only to areas of outstanding beauty, but to the everyday areas. Francesca Mazzino
Is there a strong link between urban model and the possibilities of communication of people in an urban territory? Josep Oliva
The articulation of physical spaces and virtual electronic spaces presents a complex synergistic effect that encourages designers to reconsider the role of the technological paradigm in the continual transformation of today’s public spaces. Koray Velibeyoglu