part 1  keynote speech
  the city and the country: how to reconstruct a relationship
  the knowledge cities: how the universities and science parks are shaping the chinese urban environment
  ports and cities in the age of box capitalism
  low carbon city planning strategies based on severe cold climate regions
part 2  enhancing the life quality of rural villages through people empowerment
  promoting rural development to combat desertification: an integrated approach for restoring degraded rangelands in morocco
  digital hamlets: innovative methods and e-participation tools supporting self-sustaining policymaking at the local level
part 3  managing the relationship between city and countryside
  non-urbanized areas, urban sprawl and landscape protection planning: researches and planning examples from south italy
  the spatial plan of the metropolitan region of barcelona
  mobility and urban form: the case of the metropolitan area of barcelona
  developing a green-tod urban design model to promote eco-city development
  urban-rural sustainable development and planning method based on cybernetics
  the peri-urban landscape as battlefield between private and public perspectives
part 4  cold climate regions: challenging context to experiment low carbon target development
  on the "low-earbon" approach to cope with weather vulnerability: a case study of the snow village of china
  dynamic analysis for solar energy availability in harbin high-rise residential area
  thinking about the urban development in northeast of china in the background of economic transition
  the europe china clean energy center