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Calls

What makes the cities we inhabit livable? Transport, housing, health. Open space, mobility and the environment. Matters of culture, entrepreneurship, crime and safety. Affordability and access to education. Depending on whose ‘livability index’ you look at, it may include design quality, sustainability and the digital infrastructures of the smart city. Other criteria applied may encompass food access, job opportunities or walkability. Inclusivity and the politics of participation also come into play. Discrimination in all its forms impacts livability and social and political equity. Clearly then, this is an interdisciplinary question.

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TWO CONFERENCES       |       SHARED THEMES       |       MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES

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The Livable Cities conference, LISBON, is titled ‘Cities, Culture, People & Place’. Its particular areas of interest relate to cultural readings of urban life and how they connect to multidisciplinary readings of ‘the city’ as a built and social phenomenon.

LISBON: Full Call.   9-11th July 2025

The Livable Cities conference, BARCELONA, is titled ‘ The Urban Experience: From Social Policy to Design’. It is particularly interested in the city and social policies but seeks to explore these questions from varied standpoints.

BARCELONA: Full Call.   6-18th July 2025

They are sperate conferences, organised by separate universities. They are displayed together here under the banner of the AMPS Livable Cities series. Delegates wishing to attend Lisbon should submit an abstract to that event. Delegates wishing to attend the event is  Barcelona should follow the links to that event.

If you wish to attend both events, please submit one abstract to Lisbon and another separately to Barcelona. See Submissions & Registration below.