Sustainable City Development

[i]Conference 2007[/i] Malmo, Sweden 12-14 September The Sustainable City Development conference in 2007 will include 18 workshops and 10 study tours. The programme was released the 20th of February 2007. The first Sustainable Building Conference was held in 1998 in Vancouver. It has been growing steadily ever since and gathers large numbers of building researchers, practitioners, officials, industry representatives and students from all over the world. The latest conference took place in Tokyo in 2005 and had more than 1,700 participants. For the first time, five Regional Conferences were held all over the world prior to the Sustainable Building Conference. Local problems and solutions were presented, analysed and discussed and the results provided input to the main conference in Tokyo. This new method for participation proved to be very successful and will be used to prepare the next Sustainable Building Conference in Melbourne 2008. I am very proud that the Sustainable City Development Conference 2007 in Malmö will constitute the Regional Conference on Sustainable Building for Northern Europe. This conference will be a good opportunity to share experiences about building a green future and taking the discussion on sustainability one step further. The programme includes a wide range of different issues related to city development. A number of workshops will focus more on issues related to construction and buildings. The results from these workshops will be reported to the Sustainable Building Conference in Melbourne 2008. For more information: http://www.malmo.se/sustainablecity