Eco City Conference 2009
02. September 2009
Istanbul will host the 8th International Ecocity Conference (Ecocity World Summit), December 13 -15, 2009.
The event will be convened by Ecocity Builders, the Municipality of Istanbul,
Yildiz Technical University, and Parantez International. Business and civic leaders
around the globe will gather to design the city in balance with nature.
"Times are crying out for a much larger effort in the direction of the city that
restores, not destroys, the biosphere," says Richard Register, President of Ecocity Builders and author of Ecocities,
Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature (New Society Publishers, 2006). The answer
to many of our pressing social and environmental problems, he believes, is to
redesign and rebuild cities for people and revitalization of nature instead of
for cars and sprawl.
The world-renowned series follows the first, held in Berkeley in 1990, and six
subsequent conferences in Australia, Senegal, Brazil, China, India and San Francisco.
Ecocity World Summit 2008 will take center stage before a highly influential community
of architects, planners, designers, policy makers, green businesses, political
and nonprofit leaders, with the added participation of international experts and
delegates.
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