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Deadline for submission of abstracts: 8 May 2026
Abstracts for talks and posters are invited on the following topics:
Buildings and Housing
Transportation/Sustainable Transport Systems
Healthy Cities
Nature-Based Solutions and Ecosystem Services
Social Systems, Justice and Governance
Climate Action and Resilience
Circular Economy and Resource Management: Integrated approaches to food-water-energy and waste
Notes for authors
You can submit as many abstracts to the conference for review as you would like.
If, after the review by the committee, you have more than one paper accepted for the conference, you will need to register to attend and pay an additional paper fee for each additional paper (i.e., for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th papers – not the 1st). Please note this is for papers that you are the presenting author of, not papers that you are co-author of.
Once the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors must register for the conference and present the paper at the conference.
Abstracts of all accepted contributions will be included within the abstract system which will be distributed to all registered conference participants.
Successfully submitted abstracts will be acknowledged with an electronic receipt including an abstract reference number, which should be quoted in all correspondence. Allow at least 2 hours for your receipt to be returned to you.
For revisions or queries regarding papers already submitted
If you do not receive acknowledgment for your abstract submission or you wish to make any essential revisions to an abstract already submitted, please DO NOT RESUBMIT your abstract, as this may lead to duplication. Please email the Content Coordinator (Please do not email credit card information under any circumstances) with details of any revisions or queries. Please quote your reference number if you have one.
Conference topics
The program will cover the following topics:
1. Buildings and Housing
1.1 Housing sufficiency
1.2 Affordable housing retrofits
1.3 Adapting buildings to climate change
1.4 Equity in the built environment
1.5 Commercial to residential transformations
1.6 Retrofit technologies and approaches
1.7 Occupant behaviour in buildings
1.8 Sustainable architecture
1.9 Informal settlements
1.10 Smart buildings
2. Transportation/Sustainable Transport Systems
2.1 Travel behaviour and mode choice
2.2 Urban land-use planning and design
2.3 Active travel and walking/cycling infrastructure
2.4 Public transport systems
2.5 Social acceptance and backlash to transport policies
2.6 Transport justice and equity
2.7 Transport governance and implementation pathways
2.8 Smart mobility and urban technology
2.9 Proximity-oriented mobility planning (15-minute cities and compact urban forms)
2.10 Travel-demand management and car-use reduction strategies (LTNs, LEZs, car-free zones)
2.11 Electric vehicles and charging infrastructure
2.12 Urban freight, delivery, and logistics
2.13 Autonomous and connected vehicles
2.14 Mobility data, AI, and digital infrastructures
2.15 Travel satisfaction and wellbeing
2.16 Micromobility and shared-mobility systems
2.17 Gender, intersectionality, and mobility justice
3. Healthy Cities
3.1 Urban planning and health
3.2 Transport planning practice and health
3.3 City governance and public health
3.4 Smart cities and health
3.5 Built environment, physical activity and health
3.6 Built environment and mental health
3.7 Built environment and physical health
3.8 Exposure and health effects of air pollution
3.9 Exposure and health effects of noise
3.10 Exposure and health effects of temperature, heat islands and climate change
3.11 Informal settlements and health
3.12 Health impact assessment of urban and transport planning
3.13 Valuations of urban interventions (environment, climate, health etc)
3.14 Health co-benefits of climate mitigation and adaption action
3.15 Sessions of invited projects (e.g. UBDPolicy)
3.16 The use of remote sensing in observations and assessments of cities
3.17 Urban transformation and health (including construction, meanwhile uses…)
3.19 Tole of health in engagement towards urban transitions / societal engagement
3.20 Environmental exposures,
3.21 Health behaviours
3.22 Urban food systems and health
3.23 Housing quality, affordability and health
3.24 BE, social interaction, and health
4. Nature-Based Solutions and Ecosystem Services
4.1 Urban biodiversity and ecosystems
4.2 Greening of cities - governance and planning frameworks
4.3 Greening of cities - benefits and tradeoffs for health and well being
4.4 Benefits of Nature based solutions for planetary and human health
4.5 Nature based solutions - engineering, planning and governance frameworks
4.6 Urban exposure and epidemiology of green space and biodiversity
4.7 Health impact assessment of nature based solutions and green space
4.8 Qualitative and quantitative approaches for assessing green spaces and biodiversity cover.
5. Social Systems, Justice and Governance
5.1 Justice in urban and transport planning
5.2 Planning and social impacts
5.3 Inequalities, environment and health
5.4 Environmental Justice
5.5 City and neighbourhood gentrification
5.6 Stakeholder engagement
5.7 Community participation in planning
5.8 Citizens science
5.9 From science to practice
5.10 Barriers and facilitators for policy changes
5.11 Translating evidence
5.12 Education
5.13 Governance structures for urban transitions
5.14 Complex systems
5.15 Future visioning
5.16 Decision making
5.17 Cultural representation
5.18 Policy acceptability and polarization
5.19 Right to the city
5.20 Power dynamics and social life in cites
6. Climate Action and Resilience
6.1 Climate mitigation
6.2 Adaptation
6.3 Urban resilience
6.4 Urban disasters / extreme weather events (flooding, wildfires, …)
6.5 Net zero
6.6 Climate and health benefits of low carbon interventions
6.7 Equity dimensions of the low carbon transition
7. Circular Economy and Resource Management: Integrated approaches to food-water-energy and waste
7.1 Advancing circularity in urban systems: Integrating food-energy-water nexus with material resource flows,
7.2 Rethinking urban waste management: Circularity hubs for multidimensional value creation
7.3 Urban water systems: Conservation, resource recovery, and industrial symbiosis
7.4 Urban food systems: Production, distribution and optimisation
Science Talks
Urban Transition 2026 is partnering with Science Talks
Widen the reach of your work beyond the conference to an even broader audience…
If your research is accepted for presentation at the conference, oral presenters can include a recording of their oral presentation in the video journal Science Talks.
This is open access, has DOI’s and has no publishing charges for presenters at Elsevier Conferences!
Science Talks is an open access journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed videos of scientific presentations, tutorials, and news and views.
A special issue of Science Talks with a collection of videos from the conference will be produced. We encourage our accepted oral presenters to participate to extend the reach of your presentation to an even broader, global audience. The normal publishing charges are waived for authors from the conference.
The journal is open to submissions from all areas of mathematical and physical sciences, engineering, medicine, biological sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Published videos are accompanied by a manuscript that includes an abstract, figures, tables, and references presented in the video.
There are many benefits to publishing in Science Talks:
Videos are content rich
Video content is more memorable and engaging. All submissions are peer-reviewed, and recordings undergo a quality check prior to publication to ensure our high standards are met.
Videos are easy to submit
Our easy-to-use use template makes it easy for participants to submit a manuscript to accompany their video.
Videos are freely accessible
All Science Talks videos are immediately and freely available to download and use. Published videos receive a DOI so that they can be cited, and they are hosted on ScienceDirect—the world’s largest scientific content platform with 20 million+ active users. We also add closed captioning and a transcript of the video prior to publication.
Videos are free to publish
There are no publication charges for authors who are Elsevier conference presenters.
Videos complement full-text articles
The focus of this special issue is the video presentation, which means that it is complementary to related full-length research articles published in another journal, special issue, conference collection, or as an independent article.
