On the ( historical ) Interaction between Urban Development and Water management in Global Metropolitan Delta’s

rope seminar on urban development and water management at Southeast University of Nanjing, China during 28-29 November 2015, Ghent University will host the second seminar focused on Global Metropolitan Delta’s. Reason for this is the determination that Metropolitan Delta’s - like those of the Yangtze, Pearl River, Mekong, Irriwaddy, Ganges, Indus, and Eurodelta - face the same challenges with regard to climate change, water management, irrigation and food production, and (as gateways to their hinterlands) transport and distribution.Many cities and towns in these regions are of historic with very rich heritage. Moreover, as intensive polynuclear urbanised regions of big and smaller cities along the estuaries of the world famous rivers, it is expected that they have to deal with same kind of economic, mobile and environmental issues, also based on long run geo-morphological path dependencies with regard to (regional) urban layout and adaptive governance. Therefore the seminar welcomes ideas, papers and contributions in Global Metropolitan Delta’s.

Co-Sponsors:

Urban Planning Society of China

School of Architecture, Southeast University

Center for Mobility and Spatial Planning，Ghent University, Belgium

Co-Organizers:

Academe of Urban History and Theory,Urban Planning Society of China

The Key Laboratory of Urban and Architectural Heritage Conservation(SEU),  Ministry of Education,China

Supporter: 

UNESCO Chair in Cultural Resource Management

Date: 29-31 March 2017

Place: Ghent University, Belgium