Silk Cities is an independent contextual platform for knowledge sharing and communication between built environment professionals (e.g. urban designers, planners and community developers) based within a country and their peers and established academics based abroad, who are interested in that country as a result of their ethnic origins or professional activities.
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Silk Cities 2017 Conference Update
Silk Cities is pleased to announce that special sessions have been added to the Conference programme. They are listed below.
1- Preservation and Urban Planning in Practice
2- Reconstruction of War-torn Silk Roads Cities
3- Silk Roads Cities as Smart Cities
Silk Cities 2017 Conference Update
We have teamed up with Springer International to publish a peer-reviewed book based on a selection of accepted papers after the conference.