CITIES 2016 International Conference: Coastal Planning for Sustainable Maritime Development

Abstract

PrefaceCITIES conference is an annual conference event held by the Departement of Urban and Regional Planning. CITIES conference has a scale as same as a national and international conference. Since the first time this departement was build in 2002, CITIES conference had been held 7 (seven) times nationally and 2 (two) times Internationally in 2013 and 2015. The purpose of this conference is to provide all of the science and technology result based on research and planning practices, multidiciplinary science, and to push the development of research. There are some conference that we already had before, as follows :Innovations In Spatial Planning Practices for Development and Decentralization (2005),In Search of Integration: Between Planning and Spatial Programming (2008),Toward Sustainable, Competitive, and Autonomous Spatial Planning (2009),Facing the Future: Innovation In Planning Research and Practices (2010),Spatial Planning Research Agenda for Sustainable and Just Urban and Regional Development (2011),Facing Global Challenges In The Future Urban Sphere (2012),Resilient Cities: Beyond mitigation, preparedness, response, dan recovery (2013),Eco City, Utopia or Reality (2014),Intelligent Planning Towards Smart Cities (2015)In 2016, we will be holding an international conference with the topics “Coastal Planning for Sustainable Maritime Development”. Hopefully, from this topics we can deliver many ideas in science and technology field, with coastal area planning implementation in maintaning the growth of maritime activities, especially for some coastal regions in Indonesia.