City Center
Research Center for Cities and Urbanism
Tel Aviv University
Conferences
Every academic year, City Center is involved with hosting physical or virtual conferences and roundtables on various topics relevant to cities and urbanism research.
31 February & 1-2 September 2021
The conference aims to examine the links between the crisis of democracy with its tension between “non-democratic liberalism’ vs “non-liberal democracy’ and, the 21st century as the age of cities, in which the various properties of cities and urbanism dominate life. This, at the background of Industry 4.0, the Anthropocene, globalization and the COVID-19 pandemic.
22 July 2021
This roundtable discussion attempts to bring together examples from around the world to understand the possibilities of Public-Private or Public-Private-People partnerships in cities, challenges, best practices, and how a more institutionalized version of these arrangements could change the ways in which cities function. organized by City Center research center in Tel-Aviv University and IIT-Madras.
9-10 & 16 September 2020
A comparative discussion on questions and aspects of smart cities, to explicate their potentials, prospects and discontents in general and in the specific reality of Israeli society.
23 May 2019
For municipalities and organizations that promote and affect our public and private places in cities and regions, in open areas and the built environment.
12-14 September 2017
A comparative discussion on questions and aspects of smart cities, to explicate their potentials, prospects and discontents in general and in the specific reality of Israeli society.
02 June 2016
a special conference on the metropolitan concept in Israel, with the participation of heads of authorities and leading experts from academia and the public sector.