Call for Abstracts /// Manchester: Livable Cities 2026
- s-architecture
- Jun 18
- 2 min read
Call Summary:
This conference is interested in readings of the places we inhabit from multiple disciplinary perspectives:
ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING, SOCIOLOGY, ART AND DESIGN, HUMANITIES, ECONOMICS, CULTURAL STUDIES, HISTORY and more.
It seeks contributions INTERNATIONALLY.
It uses the host city of the event, Manchester, as an example of the diverse issues that inform the way we design, manage and live in cities globally today:
A quintessential post-industrial city, Manchester is the birth place of the industrial revolution. One of the UK's most important historic locations, it is a gateway to the north of England and its iconic country estates and landscapes. A national and global transport hub, it is central to the UK economy and has been branded a 'Northern Powerhouse'.
However, alongside these successes are inevitably the long-term problems that typify cities the world over: gentrification, unsustainable design, social divisions, immigration and unaffordable housing, to name but a few.
From this location, the 16th Annual Livable Cities Conference, 'Critiquing the Urban Renaissance' welcomes case studies of innovative projects; overviews of active research programs, examples of historical surveys, insights into effective planning, and speculative papers on theoretical futures.
The overall aim is to broaden the exchange of ideas on the varied issues that inform our understanding of life in cities as a complex and sometimes contradictory phenomenon.
PUBLICATIONS:
Journal Special Issue - UCL Press; Book: Intellect Books Scholars Publishing; Proceedings: AMPS
INDEXING:
SCOPUS, Web of Science (ESCI), Ulrichsweb, JURN, ANVUR, ScienceOpen, EBSCO, DOAJ, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD, Manchester
Enquiries: info@amps-research.com
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