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The 3rd Sharjah Urban Plan Symposium (SUPS) invites scholars and practitioners to join in this debate at the two-day conference by presenting leading edge concepts in original papers.

The organisers intend to publish the proceedings for wide international dissemination.

The general themes we wish to cover in this Symposium are:
  • Globalization and Emerging Approaches to Planning
  • Vision Planning (VP): Origin & Concept
  • Vision Planning: Experiences Around the World
  • Vision Planning for Competitive Industrial Development
  • Approaches to Vision Planning : NSDP and the Rest Compared
  • NSDP in the Age of Information Technology
  • NSDP: Conceptual, Methodological, and Institutional Dimensions
  • NSDP and Public Policy-Building Process
  • NSDP as a Development Methodology
  • NSDP as an Institution-Building Tool
  • NSDP as a Spatial Planning Concept
  • NSDP as a Sectoral Planning Tool
  • NSDP and Plan Implementation and Evaluation
  • Governing Vision Planning & NSDP
  • NSDP and Public Participation
  • NSDP for Resource Mobilisation and Utilisation
  • NSDP and Geographic Information Systems
  • NSDP and Competitive Development of Cities
  • NSDP and Property Development
  • NSDP and Urban Planning and Design
  • NSDP and Urban Environmental Planning
  • NSDP and Urban Infrastructure
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