Conference Series “City of the Future”

The aim of the conferences is to promote the internationally established research field “Urban Health” in Germany and to initiate a national science – practice dialogue on the basis of current research findings.

The following conferences took place:

Fall Symposium Hamburg 2025

Health-related areas of tension in the Hamburg metropolitan region – perspectives from neighborhoods and urban regions. 18 November 2025. The aim of the event was to provide insights into interdisciplinary research projects on urban and regional health. 
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Bochum 2024

 “City of the Future – Healthy, Sustainable Metropolises”, Integrated urban development: perspectives from science and practice, 25-26 November 2024. The conference addressed the following topics through various formats, including discussions and excursions.
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Bonn 2023

Institute of Hygiene & Public Health, Bonn University Hospital, Nov. 21-22, 2023: Therapeutic Urban Landscapes under Stress. Conservation, development opportunities and displacement risks in a world of change.
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Essen 2022

Institute for Urban Public Health, University Medicine Essen, University Duisburg-Essen and Institute for Urban Planning and European Urban Studies, RWTH Aachen University, 08.-09.11.2022: “Urban Health Landscapes of the Future – Health | Architecture | Environment”.
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Online-Conference 2021

University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Health Sciences, AG 7: Environment and Health, 18.11.2021: “Health and sustainable urban development in the field of tension: analyses, strategies & practice”.
(as a tandem event “Sustainable Urban Health” together with the 5th Hamburg Symposium on Regional Health Care, 17.11.2021).
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Online event 2020

Bielefeld University, Faculty of Health Sciences, AG 7: Environment and Health, 27.10.2020: “Sustainable Urban Health”.

Stuttgart 2017

University of Stuttgart, Institute of Sport and Exercise Science / Chair of Sports and Health Sciences, 08.-09.11.2017: “Shaping the city of the future: Lifetime mobility in any weather”
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Dortmund 2016

TU Dortmund, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, 09.06.2016: „City of the Future: Promoting Sustainability and Health Together – New Methodological Approaches“
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Bielefeld 2014

Bielefeld University, Faculty of Health Sciences, AG 7: Environment and Health 03.–04.11.2014: “Healthy urban landscapes of the Future”
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Wuppertal 2013

Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, 28.11.2013: “Urban change as an opportunity – for climate, environment, health and quality of life”
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Bolzano 2012

Free University of Bolzano (Italy), Faculty of Science and Technology, 25.–26.10.2012: “City of the Future: green, healthy, livable”
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Hamburg 2011

HafenCity University of Hamburg, Department of Urban Planning and Regional Development, 12.-13.10.2011: “City of the Future: Green and Healthy? Sustainable and health-promoting development of urban areas in the 21st century”
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