During the last conference in India, the decision on our next meeting to be hold in Tel Aviv 7-16. July 2010 was confirmed with professor Izhak Schnell as local organizer.

The URBAN Commission meeting will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 12 – 16, 2010 inside the IGU Regional meeting including other commissions. The Regional Conference will be in général on the thematic of “Bridging Diversity in a Globalizing World”.

THE URBAN COMMISSION MEETING WILL BE DIVIDED IN THREE PARTS:

1. July 6-10, The urban commission’s preconference field.
Including a workshop on small towns in NORTHERN TOWNS, DEALING WITH Jewish and Arab neighboring towns and all the socio-political issues
concerned.

2. July 12-16, The urban commission’s main conference.
Including the lectures of the commission’s members.

3. July 17-21, The post conference field trip.
Including a workshop. This 3rd part is optional

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The conference program has been loaded on the conference website: 

Leaders: Prof. Izhak Schnell and Prof. Rassem Khamaisi

FIELD TRIP PRECONFERENCE’S THEME:

DIVERSE SMALL TOWNS IN NORTHERN ISRAEL

Preconference_Field_Trip.pdf)

The IGU Urban Commission will hold its sessions during the IGU Regional Conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS

ABSTRACTS DEADLINE EXTENSION: NOW MARCH 15th 2010

Call4Papers.pdf

Participants are welcome to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentation. Please indicate on your abstract whether you prefer oral or poster presentation, and indicate that the abstract is for presentation during the Urban Commission Sessions.

Abstracts will be sent for review and authors will be informed in due time whether their abstract/s have been accepted. Inclusion of abstracts in the scientific program and on the Disc of Abstracts is dependent on payment of registration fees.

Abstracts must be submitted online as per the link below:

• http://smit2011.net/submission_form_en.aspx or via email to: geography@targetconf.com

and please send it also to the three following addresses:

• Schnell@post.tau.ac.il
• cwm@geo.ku.dk
• celine.rozenblat@unil.ch

If by email, the abstract should be saved as a Word document and sent as an attachment, please do not send as a PDF file. If using Word 2007,
please save file as a document that can be opened in Word 2003.”

GENERAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION

VENUE
The Dan Panorama Hotel is the conference venue. The hotel is situated on the Tel Aviv beachfront promenade, overlooking the sparkling waters
and white sandy beaches of the Mediterranean.

TIMETABLE
The IGU 2010 Regional Conference will commence with a plenary lecture in the late afternoon of Monday, July 12, 2010

REGISTRATION
Kindly either register on-line on the conference website: www.igu2010.com or by completing the attached Registration Form

REGISTRATION FEE PER PARTICIPANT

More details:

GeneralConferenceInformations.pdf

See attached file for details and informations:

Post_conference_field_trips_and_tours_informations.pdf