The Second International Conference on Whole Life Urban Sustainability and its Assessment will be held on 22nd - 24th April 2009, in Loughborough, UK. The conference will open with registration on the afternoon of Wednesday 22 April 2009. There will be three keynote speakers presenting to a plenary session on Thursday 23 April:

Peter Head (Director of Global Planning, Arup);

Nigel Ingram (Director, Joseph Rowntree Foundation); and

Lynne Sullivan (Executive Director, Sustainable Design Inbuilt). This will be followed by a presentation of approximately eighty papers in parallel workshop sessions covering the following topics:

Urban planning and design for sustainability;

Sustainable buildings: design, performance and assessment; Stakeholder participation;

Sustainability measures, assessment theory, complexity and uncertainty;

Quality of life and the urban environment; and

Urban sustainability and move to low carbon developments. We very much hope that you will be able to join us at this event and look forward to a vibrant exchange of ideas on urban sustainability assessment.