Byliv og Byrumskvalitet: ny viden, metoder og vidensbehov, København, 24. juni 2009, Proceedings

The interest in urban spaces and their qualities has become stronger in recent years. A substantial volume of projects aims to create attractive urban spaces reasons of Sustainability, Quality of Life and urban vitality. But who actually uses the urban spaces, which urban spaces are used? How do they use them? What characterizes the good urban space? And how and by who is it evaluated? How is a better co-operation between urban space researchers, decision makers and users established? Is it the right urban spaces which receive investments? How can research optimize the basis for decisions? 

At the conference "Urbanism & urban qualities - new data & methodologies", researchers, practitioners and decision makers where invited to present and discuss thoughts and ideas about urban spaces with an emphasis upon new insights gained from the developments in survey technologies and modelling approaches. The conference aim was to provide insight in the current stage of urban space research and practices, address the challenges and opportunities, and finally to assemble Danish researchers and practitioners with a focus on urbanism and development of urban spaces as a possible offset for future. 

The conference was held the 24th of June 2009 at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. 74 persons- all affiliated with Danish research, design, and planning institutions -  were registered as participants. 

The 20 presentations on the conference presented state-of-the-art results and approaches from Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Israel and China. The proceedings presents the biographies of the speakers, abstracts, and papers when such are available. 

We as organisers of the conferences and editors of the proceedings, wish to thank the foundation RealDania for their financial support which made the conference possible.