54th IFHP World Congress, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Sunday, 07 February 2010
The 54th IFHP World Congress will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The congress will be hosted by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and it takes place on 13-17 November 2010.
The Congress will elaborate on the main theme 'Building communities in the city of the future'. The subthemes, discussed in three days, are ‘Low-cost/low-income Communities and Social Sustainability’, ‘Public Involvement and Governance in Today’s World‘ and ‘Urban design and Social Relations: Urban Modernism 50 Years on’. In 2010, we celebrate the 50st birthday of the modernist city and capital of brazil, Brasilia. We cannot miss this opportunity to address urban modernism and this fascinating city specifically. Therefore we dedicated the third sub theme to the heritage of the modern movement.
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