The city cannot be understood in terms of its buildings, infrastructures, and physical geography alone. Urban materiality is inextricably linked with city life: Urban spaces are influenced by the cultures that inhabit them, and urban form shapes these cultures in turn. This conference brings together researchers, planners, designers, policymakers, and architects from around the globe to explore the mutual influence of urban culture and urban form.Impacts of past urban planning reverberate long after original rationales have become obsolete: Fortifications(walls, moats, fortresses), transport infrastructure (railways,highways, city gates), and other elements of the builtenvironment structure future development. Aspects of urbanform contribute to dividing the city into neighbourhoods, determining which areas will flourish while others decay, encouraging shifts from industrial to tourism or leisure use. The city’s architectures affect the cultures of the people who use them: Different kinds of housing foster different forms of sociality or isolation, and different networked infrastructures promote different pathways to the internal cohesion and/or citywide integration of urban cultures. Whether urban cultural landscapes evolve gradually overtime or result from decisive, top-down planning, they reflectand influence the city’s multitude of identities, industries, cultural politics, ethnic relations, and expressive cultures.Presentations will address such issues as:• How do design philosophies influence lived culture?• How does urban morphology change over time alongsidelivelihoods and cultural expectations?• What forms of cultural resistance arise to challenge top-down urban design?• Why do neighbourhoods develop within urban space?• How are elements of the built environment re-purposed?• What can planners and designers do to promote cultural flexibility or sensitivity?• How is ethnic diversity reflected in urban form?• Should designers seek to reinforce or add flexibility to expressions of cultural difference in the city?