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About the CITAA 4th Edition:

Recently, great attention has been raised to the transformation of our cities, which has been directed to the field of urban studies. The identity of cities has become a serious issue for many countries at present. That's why; the role of organizations and governments has become to maintain and fix architectural buildings in order to save their heritage.

It is easy to identify a city's identity by looking at its vocabularies that could be embodied through its architecture and arts, where they are the platforms of cultural, traditional, historical and economic aspects. With each city's unique identity, the impact is left behind and history is made. They identify the part of history that defines our past, shapes who we are today, and who we are likely to become in the future. Once we ignore the meaning of our traditions, we're in danger of damaging the underpinning of our identity.

Investigating these diverse approaches taken in both fields; architecture and contemporary art; this conference will discuss how historical cities are going to change in the future and how architecture and arts are to be preserved. It will also discuss the cities' self-identity, how this identity could be affected over the upcoming years as well as how the architecture and contemporary arts of cities could affect its identity.

In this context, IEREK organizes this conference to discuss several topics regarding different vocabularies. For instance, the sacred architecture, heritage buildings, open spaces, landmarks, the street escapes, etc.; all of them have direct influences at the cities' form. The cities' form also receives the indirect impact from the citizens themselves, such as their culture that accordingly depends on the art, which could be seen and embodied through moral, painting, media, digital art, and sculpture. It then discusses the fundamental elements that have the full resilience and responsibility of the identity of the cities.

Following the success of the first, second and third international conferences on "Cities' Identity Through Architecture and Arts", the Fourth Edition of the conference will be held from the 14^th to the 16^th  of Dec,  2020. Benefit from an opportunity and exchange knowledge with experts in this field.

This conference also welcomes research papers that includes different case studies that present many solutions of activating the concept of the responsibility of architecture and arts on the development of our cities. It is an important initiative, which presents a new approach that depends on the available features of cities and how planners and decision-makers use these resources of the cities' features as the thread tip in solving the urban problems that our cities are facing.

All accepted papers of the fourth Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (CITAA) after the peer-review process will be either published as chapters in the Book Series “Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation” (ASTI) by Springer or in The International Journal of Academic Research Community Publication (ARChive) online by IEREK Press.