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The 7th Internation£[ Conference on underground spaces and design, under the auspices of its theme, "Indoor Cities of Tomorrow," explored the kinds of partnerships and interdisciplinary work that are required to create livable, comfortab]e large-scale underground environments. Reflecting the focus on interdisplinarity, presenters and panelists ran the gamut from civil engineers, architects and city planners to firefighters, legal specialists, and university researchers. Plenary sessions and panels addressed broad questions of underground space use related to, for example, underground parking, conditions for the emergence of an indoor city, and underground safety in large underground commercial spaces. Smaller workshop sessions dealt with partnerships, interdisciplinarity, indoor cities, and technological innovations.
Approximately 300 participants from 24 countries attended the conference, which was sponsored by ACUUS (Associated research Centers for the Urban Underground Space). Established in ]L992 at the 5th International conference in Delft, Holland, ACUUS now represents a coalition of five underground space organizations from the United States, Holland, Japan, France, and Canada. Jacques Besner, coordinator of the conference, announced that ACUUS is working on a charter for UNESCO on subsurface development, and that its main task for the immediate future is to develop a permanent site on the World Wide Web.
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