Between June 20 and 22, 2019, the City Futures IV Conference was held at the UCD Dublin O’Brien Centre for Science in Dublin, Ireland. Jointly organized by #EURA and #UAA, the theme of the conference was ‘Creating Just and Sustainable Cities’ with a special focus on issues of inclusion, smart specialization and diversification, environmental challenges, democracy, smart and cultural cities.

URT’s Zdenka Havlova and Marco Reggiani joined with a paper titled ‘Hijacking Culture for Corporate Gains: The Forfeiture of Diversity in Corporatized and Commercialized Urban Space of Shibuya, #Tokyo’. Presented within the Cultural Cities track, the paper investigates ways corporations hijack and manufacture #culture, and how this ‘fabrication’ affects the diversity of the urban realm of #Shibuya.