With half of the world’s population already living in urban areas and the enlargement of production as the necessity for future economic growth, cities are already merging production in its fabric.
Traditional forms of production and urban planning methods contributed to the growth of social, economic and ecological problems that mark the millennium. Sprawling, inequality, pollution, rigid constrains, zoning obstacles define everyday life of urban environments. The demand for a new approach in organizing production, with the opposite directives and goals of the existing traditional method, is ever-growing. 
One of the systems that theory offers as a solution to the inherited chaos is the system of production in urban environments. 
Production in urban environments can be defined as industrial, manufactural and agricultural as well as by other services provided within and around cities to the free market. Services include the use of urban residents as labourers, links to urban consumers, direct impacts on urban economy (positive and negative), being a part of the urban spatial system, competing for land with other urban functions, being influenced by urban policies and plans, use of typical urban resources, etc.
Although researches on this topic have been executed in various disciplines, it seems that all are confined within a specific scientific niche, lacking the understanding of the possibilities that the system offers. The most striking feature which distinguishes production in urban environments, is that it is integrated into the urban economy and is embedded in -and interacting with- the spatial structure of the city. In future this production will become an integral part of the urban system, with a capability to change indefinitely. 
The overall objectives of this conference are to offer a synergetic approach that can contribute to the future studies and to the development, implementation and promotion of the knowledge of production in urban environments, through the discussion and sharing of multidisciplinary knowledge as well as experiences and scientific and technical results.