Italy had the opportunity to host the VIII International Conference on Landscape and Urban Horticulture. The conference, entitled "The role of science in reconciling ecology and technology in landscape and urban horticulture," started by the consideration that scientific efforts are needed in order to improve the comfort and livability of urban areas. Ecology and technology must synergistically interact to overtake issues associated with the coexistence in limited spaces of biological organisms and man-made artefacts. In the conference, the most recent advances in urban green infrastructure and horticulture toward more sustainable and liveable cities were analysed and discussed. This happened in Catania, Sicily, Italy, in a virtual event held on 15-17 December 2021, via GoToWe-binar, due to the COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions. This conference was organized by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A) of the University of Catania and National Research Council (Centro Nazionale del le Ricerche, CNR) of Pisa, under the auspices of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS).
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