2013年5月和11月分别在中国哈尔滨和意大利阿尔盖罗举行了2013第二届城市规划与可持续发展国际会议，这是继2011年之后的又一次中意双方举办的国际研讨会。本次会议的主题为“城市与乡村”，来自世界各国的专家学者针对城乡规划可持续发展的议题在理论、方法和技术等方面展开了充分的研讨和交流。

赖、陆明主编的《城市与乡村（英文版）》为这两次会议的会议论文集，分为主题报告及三个分主题报告共四部分，精选收录了会议宣读论文16篇。

Part 1 Keynote Speech

 The City and the Country: How to Reconstruct a Relationship

 The Knowledge Cities: How the Universities and Science Parks are Shaping the Chinese Urban Environment

 Ports and Cities in the Age of Box Capitalism

 Low Carbon City Planning Strategies Based on Severe Cold Climate Regions

Part 2 Enhancing the Life Quality of Rural Villages through People Empowerment

 Promoting Rural Development to Combat Desertification: An Integrated Approach for Restoring Degraded Rangelands in Morocco

 Digital Hamlets: Innovative Methods and E-Participation Tools Supporting Self-Sustaining Policymaking at the Local Level

Part 3 Managing the Relationship between City and Countryside

 Non-Urbanized Areas, Urban Sprawl and Landscape Protection Planning: Researches and Planning Examples from South Italy

 The Spatial Plan of the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona

 Mobility and Urban form: The Case of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona

 Developing a Green-TOD Urban Design Model to Promote Eco-City Development

 Urban-Rural Sustainable Development and Planning Method Based on Cybernetics

 The Peri-Urban Landscape as Battlefield Between Private and Public Perspectives

Part 4 Cold Climate Regions: Challenging Context to Experiment Low Carbon Target Development

 On the "Low-earbon" Approach to Cope with Weather Vulnerability: A Case Study of the Snow Village of China

 Dynamic Analysis for Solar Energy Availability in Harbin High-rise Residential Area

 Thinking about the Urban Development in Northeast of China in the Background of Economic Transition

 The Europe China Clean Energy Center