The Fifth UCLG ASPAC Congress, to be held during September 3rd to 5th this year, will take place in Formosa Regent Hotel, Taipei. With the theme “Adaptive City: Embedding Design in City Governance”, the Congress will discuss four major issues in concurrent sessions: “Development and Application of Smart Cities”, “Adaptive City- the Spirit of Taipei”, “Developing Trend of Green Transportaion”, and “How to Establish Material Recycling and Zero-waste Society”.