ERC concluded the cultural season episode discussion provided by Dr. Wahda Shuker Mahmoud, Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Technology in the presence of Dr. Abdul Hamid Mohammed Jawad, director of the center and a number of heads of academic departments at the university on Wednesday, 20^th April 2015. The lecture was entitled: "The impact of smart growth to curb climate change". The lecture deals with problem of climatic changes  the world witnesses, and the causes of this natural problem which ones are man-made. The lecturer pointed urbanization, growth of cities and the urban spread as one of the main causes of climate change, through burning billions of tons of solid fossil fuels for power generation and caused the emission of greenhouse gases led to global warming, acid rain, further widening ozone hole. She proposes the adoption of smart growth policies as an alternative to urban sprawl and chaotic urban growth to curb climate change and the negative impact on the environment. To tackle the problem from this perspective urban definition of the problem was adopted and its causes on the planning level of urban spread, then the definition of the principles of smart growth and the most important applications on the city's planning and designing, by subtracting number of models for planning and design solutions. The lecturer reached the most important principles of smart growth that is possible to limit the phenomenon of climatic changes in general, and urban areas in particular, which is represented by the model of compact city, and the adoption of public transport systems that rely clean energies, in addition to architectural and planning details and solutions, structural materials in high-efficiency thermal insulation.