AESOP LECTURE SERIES

The AESOP lecture series aim to attract the planning community and a wider audience of politicians, community leaders, organisations, businesses and the media to promote planning as a discipline that can contribute to the quality of life, help find new tools of governance for urban structures and function as an effective mediator between the many stakeholders.

News Items

Past and present news items on the AESOP Lecture Series

Speaker, Title and City Year
1 Klaus R. Kunzmann - Planning Education in Europe: Challenges and Pathways into the Future - Selm, Germany 2012
2 Andreas Faludi -Twentieth Century Foundations of European Planning - Paris, France 2012
3 Danuta Hübner - Space and Place as Integrating Factors in Policy-Making: New Models of Territorial Governance in Europe - Brussels, Belgium 2012
4 Peter Hall - Squaring the Circle: How to Reconcile Apparently Impossible Contradictions in Contemporary Urban Policy - London, England 2013
5 Juval Portugal - The Future is Not What It Used to BeComplexity, Cognition and the City – Implication to Planning - Amsterdam, Netherlands 2013
6 Cliff Hague - A Christmas Carol: the Ghosts of Planning, Past, Present and Future - Riga, Latvia 2013
7 Lecture 1: Peter Hall, Andreas Faludi, Louis Albrechts, Judith Innes and Charles Hoch / Lecture 2:  Peter Marcuse, Barrie Needham, Cliff Hague, Michael Batty and Rachelle Alterman / Lecture 3: John Friedmann, Patsy Healey, Gerhard Schimak, Klaus Kunzmann and John Forester - Evolution of Planning thought lecture series - Wie, Austria 2014
8 Sławomir Gzell and Peter Batey - (Re)discovering modernity in town planning;... The never ending story? - Warsaw, Poland 2014
9 Klaus R. Kunzmann, Bénédicte Le Ray, Katarina Bačić and Ivana Rašić Bakarić - Creative industries' click with the economy… City slickers? - Zagreb, Croatia 2015
10 Engelbert Lütke Daldrup and Ann Singleton - Migrants and Cities - Berlin, Germany 2015
11 Shipra Narang Suri and Maroš Finka - New Urban Agenda: Global Perspective And Local Interpretation - Bratislava, Slovakia 2017
12 Emmanuel Moulin and Tobias Kettner -The Future Of The European City In The Global Perspective - Dortmund, Germany 2017
13 Simin Davoudi - New Frontiers For Spatial Planning In Times Of Uncertainty: Dealing With Climate Change And Environmental Risks - Tirana, Albania 2018
14 Barrie Needham and Eveline Van Leeuwen - Lessons from Paradise - Wageningen, Netherlands 2019
15 Manuel Aalbers And Iván Tosics - From The Financialization Of The City To Planning For Efficient Housing - Lisboa, Portugal 2019
16 Jean Hillier - Rethinking Planning In A More-Than-Human World - Berlin, Germany 2019
17 Bruno Latour, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Robert Beauregard, Yvonne Rydin - Cities On Earth: The Politics And Design Of Spatial Development Face To The New Climate Regime - Paris, France (Cancelled) 2019
18 Willem Salet - How Public Norms Help To Cope With Uncertainty In Complex Practices Of Planning - Istanbul, Turkey 2021
19 Ben Davy - Innovative Property For Innovative Land Policy And Urban Design - Aachen, Germany 2023
20 Oren Yiftachel - Planning, Identity And Violent Conflict: The Spatial Making Of Apartheid In Israel/Palestine - Lisboa, Portugal 2024
21 Christopher Webster - Healthier Cities, Healthier People – Can We Re-Unite Urban Planning Practice With Epidemiological Research To Foster Active Longevity By Design? - Birmingham, England 2024