AESOP newsletter - February 2025

 Legitimate and Inclusive Planning Education for Changing and Challenging Times

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the 19th Heads of School Meeting of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), taking place in Liverpool.

AESOP CALL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PROFESSIONALIZATION TASK FORCE

Deadline for applications: June the 6th, 2025

Context

The management of AESOP has grown increasingly complex in recent years, particularly due to legal and financial considerations. This challenge has become even more evident as the association resumed its full range of activities after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2024 Annual Congress in Paris welcomed...

We've noted that while young scholars are interested in AESOP Thematic Groups, their full participation can be challenging. We are working to improve engagement and networking opportunities for these young academics.

As senior scholars with valuable experience in these groups, your insights are crucial. We invite you to participate in a brief survey to share your perspectives on enhancing young scholar involvement. Click HERE for the survey.

This survey seeks your...

AESOP has Thematic Groups where members discuss specific topics. We've noticed that young scholars, while interested, may find it challenging to fully participate.

We need your input! Please take the survey. Click HERE for the survey.

We are gathering feedback to explore potential improvements to discussions and networking opportunities within these groups.

It will help us understand:

Remembering Alex Fubini: A Journey Through Urbanism, Education, and Friendship

Umberto Janin Rivolin, on behalf of the Politecnico di Torino DIST friends

I met prof. Alessandro Fubini, Alex for all friends, in the 1980s when I was studying architecture at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He was already a well-respected academic and professional, deeply engaged in spatial planning and development research and practice. At that time, I was still shaping...

Dear colleagues, 

Cardiff University has recently published restructuring proposals that would severely impact on the School of Geography and Planning. We would like to ask planners, friends, colleagues of many years to sign the letter we have drafted below. The letter will be published on major British newspapers and delivered to the University Executive Board.

If you are happy to support us by adding your name as a signatory, please email Francesca Sartorio at...

Call for papers

Infrastructures and Compound Urban Crises: Mediation, Management, and Preparedness

20 – 23 May 2025 | International Roundtable Workshop | Limburg, Netherlands

Cities and urban regions are increasingly grappling with a surge of compound crises characterized by growing frequency, intensity, and interconnectedness [[i]; [ii]; [iii]; [iv]]. Urban crises are driven by global environmental changes, natural hazards,...

THE DYNAMICS OF PANARCHY – 
Sensing, Planning and Designing grounded local-regional transformations

27-28 November 2025, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
23rd Meeting of the AESOP Thematic Group Planning and Complexity
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Planning and design often remain a hierarchical and linear process of planning, implementation and maintenance that meet with increasing political ambitions for inclusion, diversity...

The Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Department of Geography, is looking for a tenure track lecturer (assistant professor) in the domain of urban and landscape design.

As a selected candidate, you will teach in programmes offered in Dutch and English in urban design, spatial planning and urban studies, mainly at the master’s level. Your teaching duties will be in the field of urban and landscape design and research by design and will be aimed at...

City Branding: Concepts and Tools for Reputation Management and Tourism Development

Edited by Alex Deffner, Retired Professor of Urban and Leisure Planning, Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, Greece and Mihalis Kavaratzis, Professor of Place Marketing, Department of Marketing, International Business and Tourism, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, Publication...

Symposium: The political economy of housing production under late neoliberalism

Date: Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd May 2025

Venue: Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London.

Organisers: Dr Chris Foye (University College London), Dr Edward Shepherd (Cardiff University), and Dr. Lan Deng (University of Michigan).

Contact email: c.foye@ucl.ac.uk

Summary

This 2-day symposium will bring together state-of-the-art...