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Newsletter - October 2025
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| 10,000 times thank you, LinkedIn community! 
🎉 𝐖𝐞’𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞: 𝟏𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬! 🎉
We’re thrilled to announce that our association’s LinkedIn page has surpassed 10,000 followers — 10,000 people who believe in our mission and share our passion for better, more sustainable, and more inclusive planning.
This... | Publishing date | Monday, 27 October 2025 | | Category | AESOP |
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| AESOP QUALITY RECOGNITION 2025-2026 - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Dear colleagues,
The AESOP Excellence in Education Board is inviting AESOP school members to apply for AESOP's Quality Recognition Programme.
If your planning programme has been fully delivered and you are looking for:
| Publishing date | Tuesday, 30 September 2025 | | Category | QR |
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| AESOP LECTURE SERIES: Landscapes of elsewhere: on borders, practices and approaches
We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming AESOP Lecture Series event, titled “Landscapes of Elsewhere: On Borders, Practices and Approaches”, taking place on 20 November 2025 at Spazio Craft, Politecnico di Milano, and accessible both in person and online.
Lecture introduction:
Luca Gaeta - Full Professor of Urban Planning, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano.
Speakers:
Negar... | Publishing date | Monday, 6 October 2025 | | Category | AESOP |
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| AESOP Task Force on AI in Planning - CALL FOR MEMBERSHIPAESOP Task Force on AI in Planning
CALL FOR MEMBERSHIP
Deadline: November 15, 2025
Organizers: Juliana Martins, Paulo Silva, Thorsten Wiechmann
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the landscape of urban planning, research, education, and practice. Recognizing its potential and challenges, the AESOP CoRep decided during its meeting in Istanbul in July to establish an AESOP Task Force on AI in Planning.... | Publishing date | Friday, 10 October 2025 | | Category | MEMBERS |
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| AESOP at the ACSP Annual Conference, Minneapolis, October 23–25, 2025AESOP Vice President Karina Pallagst and AESOP’s GPEAN representative Hossam Hewidy represented AESOP at the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), held in Minneapolis, USA, from October 23 to 25, 2025.
Both participated in a GPEAN-organized session on “Planning Core Competencies”, chaired by Deden... | Publishing date | Tuesday, 28 October 2025 | | Category | AESOP |
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| WPSC2026: Call for abstracts, roundtable proposals and PhD workshop applications is open!WORLD PLANNING SCHOOLS CONGRESS 2026: Call for abstracts, roundtable proposals and PhD workshop applications is open!
The 6th World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC) will take place from June 29th to July 3rd, 2026, in Espoo & Helsinki, Finland. The WPSC PhD workshop will be organized in Tampere prior to the congress (June 26-29, 2026).
The call for abstracts, roundtable proposals and PhD workshop applications is now open until November 11th, 23:59 EET... | Publishing date | Friday, 19 September 2025 | | Category | AESOP |
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| WPSC2026: Call for abstracts, roundtable proposals and PhD workshop applications is open!WORLD PLANNING SCHOOLS CONGRESS 2026: Call for abstracts, roundtable proposals and PhD workshop applications is open!
The 6th World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC) will take place from June 29th to July 3rd, 2026, in Espoo & Helsinki, Finland. The WPSC PhD workshop will be organized in Tampere prior to the congress (June 26-29, 2026).
The call for abstracts, roundtable proposals and PhD workshop applications is now open until November 11th, 23:59 EET... | Publishing date | Friday, 19 September 2025 | | Category | AESOP |
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| Workshop: How do we say future? Istanbul 2026 - Deadline Extended: 16 November 2025 For the Workshop: How do we say future? in Istanbul 2026 the Deadline for applications has been extended to 16 November 2025.
The Workshop will be a co-production of the AESOP TG Urban Futures and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul. With "How do we say future?" we want to explore the ways we envision and narrate futures and how this is shaped not only by who is involved, but also by which types of tools and approaches we use,... |
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| Autumn/winter 2025 Lecture Series on Small TownsFirst European Lecture Series on Small Towns will start in autumn/winter 2025. This lecture series explores current research and practices relating to the development of small and medium-sized towns in selected European countries. It discusses ongoing spatial dynamics, ranging from small neighbourhoods and inner cities to regional and national perspectives. These dynamics are closely linked to political debates and planning strategies in the relevant countries, as well as to... | Publishing date | Thursday, 21 August 2025 | | Category | Small Towns |
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| Call for contributions | "Degrowth and the Politics of Space: Tools for Thought and Action"
The call for contributions for the upcoming conference "Degrowth and the Politics of Space: Tools for Thought and Action" is now open.
The conference will take place in Amsterdam from 21st to 23rd October 2026.
The conference will be the first international event to address spatial issues (across disciplines) from a degrowth perspective. It has been organized by a collective of engaged scholars. It is open to both scholars and activists... | Publishing date | Friday, 3 October 2025 | | Category | MEMBERS |
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| Call for papers | Special Issue “Beyond Resilience” – Perspectives in Architecture and UrbanismBeyond Resilience
Submission deadline: 03 November 2025
The concept of sustainability has come under increasing scrutiny in architectural and urban discourse. While its underlying principles remain widely accepted, its applications have often failed to meaningfully address systemic issues and environmental challenges. The term itself has become so diffuse and diluted that it now seldom produces substantive impact in either theory... | Publishing date | Thursday, 9 October 2025 | | Category | JOURNALS |
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| CFP_10th International Conference on Urban e-Planning, 8 - 10 April 2026
Call for Abstracts
10th International Conference on 'Urban e-Planning' - 2026
[Virtual / Online]
Lisbon, Portugal, 8 - 10 April 2026
The increasing prevalence of digital innovations presents both significant opportunities and complex challenges for urban and regional planners globally. The 10th International Conference on 'Urban e-Planning' brings together interdisciplinary research on innovative theory and practice... | Publishing date | Sunday, 12 October 2025 | | Category | MEMBERS |
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| "Re-centring land conflicts in the post-globalisation order" - SASE 2026 mini-conference call for papersWe invite abstract submissions for the ‘Re-centring land conflicts in the post-globalisation order’ mini-conference (MC11), as part of the SASE 2026 Conference in Bordeaux (1-3 July).
In this mini-conference, we are seeking to have a critical debate about land struggles over sovereignty, resources and means of survival. We are inviting folks to submit abstracts (no more than 1000 words) which raise land as the main object of analysis of power in a ‘post-globalisation... | Publishing date | Monday, 27 October 2025 | | Category | MEMBERS |
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| Call for papers - Special Issue on Data Centre Urbanism (Urban Research & Practice)We are excited to announce a Call for Papers for an upcoming Special Issue in Urban Research & Practice focused on DataCentre Urbanism.
We welcome contributions that address one or several of the following topics:
- Emerging forms of (local) regulations in planning and land use policy
- Regional and local economic effects of the data centre economy (real estate, employment, taxes, etc.), including geographic patterns (mapping)
- Conflicts and how they are negotiated (and... | Publishing date | Wednesday, 15 October 2025 | | Category | JOURNALS |
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| CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES PHD STUDENTSHIP IN CITIESCall for Applications
For September 2026 entry, the Bloomberg Philanthropies PhD Studentships in Cities will be available for a number of programmes across the Departments of Government, Geography, Management and Sociology at the London School of Economics & Political Science. Students of all nationalities are eligible for this funding.
These Studentships will be encouraging a collaborative approach involving city governments as co-hosting institutions.... | Publishing date | Monday, 13 October 2025 | | Category | MEMBERS |
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| Curator of the Loeb Fellowship - Harvard Graduate School of Design Curator of the Loeb Fellowship
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Full-time 001179SR
Nominations may be submitted online here.
Company Description
Why join the Harvard Graduate School of Design?
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) educates leaders in design, research, and scholarship to make a resilient, just, and beautiful world. The GSD offers an unparalleled setting for interaction... | Publishing date | Wednesday, 6 August 2025 | | Category | JOBS |
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| Assistant Professor - Design & Urban Transformation City and Regional PlanningPosition overview
Salary range: The current salary range for this position is $80,800 - $128,700 (9-month academic year salary), however, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions.
Anticipated start: July 1, 2026
Application Window
Open date: August 12, 2025
Next... | Publishing date | Tuesday, 19 August 2025 | | Category | JOBS |
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Full Professor Giancarlo Cotella Secretary General: Association of European Schools of Planning AESOP SECRETARIAT GENERAL
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
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Pre-Conference Seminar 'Adaptive governance: systems perspectives' (01 Oct 2025)