AESOP newsletter - November 2023

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS -  36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024 Paris, July 8-12 2024
GAME CHANGER? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions

Call for abstracts EXTENDED until 31 January 2024!

The Paris Congress will examine a key question at the heart of the multiple ongoing transitions: what exactly constitutes a game changer?
For over a century, European urban planning has depended heavily on publicly-driven land urbanization,...

REVERSIBILITY, FRUGALITY AND CARE IN THE CONTEXT OF URBAN TRANSITIONS

Planning education for recovery and resilience

Iuav - University of Venice

The conditions that led to the birth of the modern city over the course of the 20th Century have changed radically. Today, multiple and dramatic emergencies (economic and financial, social, environmental and climatic, health, and geopolitical) call for critical reflection on the nature and goals of urban planning. After years of progressive reduction of public resources, European...

The Conference Officer (CO) is a Member of the Executive Committee of AESOP with responsibility to support the launch of major events in which AESOP is directly involved (e.g. the Annual Congress, the PhD Workshop, the Heads of School Meeting); oversee the progress of the LOC in the above events; liaise with the ExCo and LOC for timely decisions and report on the preparation of major events to ExCo and CoRep.

Application deadline: 17 February 2024...

The Editors are pleased to announce the publication of Transactions of AESOP 7.1.

This issue brings together a diverse set of papers that address key contemporary planning themes and agendas with a  particular  emphasis  on  appreciating  the  importance  of  time  and  space  in  shaping  the  substantive matters planning addresses and the manner in which it responds to these.

Collectively the...

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) released a job announcement for new Executive Director:

R E F E R E N C E : EOSG/SLA/2023 /3

Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
The United Nations welcomes applications for the position of Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). This position is at the Under-Secretary-General level and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Secretariat...

74th World Town Planning Day Statement

PLANNING ACTION FOR A JUST TRANSITION TO A NET-ZERO CLIMATE RESILIENT WORLD

Every person and community in the world today is threatened by a deepening climate and biodiversity emergency, compounded by conflicts, the pressures of demographic and other societal change and the continuing legacy of the pandemic.

Cities host more than half of the global population and are large contributors to greenhouse gas emissions...

Applications are now open for our MRes (Master of Research) Interdisciplinary Urban Design at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, for 2024/2025.

Apply at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught-degrees/inter-disciplinary-urban-design-mres#application
More details: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/study/postgraduate/interdisciplinary-urban-design-mres
Instagram: @mresidurbandesign

This a unique and in-depth research...

The Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) is currently establishing an international working group (IAG) “Resilient Metropolitan Regions – Spatial Planning and Management for Urban Transformation” and looking for participants. The members of the working group will work for approximately three years together and address the topic from inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives.

The central objective of the IAG "Resilient Metropolitan Regions...

ECPR Workshop on Exposing the Deep Politics of Land: Conceptual Contestations in Land Debates (25-28 March 2024)

Dear Colleagues,

I am calling for papers for a European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) virtual workshop on Exposing the Deep Politics of Land: Conceptual Contestations in Land Debates. The workshop will examine the role of political concepts in shaping institutions of land governance and ownership. The aim is...

We are happy to announce the forthcoming XI AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference “Building Movement, Achieving Transformation”. The conference will be held in Brussels and Ghent (Belgium), from the 19th to 22th of June 2024.

The XI AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference asks how sustainable food planning can become more embedded into socially innovative and transformative movements. How can we strategically...

Conference of the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures

“Public space and peace building: from degenerative to regenerative environments”

28-30 January 2024, Pretoria, South Africa

Hosted by the University of Pretoria, Department of Town and Regional Planning

The conference is part of the series of events to the working theme 2022-2024 of the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (TG PSUC; https://aesop-planning.eu/resources/news-archive/thematicgroups/public-spaces-and-urban-cultures)...

Dear colleagues,

Please take note of a call for papers for a special issue in BELGEO which might be of interest to many in our TG:

« Régions en évolution. Transitions, renouvellement et formes émergentes de régionalisation » / “Regions in evolution. Transitions, renewal and emerging forms of regionalisation”

-   CALL FOR PAPERS N°16   - 

The productive city in the age of ecological transition: issues and debates for urban planning and development

This issue of RIURBA is part of the scientific debate on productive activities. It echoes the political and practical concerns that turn them into an object of public policy, questioning the conditions of their location, territorial and urban integration, functioning, their effects...

Attention young researchers! Join us in IOER Dresden, on December 15th, 2023, for the DLGS Winter School, where we'll delve into the topic of sustainable urbanism and spatial planning. This event offers a unique platform to engage with renowned scholars and experts from various disciplines, providing a comprehensive understanding of sustainability science. Beyond the enriching academic experience, you'll have ample networking opportunities to connect with fellow enthusiasts,...

This collection of essays analyses the state of the planning system in England and offers a robust, evidence-based review of over a decade of change since the Conservative-led coalition government came to power. With a critique of ongoing planning reforms by the UK government, the book argues that the planning system is often blamed for a range of issues caused by ineffective policy making by government. It questions whether it is planning that is failing, or...

The School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy is seeking expressions of interest from prospective PhD students to fill one fully funded PhD studentships in the Planning subject area. A PhD will be funded in the following two broad thematic research areas:

About the School

The School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental...

C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Network is funded by the prestigious Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and led by University College Dublin (Assist. Prof. Aura Istrate). There are 12 vacancies for highly ambitious Doctoral Candidates (DC) to conduct research on how to advance towards achieving climate-neutral cities from different dimensions (Urban Nature, Urban Mobility, Built Form, Energy, Circularity) through citizen engagement and decision-making support.

There...

The Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Associaton (ARL) is looking for a research associate (postdoc) on the sustainable planning of urban ponds, in the Leibniz Association-funded Leibniz Excellence Project "Pollution in urban ponds, eco-evolutionary dynamics and ecosystem resilience" (POUNDER) from March 1, 2024. The position will be based in Hannover, Germany.

The overall aim of the project is to assess the importance of urban ponds as nature-based solutions...

Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. Aalto University has six schools with 12 000 students and nearly 400 professors. Our campuses are in Espoo, Finland.

The School of Engineering is an international unit with nearly 70 talented professors and 3400 full-time students. Currently, the Department of Built...