AESOP newsletter - January 2024

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...

AIM OF THE PRIZE

Teaching and capacity development in the field of spatial planning is one of the main activities of AESOP Member Schools. Thus, in 2002, AESOP introduced a prize (https://aesop-planning.eu/activities/awards/excellence-in-teaching-award ) to recognize and encourage Excellence in Teaching.

Through this award, AESOP celebrates and disseminates innovative practices in teaching in its Member Schools. The broad aim of the Prize is to...

AESOP is looking for candidates willing to organise the 20th AESOP Lecture Series in 2024. 

The application has to be from an Academic on behalf of an AESOP member institution.

The Lecture Series was initiated in 2012 as part of the AESOP’s Silver Jubilee Year celebrations. Since then, a series of Lectures have been regularly organised with prominent ‘urban thinkers’, both academics and practitioners. The idea has been to attract not only...

Dear colleagues,

I am honoured to present the 2024 - 2026 AESOP Excellence in Education Board members and our 2024 strategic advisors! 

Tijana Dabović, Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade

Mina Di Marino, Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Zeynep Enlil, Professor at the Yildiz Technical University

Alenka Fikfak, Professor at the University of Ljubljana

Anna...

Ben Davy

Innovative property for innovative land policy and urban design

Thursday, October 19, 2023, 10:00-13:00 CET - RWTH Aachen University

Moderation: Prof. Christa Reicher, UNESCO Chair for Cultural Heritage and Urbanism, RWTH 

Ben Davy is a former Chair of Land Policy, Land Management, and Municipal Geoinformation at the School of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at the...

It is a pleasure to announce that the International Conference “European Space between Consolidation and New Challenges. Spatial Planning and Spatial Research from 1975 to the Present” will be held in Rome on 10 -11 of October 2024, at the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures, organized by ARL-Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association and University of Rome Tor Vergata.

You are invited to submit abstracts until the 1th March 2024 at the address...

We are thrilled to announce the opening of the registration for the 10th edition of the  Winter School on Research Methodology in Social Sciences, Urban Studies, and Spatial  Planning!  

The Winter School will take place from the 13th to the 16th of February 2024 in  Florence, and we will celebrate the decennial of this event that has been attended by  hundreds of young researchers who achieved their PhD and a successful career...

The European Journal of Spatial Development (EJSD) has been relaunched in 2022 with a new setting. It welcomes the submission of articles that can animate the debates on spatial planning and development, focusing on the main contemporary challenges, taking into consideration the broad interconnection between policy, politics, and polity in situated contexts. The journal adopts a proactive approach to peer review, aiming at accompanying research in improving the quality of...

The passing of Luigi Mazza in May 2023 saddened anybody who knew his witty humour and brilliant intelligence. The remembrance is combined with gratitude for his fruitful contribution to planning theory and practice. The Department of Architecture and Urban Studies commemorates this gentleman planner in a bilingual seminar on the topics that inspired him most in half a century of professional, academic and scientific life.

The AESOP TG Ethics, Values and Planning welcomes contributions to a themed special issue of Transactions of AESOP on the theme Exploring Conformorality in Planning Debates: Perspectives and Implications, under the Guest Editorship of Dr. Stefano Cozzolino (ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Dortmund, Germany) and Dr. Anita De Franco (Milan Polytechnic University, Italy). 

Introducing conformorality

The...

Dear friends and members of the AESOP Thematic Group on Ethics, Values and Planning,

we want to inform and involve you in the planning of future activities.

The thematic group will be present at the AESOP congress with a track on Inclusion: Planning for Fair, Plural, and Welcoming Cities. Deadlines are approaching. Check this link for further information: https://aesop-planning.eu/paris-track-09....

The third event of the two-year period 2023-2024 on the working theme 'Public Spaces, Urban Cultures, and Constructing Peace' was successfully concluded.

This AESOP TG PSUC online workshop was organized together with the TG PSUC and the UnCommon Public Space Group (UPSG) at the University of California, Los Angeles. This half-day online workshop was attended by 14 participants representing 8 countries, each of whom were engaging with events in their own community-based...

The second event of the two-year period 2023-2024 on the working theme 'Public Spaces, Urban Cultures, and Constructing Peace' was successfully concluded.

This AESOP TG PSUC conference in Naples took place 5 - 6 October 2023, Naples, Italy, was organized by the National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development (CNR-IRISS, Italy), together with the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg (Germany), and University of Florence...

TRIA ISSUE N. 32 (June 2024)

http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/tria

CALL FOR PAPERS

Embracing Public Space and Urban Cultures:

Understanding and Acting on Complexity of Contemporary Cities

Guest co-editors: Gabriella Esposito (CNR-IRISS, Italy), Christine Mady (Aalto University, Finland), Stefania Ragozino (CNR-IRISS, Italy)

The...

Organized by Xin Yi, Uwe Altrock,  Xinru Xie and Wenyue Li, in collaboration with further TG members During 2023, the group was coordinated by Xin Yi

The thematic group, China’s urban transformation, focuses the knowledge exchange between Chinese and European urban expertise on urban transformation processes, especially comparing urban regeneration practice...

Associate Professor/Professor of Community Economic Development

Position Type: Faculty Full Time 
Campus: UMass Boston 
Department: Urban Planning and Community Development 
Date opened: January 15, 2024
Applications close: February 15, 2024

General Summary: 

The Department of Urban Planning and Community Development (UPCD) at the University of Massachusetts...