AESOP newsletter - April 2024

AESOP COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES – National Representative Elections 2024

Dear Colleagues,

The 2022-2024 mandatory period of the National Representatives in the AESOP Council of Representatives will soon be over, and new National Representatives need to be elected/appointed. The right to elect new National Representatives rests with Full Members of AESOP in each country. If you are interested in joining the Co-Rep please be directly in touch with your current...

Dear Aesop Community, 

The Paris LOC signed an agreement with Citè Universitaire for accommodation at a discounted price.

The reservation will be managed throughout the AESOP website.

The single room at Cité Universitaire has a private bathroom (including WIFI, linens, and towels: reception from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.). Breakfast is included at 127 euros per night. The stay will necessarily end on Friday, July 12th. Please specify your name, telephone,...

FULL PAPER SUBMISSION

The Full Paper Submission for the AESOP 2024 Paris Congress is now open!

Please visit the Full paper authors' guidelines page for more information!

Deadline for submission 13th May 2024

(To submit a full paper is NOT compulsory. However, only Full papers submitted by the above deadline are eligible for the Best AESOP Congress Paper Award and will be published in the Congress Book of Proceedings)

Best...

 BACKGROUND

Human settlement have always developed around centres. Whether it is the ancient Greek polis or the 20th century neighbourhood, each has concentrated different human activities and formed a specific node in geographical space. Today, the natural mechanisms of concentration are being undermined by various dispersal processes of a multiscalar and temporal nature.

The networked society, demographic transitions, the global economy, instant communication,...

We are excited to share the final international symposium for our international research network TOD-IS-RUR (Transit Oriented Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Rural-Urban Regions), taking place at Cité Descartes, École nationale des ponts et chaussées and Université Gustave Eiffel (Paris) on the 23rd May 2024.

This one-day symposium focuses on mobility-urbanisation relations beyond the city, with a specific focus on suburban, peri-urban,...

Within the framework of the scientific context of final conference of the EFUA H2020 project (https://www.efua.eu/ ), Politecnico di Torino is organising an intensive half-day training workshop for city officials on 26 September 2024 in Brussels. The event, will help to foster cities’ initiatives in the field, through contributing to the design of effective planning processes and instruments. The EFUA team will share expertise, the H2020 Project results and set...

The hugely popular JRC webinar series is back starting on Thursday 16th May 2024 10am BST / 11am CEST 

This series focuses on The Future of Cities report which identifies challenges influencing the future of cities in Europe and beyond. It also presents several perspectives from which to look at resolving these issues. It is an initiative of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the science and knowledge service of...

We are pleased to announce that abstract submissions for the 2024 UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference are now open.

The University of Reading will host this year’s conference, from Monday 2nd September to Wednesday 4th September, at our London Road Campus (25 minutes' walk/10 minutes by bus from Reading Train Station). This year’s theme is ‘Planning for Nature/Nature of Planning’, focusing on how the multiple crises facing our natural environment...

28-29 November 2024, RWTH Aachen University

Time is too often a peripheral element in scholarly and practical discourses. It is frequently treated as a neutral background factor instead of an active force that shapes cities and their planning. However, complex socio-spatial systems continuously evolve and transform over time in ways that are sometimes predictable, and others spontaneous; sometimes slow, and others fast. Planners are at the frontline of this...

The fifth event of the two-year period 2022-2024 on the working theme ‘Public Spaces, Urban Cultures, and Constructing Peace’ will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus on 30 and 31 May 2024. It will be an in-presence symposium entitled ‘Constructing Peace through Public Space: What publics? Whose commons?’ The symposium will be organized at the Goethe Institute and Home for Cooperation in the Buffer Zone of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Aim...

The AESOP Thematic Group on Ethics, Values, and Planning invites you to join an online event on Thursday, May 16, 2024, from 4 to 5:30 pm (CET) with Juval Portugali*, editor of the book “The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities” (2023, Edward Elgar). 

The book provides an overview of historical, present, and future perspectives of cities and urbanism associated with the current crisis of democracy. You can find...

Aalto University School of Engineering, Department of Built Environment invites applications for an Assistant Professor in sustainable land-use and transport planning (tenure track)

We are seeking an ambitious and enthusiastic individual for a full-time tenure track position in the Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering (SPT) research group. 

The position and our expectations

The SPT research group connects spatial...

The call for admission to Iuav School of Doctoral Studies, doctorate course Architecture and Arts (2024/2025 a.y.) is open. In the field of planning and urban studies, Iuav doctorate course offers two tracks: Urban and Regional Planning and Policies and Urbanism. 

The deadline for applying is 7 May 2024 at 1 pm CEST.

https://www.iuav.it/INTERNATIO/COURSES/phd-degree/APPLY/2024-2025/call-for-a/index.htm