AESOP newsletter - July 2024

Dear AESOP friends, 

With this news, we would like to thank you all for participating in the largest congress in the history of AESOP!!!

The Congress, centred around the theme "GAME CHANGER? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions" was held in Paris, at SciencePo, from July 8 to July 12, 2024.

Around 1200 participants from over 55 different countries!
Between tracks, special sessions and roundtables, there...

Dear AESOP friends, 

this is the time to thank all the PhD students, mentors and all the Local Organiser Committee of the AESOP 2024 PhD Workshop held at lnstitut d'Urbanisme et de Géographie Alpine, Grenoble, July 3-6 2024.

35 PhD participants from all over the world (Australia, USA, Europe, China..)  

2024 AESOP Excellence in Teaching Prize

AIM OF THE PRIZE

Teaching in the broad field of planning is one of the main activities of AESOP Member Schools. Thus, in 2002, AESOP introduced a prize, which recognizes and encourages 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 stimulate the development of planning courses or groups...

Dear AESOP friends, 

We are happy to announce the call for a new Editor in Chief of our Young Academics booklet series Conversations in Planning. The YA Coordination Team is seeking to appoint a new EiC starting August 1st, 2024 for a duration of 2 years.

Conversations in Planning is a booklet series managed by the Young Academic Network. Its open access e-publications are outcomes of collaborative efforts between young academics and more established scholars. The booklet series thus...

EPOS scholarships by DAAD for the 2024 MSc Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design (IUSD) programme are open for application now! This interdisciplinary double-degree links perspectives from the South and North by studying the first year at University of Stuttgart, Germany, and the second year at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. Students learn critical engagement with theories and practices related to dynamically transforming cities,...

10 October 2024, 4—6 p.m. CET (online)

Please register at benjamin.davy@udo.edu

This event is organised in collaboration with the AESOP TG on Planning Theories.

JACOBS on KROPOTKIN - Mutual aid, local planning, and law. At the turn of the 20th century PatrickGeddes, Ebenezer Howard, Lewis Mumford were all strongly influenced by Peter Kropotkin. 21st century global environmental and economic conditions again...

Dear all,

We are delighted to share the news that AESOP ExCo and CoRep have approved our thematic group proposal to organise AESOP International PhD Workshop in India as a mainstream AESOP event in 2026/27. In the future, we plan to organise similar workshops aligned with the years of Global Planning Congresses in the Global South and East countries.

With regards and thanks

Global South and East thematic group

The thematic group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures was responsible for TRACK 08: PUBLIC SPACE Planning for cultural diversity, peace and the experience of places.

This track had a total of nine sessions with the following topics:

The track hosted a total of 51 presentations. The sessions were well attended, and...

We are pleased to inform you that at the AESOP conference in Paris, 8-12 July 2024, the  TG PSUC coordination transitioned from the 2022-2024 team, comprised of Christine Mady (main coordinator, Aalto University, Finland), Tihomir Viderman (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany), and Matej Nikšič (Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia) to the 2024-2026 team, which will include Tihomir Viderman (main coordinator, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany),...

European Reflections and Learnings for a Post-War Urban Planning

Roundtable details

The roundtable discussion, to be held in the context of the PM4U project, will delve into the intricacies of inclusive urban development in EU, Ukraine and other European post-war countries. The rationale behind the PM4U project is grounded in the urgent need for projects of urban transformation address a spectrum...

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...

Aalto University invites applications for an Associate or full professor level in Urban Planning. For more information and the application form please visit:

https://www.aalto.fi/en/open-positions/professor-in-urban-planning

The call is open until 2 September, 2024 (UTC +3h). We would appreciate it very much if you could spread the info of this open call to all likely...

The Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University is offering the following position (starting at the earliest possible date):

Professorship (W3) Transport Planning

Our profile

TU Dortmund University comprises 17 departments in the natural and engineering sciences as well as the humanities and social sciences and is a dynamic university with a strong profile in research, teaching, promotion of young scientists and transfer. With around 1,300...

Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, City and Regional Planning Department is looking for an international Assistant Professor candidate (Non-Turkish citizen) to employ in research and teaching activities.

Candidates must have

1)  PhD in Urbanism, City Planning, Regional Planning 

2)  Strong record of international publications

Please send your CV to enginduran@iyte.edu.tr (Prof.Dr. H. Engin Duran, Department Chair) for an initial screening.

Call for Applications for 2025: Sustainable Innovations in Housing

Housing constitutes a foundational pillar of societies and their economies. It is an essentially spatial phenomenon with diverse implications regarding human needs and the environment. Its construction, development, provision, and accessibility vary widely across regions and globally—and so do its life cycles, ecological impacts, and resilience to environmental risks.

Current sustainability...

Dear colleagues, fellow researchers, and friends of Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge,

we are pleased to share with you the current Call for Contributions for the upcoming issue »Changing Spatial Practices: Alliances, Activism and Networks« of Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge, edited by Kadambari Baxi (Barnard College, Columbia University, New York), Isabel Glogar (Technical University...

In recent years, urban experimentation has firmly entered the vocabulary of urban transformation research through an extensive body of literature on transition management, environmental policy and governance, human geography and planning, sustainability, and real-world lab research. Urban experimentation broadly refers to "an approach associated with a set of practices that characterizes contemporary urban innovation and the profusion of...

**CALL FOR PAPERS **

The 'International Journal of E-Planning Research' (ISSN: 2160-9918) ranked Q1 in Urban Studies in 2023.

It is in percentile 88th in the category 'Urban Studies' (position 33th/279 in the SCOPUS ranking in 'Urban Studies'; and percentile 85th in the category 'Geography, Planning and Development' (position 115th/821 in the SCOPUS ranking in 'Geography, Planning and Development').

The IJEPR is currently seeking the submission of new...

The new publication, “Mapping of 15-minute City Practices,” offers a comprehensive overview of the 15-minute City concept and related policy fields. By collecting case studies and examples from 100 cities, the report provides insights into international practical definitions, strategies, and experiences of implementation.

The 15-minute City concept presents an ambitious vision for increasing opportunities, connections, and the quality of life in cities. Although...

The volume SPATIAL PLANNING SYSTEMS IN EUROPE . COMPARISON AND TRAJECTORIES has just been published by Edward Elgar!

https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/spatial-planning-systems-in-europe-9781839106248.html

The Book summarises the results of the ESPON COMPASS project, the most up-to-date, systematic overview of spatial governance and planning in the European continent.

 Spatial_Planning_Systems_in_Europe.pdf

Below are some short reviews by prominent scholars:

‘Incisive,...