AESOP newsletter - August 2024

Dear AESOP friends, 

As you may be aware, the 2025 Access City Award competition was launched one month ago. Applications must be made by completing and submitting an online application by 10 September 2024 at 23.59 CET the latest. A guidance note for applicants and the participation rules are available in all official EU languages on the Access City Award website.  

This EU award recognises cities that are doing outstanding...

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...

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...

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...

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,

We are pleased to share with you a Call for Papers for a new Sustainability Special Issue entitled «Sustainable Cities: Urban Form, Spatial Structure and Ecological Integration». The special issue is edited by dr. Athanasios Votsis (University of Twente) and explores the thematic direction summarised below:

The mutual interrelationship between sustainability and spatial form and structure has been a central question in...

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...