AESOP newsletter - September 2024

PLANNING AS A TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION IN AN AGE OF PLANETARY CRISIS

Istanbul, Yıldız Technical University, 

Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning 

Dear AESOP Community! The Department of City and Regional Planning of the Faculty of Architecture at Yıldız Technical University is happy to invite you to Istanbul on July 7-11, 2025 for the 37th AESOP Annual Congress 2025.

The...

Legitimate and Inclusive Planning Education for Changing and Challenging times​​

University of Liverpool

Planning theorists and educators have long grappled with the issue of what gives planning and planners legitimacy to ‘pronounce’ on the forms and outcomes of development that serve the public interest. The current political and societal climate underscores the enduring relevance of such questions. The rise of populist and anti-truth...

The Urban Transitions Hub of ICS-ULisboa and the  AESOP Thematic Group Global South & East will host AESOP Lecture with Oren Yiftachel (Lloyd Hurst Family Chair of Urban Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) in Lisbon (and online).

Oren will deliver a keynote titled Planning, identity and violent conflict: the spatial making of apartheid in Israel/Palestine.

The Lecture will take place at ICS-ULisboa on October...

During the General Assembly of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), held at the AESOP Annual Congress in Paris at Sciences Po, Professor Simin Davoudi was officially announced as an Honorary Member of the organization. Honorary Memberships are conferred to persons who have made significant contributions to the discipline of planning in Europe.

The appointment was presented by AESOP President, Thomas...

Dear AESOP community,

We are pleased to announce that all videos from the keynote sessions and the General Assembly held during the AESOP Paris Congress are now available on the official congress website.

Whether you attended or couldn’t join, you can now revisit the keynote presentations and key moments from the event. Access the videos to engage with the most important discussions on current and innovative topics in urban and regional planning.

Visit...

Recently, there have been multiple reports of phishing and fraud attempts targeting our members via email.  

They are currently using the identity of the AESOP president. 

Here are some key points to be aware of: 

UN-Habitat’s University Network Initiative (UNI) will have a booth at the Urban Expo at WUF12/Cairo in November. 

They are inviting universities and research institutes, especially those in the Global South, to schedule presentation sessions in the UNI booth.  

If your university or research institute is interested in making such a presentation, please contact Aline Roldan aline.roldan@un.org.

AESOP Thematic Group on Planning Theories (plural)

AESOP Thematic Group on Ethics, Values and Planning

International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights

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

Please register at benjamin.davy@udo.edu

TIME/LESS: Sensing, Designing, Planning — the motto for the events that take place over the course of 2024! On the one hand, this title stresses the implications of (not) thinking about time both from theoretical and empirical perspectives, through the lens of sensing, designing, and planning. On the other hand, it reflects on and questions the timeless character of the conventions, practices, and patterns that are (not yet) affected by the passage of time.

We...

Register now for our hybrid event "Inclusive and Cohesive Urban Development in European Cities: European Reflections and Learnings for a Post-War Urban Planning" on October 18th: https://bit.ly/3XzjEad
See below for details and programme. We would be extremely happy to welcome you in Bratislava or online!

Organised by Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, SPECTRE Centre of Excellence, AESOP& Thematic Group "Transboundary Planning and Governance"

Dears colleagues,

An online Conference on Challenges in Spatial Planning for Societal Transitions, organised by IST - Instituto Superior Técnico, POliTO -Politecnico di Torino and KTH- Royal Institute of Technology, with the support of GPEAN - Global Planning Education Association Network, will take place online on the 9th October, 11-13.30 CET. 

The Conference aims at collecting insights on how spatial planning education needs to be (re)shaped to promote...

The Department of Community and Regional Planning (CRP) in the College of Design at Iowa State University is seeking an accomplished administrator with demonstrated achievements in planning for the role of Department Chair to support and promote the interdisciplinary and collaborative work of all departmental faculty and staff.

As a Carnegie Foundation- designated Research-Extensive institution, we seek an individual in the field who will support the department's long-standing...

The Department of Real Estate and Planning, Henley Business School is looking to appoint two lecturers.

The first position is for a lecturer in ‘Housing Markets and Policy’.  Areas of interest include: housing economics, housing finance and mortgage markets, the evolution of the ‘living’ capital markets, national and international policy developments and the role of land use planning in shaping housing market outcomes.  An interest in the impact of global...

The Department of Sustainability and Planning, at Aalborg University has an opening for an Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Planning  for appointment from 01.01.2025 or soon hereafter. Deadline for applications is the 16.09.2024. More information about the position can be found here: https://www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/vis-stilling/vacancyId/1219198 

Contact Kristian Olesen, kristian@plan.aau.dk for further information

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...