We are delighted to announce the winners of the Best Congress Paper Award at the AESOP 2025 Congress in Istanbul!
The award for Best Congress Paper goes to:
🔹 YaZhen Cai, Tzuyuan Stessa Chao
Exploring the Application and Challenges of Urban Planning Legal Systems Guided by Nature-Based Solutions: A Case Study of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
This outstanding contribution was recognised for its theoretical originality, methodological rigour, and relevance to contemporary planning challenges.
Two additional papers received Honourable Mentions for their excellence and contribution to planning scholarship:
🔹 Ozlem Edizel Tasci – Addressing Climate Equity Through Community Engagement on Virginia’s Eastern Shore
🔹 Sidra Khokhar – A Critical Ethnographic of Ziddi Feminist Socio-Spatial Practices in a Modern-Mohalla of Islamabad
These papers reflect the high quality and diversity of research presented at AESOP 2025, and we warmly congratulate the authors for their achievements.
A special thanks to the Zorica Nedovic-Budic chair of the BCPA Committee, the reviewers, and all session chairs for their dedication in evaluating hundreds of submissions and helping us highlight the best of planning research.
AESOP Best Congress Paper Award Committee: Zorica Nedovic-Budic, Chair (University College Dublin, Ireland / University of Illinois, USA), Nadia Caruso (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Tijana Dabovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Jose Antunes Ferreira (Tecnico Lisboa, Portugal), Divya Leducq (Université de Lille, France), Enza Lissandrello (Aalborg University, Denmark), Naja Marot (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Talia Margalith (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Javier Martinez (University of Twente, ITC, The Netherlands), Izabela Mironovwicz (University of Gdańsk, Poland), Sofia Morgado (Faculda de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Elena Pede (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Ana Peric (ETH Zurich, Switzerland / University College Dublin, Ireland), Sina Shahab (Cardiff University, UK), Elisavet Thoidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Brendan Williams (University College Dublin, Ireland)
