9-12 February 2009,Small-scale Planning Conference for Young Academics,Vienna University of Technology

3rd AESOP YA Meeting
The discipline of planning should be innately optimistic and forward-looking. Planning processes and practices are fundamentally oriented towards attempting to influence and shape the future by regulating and guiding the present. Planning is continually concerned with anticipating (future) trends and innovations in order to better predict (and shape) what the future might bring.
Yet, paradoxically, planning is also strongly influenced by its past in a variety of ways...