AESOP newsletter - November 2022

Dear AESOP Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the AESOP Head of Schools (HoS) Meeting 2023 will take place on 24 March 2023. The Executive Committee (ExCo) meeting will take place on 22 March and the Council of Representatives Meeting on 23 March.

Over the recent months AESOP ExCo has worked closely with the Local Organising Committee of the HoS host the National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”, Ukraine. The CoRep which met on 25 July, 2022...

Call for the position of AESOP President is now open!

According to Article 23 lit. c of the AESOP Charter the mandatory period of the President is two years. The election takes place one year before the beginning of the mandatory period. During this year, the elected President occupies the position of the Vice President. Having completed the mandatory period, the President moves to the position of the Vice President for a period of one year.
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The call for hosting the 2025 AESOP Congress is now open! All Full and Associate AESOP Member institutions are warmly encouraged to apply.

The deadline for the submission of the bids is 1 February 2023. 

The decision will be made by the Council of Representatives at the meeting which will take place during the AESOP 2023 Head of Schools meeting on 23 March, 2023. 

The candidates must prepare a 10-minute presentation of...

AESOP is looking for candidates for the Chair of the AESOP Best Published Paper Award Committee (2023 – 2028).

The Chair of the Best Published Paper Award Committee is responsible for organizing the work of the committee, managing contacts with journal editors, coordinating the evaluation of nominated articles, drafting material for the Best Published Paper Award website and presenting the results of the evaluation during the AESOP Annual Congress. According to...

AESOP is looking for candidates for the Chair of the AESOP Excellence in Education Board (2023 – 2026)

The Chair will be responsible for the overall coordination of the Board, for managing the Quality Recognition Program and in particular to guarantee the quality and transparency of the assessment processes for awarding the AESOP CERTIFICATE OF QUALITY.

According to the AESOP Charter (Art. 16e) the Chair of the AESOP Excellence in Education Board is...

AESOP is looking for candidates willing to organize the 19th AESOP Lecture Series in 2023. 

The application has to be from an Academic on behalf of an AESOP member institution.

The Lecture Series was initiated in 2012 as part of the AESOP’s Silver Jubilee Year celebrations. Since then, a series of Lectures have been regularly organized with prominent ‘urban thinkers’, both academics and practitioners. The idea has been to attract not only the local...

Quality Recognition (QR) is a programme for continual quality support based on voluntary grounds, peer support and sharing of best practices for the improvement of teaching and pedagogy to safeguard the quality of planning education reflecting the changing requirements on AESOP member schools.

The call for QR applications 2022-23 is open until 15 December!

For more details on how to apply please visit the website via this link: https://aesop-planning.eu/activities/quality-recognition/how-to-apply

Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning is AESOP's international peer-reviewed open-access journal. It aims at promoting excellence and pluralism in planning education and research and supports and disseminates scholarly work of the highest quality covering the whole spectrum of the planning discipline. In keeping with these values, the journal follows a completely open access model with no article processing charges and it is listed in the...

After the open call for “new coordinators” (deadline September 25), the Thematic Group (TG) on Ethics, Values and Planning is happy to officially kick off a new phase by announcing the new coordination team!

As usual, we will try to do our best to facilitate lively debates on crucial ethical planning issues. We will do that through the organisation of events and by providing an open space for members to initiate debates.

Please, see the TG's page...

20-22 April 2023, Manchester (UK) - The 21st meeting
Complex [Cognitive] Cities: Sensing, planning and design in urban transformations

Extended Abstract Submission until 23 Jan 2023

 Planning and complexity engages with the plurality of the urban as a complex relational web of systems, processes and flows. The research field is an emergent combination of multiple and transdisciplinary perspectives attempting to analyse, understand, influence and design...

The International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) will hold its 17th annual conference May 2-5, 2023 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The event will be hosted by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. 

​Annual PLPR conferences provide an opportunity to present scholarship covering a broad array of topics residing at the intersection of planning, law, and/or property...

AESOP would like to congratulate our colleagues at the Department of Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geography at the University of Belgrade, Serbia who recently celebrated their 45th anniversary! 

We are happy to announce the “International Urbanism - Production and Transfer of Knowledge” urban dialogue series, organized jointly by the Department of International Urbanism, University of Stuttgart and the School of Architecture and Design, Beijing Jiaotong University.

The event aims at stimulating dialogues between scholars from China and Germany on the theme “International Urbanism" and more than 20 urban experts...

Call for Papers for the Special Issue: Street experiments to transform urban mobility and public space 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-urban-mobility/about/call-for-papers#call-for-paper-for-the-special-issue-street-experiments-to-transform-urban-mobility-and-public-space 

While the fast pace of these changes is promising for building cities less dependent on automobiles and with more diverse and inclusive public spaces, one key question...

Cities and Metropolises in France and Germany

Carlos Nunes Silva (ed.) (2022). Local Governance in Cape Verde, 1970 - 2020. Cham: Springer.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-05847-9

The book provides a pioneering overview of the evolution of the local government and urban policy in Cape Verde after independence, offering a multi-scale perspective of local governance in Cape Verde from 1970 - 2020. ​ It examines the process of urban development in the country, and in the capital city in particular,...

Edited by Karina Pallagst, Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot, Marco Bontje and René Fleschurz (2022)---Compelling and engaging, this Handbook on Shrinking Cities addresses the fundamentals of shrinkage, exploring its causal factors, the ways in which planning strategies and policies are steered, and innovative solutions for revitalising shrinking cities. Chapters cover topics of governance, ‘greening’ and ‘right-sizing’, and regrowth, laying the relevant groundwork for...

A call is now open for applications for three PhD scholarships in the programme of Urban Planning, Design and Policy at Politecnico di Milano. The scholarships are part of the 211 PhD scholarships funded at Politecnico with investments provided by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) for research related to the 38th cycle, starting in February 2023. All positions are based on predefined research topics as follows: