AESOP newsletter - January 2023

Dear AESOP Members,

To meet the expectations you have expressed in correspondence with us, we are pleased to inform that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the 35th AESOP 2023 Annual Congress Lodz is extended to February 15th!

February 15th is also extended deadline for abstract submission for AESOP 2023 PhD Workshop Poznań as well as for abstract submission for Special Sessions & Roundtables!

We are waiting for your submissions!

Kind regards

AESOP...

AESOP PhD Workshop 2023 Poznań

“From Challenges to Responses: Integrated Planning Approaches in Turbulent Times”

Call for abstracts now open until 15 February 2023!

The 2023 AESOP PhD Workshop, Poznań will address the main topic of the 2023 AESOP Congress “Integrated Planning in a World of Turbulence”, and will concern in particular the review, analysis, and discussion focusing on planning tools necessary to deal...

The 18th AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting 2023 will be hosted by National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic», Ukraine at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava from 22 - 24 March 2023

Participation at the Head of Schools Meeting will be in person and online. On behalf of the LOC and the AESOP Executive Committee we hope to see you in person in Bratislava!

Programme:

Wednesday 22 March

- AESOP Executive Committee...

The call for hosting the 2025 AESOP Congress is now open! All Full and Associate AESOP Member institutions are warmly encouraged to apply.

The extended deadline for the submission of bids is 20 March 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...

AIM OF THE PRIZE

Teaching and capacity development in the field of spatial planning is one of the main activities of AESOP Member Schools. Thus, in 2002, AESOP introduced a prize (https://aesop-planning.eu/activities/awards/excellence-in-teaching-award ) to recognize and encourage Excellence in Teaching.

Through this award, AESOP celebrates and disseminates innovative practices in teaching in its Member Schools. The broad aim of the Prize is to stimulate the...

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...

Following the fruitful cooperation in the past years, ACSP and AESOP are opening a call for joint sessions to take place during Lodz Congress. We invite academics from ACSP and AESOP to submit joint session proposals involving colleagues from both associations. Proposals should include title/theme, a short abstract and a list of speakers and topics.

Deadline: 20 February 2023

Proposals to be sent to: secretariat@aesop-planning.eu

APSA and AESOP are opening a call for joint sessions to take place during the AESOP 2023 Congress in Lodz.

We invite academics from APSA and AESOP to submit joint session proposals involving colleagues from both associations. Proposals should include title/theme, a short abstract and a list of speakers and topics.

Deadline: 20 February 2023

Proposals to be sent to: secretariat@aesop-planning.eu

The deadline is approaching (15 February 2023!)  for the submission of abstracts for the AESOP Annual Congress.

All Colleagues interested in the subject of New Technologies and Planning are cordially invited to submit a contribution to Track 2: Smart and Agile Planning: Smart Cities and Regions. 

More info at https://aesop-planning.eu/resources/news-archive/aesop/call-host-of-aesop-congress-and-phd-workshop-2025-deadline-extended

Call for participation at the Workshop of the AESOP Thematic Group New Technologies and Planning.

The workshop will be held at the University of Aveiro on Monday 6 (am + pm) and Tuesday 7 (am), March 2023.

We would like to invite all Colleagues interested in the Thematic Group New Technologies and Planning activities to attend the meeting.

The attendance is free of charge, but participants will take care of their travel expenses.

The title...

Dr Sina Shahab has been appointed as an AESOP group leader for the Planning and Law theme. Along with Professor Rachelle Alterman (Israel Institute of Technology) and Dr Linda McElduff (Ulster University), he will also serve as a liaison and extended ExCo member of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR).

Dr Shahab is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University (UK) whose research focuses on the ways in which decision-makers can design...

The ‘Conversations in Planning Theory and Practice’ booklet team is actively looking for enthusiastic YA authors to develop a new issue with Prof. Juan Luis de las Rivas Sanz. This booklet project presents conversations with influential planners in theory to reflect on their career paths and discuss how they inspired and addressed the development of planning theory. It aims to provide an introduction to their theories and ideas: what and how they contributed to the field...

We would like to invite all AESOP and AESOP YA Network community to the first installment of the relaunched YA Webinar series titled "How to become and be a good reviewer?" The webinar will take place on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 3pm CET. Please register on the link below and indicate what topics you would like to learn more about.

https://forms.gle/qufLGXfhCb6bWrAy7

The goal of this seminar is to share information and tips...

Deadline to participate in the Steering Committee election is now 14 February 2023

Many thanks to those who have renewed their Habitat UNI membership!

You can join or renew your individual/institutional membership all year round, but only those who do so before 14 February 2023 can participate in the next Steering Committee election.

How do institutional members collaborate under Habitat UNI?

Institutional members are partners of UN-Habitat. 

In...

Dear colleagues

The ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association cooperate with the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Luxembourg and invite applicants for the ARL International Summer School 2023. The topic of the summer school is “A CONTESTED RELATIONSHIP? Urbanisation & the Digital, vs. Digitalisation & the Urban” and will take place from 6 to 8 July 2023 in Luxembourg. We invite advanced doctoral students from all...

Exploring embodied cognition and using biometrics in urban planning

Guest theme editor: Justin B. Hollander, PhD, Tufts University, USA

Planning Practice and Research, Routledge

This special issue of PPR will explore the implications of ‘embodied cognition’, cognitive architecture, biology, and evolution, as well as new research methods and techniques for using biometrics in urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture....

The focus of this special issue is Greece, a member of the European Union located ‘at the corner of Europe’, in a region experiencing geopolitical tensions and the effects of a prolonged economic crisis. Τhe constitution of 1975 established spatial planning as an obligation of the state triggering a process of enacting new legislation over the following decades. However, it was not until after 2000, and under the influence of European Union policies, that planning activity...

TeMA Special Issue (2023) What transition for cities? Scientific debate, research, approaches and good practices

Please click here to find about more about the new book by Andreas Faludi.

Faludi, A., Rocco, R. (Eds.) (2022) Faludi Blogging: Chasing Territorialism, TU Open Publishing, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, ISBN/EAN: 978-94-6366-577-3; DOI: https://doi.org/10.34641/mg.41.

This book includes twelve newly commissioned and carefully curated chapters each of which presents an alternative planning history and theory written from the perspective of groups that have been historically marginalized or neglected.

Aalto University School of Engineering, Department of Built Environment has a vacancy for an assistant professor in spatial planning (tenure track).

The academic field of this tenure track position is spatial planning, with a view on land-use and transportation planning coordination and integration. In particular, the position addresses teaching and research implications of the digitalization of land use and transportation planning processes and practices. Rather than focusing...

Are you interested in working in a top-ranked Planning School, which undertakes ground-breaking research and delivers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes accredited by the RTPI, RICS and CIH?

We are seeking applications from ambitious, highly motivated and talented individuals from across the social sciences who can deliver excellent teaching and research within the broad area of environmental policy, governance and planning. We are particularly interested in applications...

The Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (formerly TU Kaiserslautern) is hiring a Full professor of Regional development and spatial Planning (W 3 Regionalentwicklung und Raumordnung).