AESOP newsletter - May 2023

Professor Emeritus Luigi Mazza - 1937 – 2023 - An Appreciation

Luigi Mazza, who sadly passed away on the 3rd of May, was a passionate planning scholar, a shrewd and innovative planning practitioner, and an inspiration to generations of students at the Politecnico di Torino (1972-1990) and the Politecnico di Milano (1990-2023). He made a major contribution to building the academic infrastructure for our field and indirectly influenced planning students and scholars around...

AESOP 2023 Excellence in Teaching Prize

AIM OF THE PRIZE

Teaching in the broad field of planning is one of the main activities of AESOP Member Schools. Thus, in 2002, AESOP introduced a prize, which recognizes and encourages 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 development of planning courses or groups of courses...

AESOP is looking for member schools willing to host the 18th AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting in 2024.

Application Guidelines for hosting AESOP 2024 Heads of Schools Meeting
AESOP member institutions interested in hosting AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting are kindly asked to send their applications before the 19 June, 2023 to the Secretary General (secretariat@aesop-planning.eu).

The Election will take place in the CoRep Meeting,...

World Planning Schools Congress 2026:

Call for Proposals is now open!

The aim of the below is to provide guidelines for those institutional members of GPEAN local and regional associations that are interested in presenting proposals to host and organise the Sixth World Planning Schools Congress 2026. The document comprises the following sections:

1. PURPOSE                                                                                                                           ...

The first event of the two-year period 2023-2024 on the working theme 'Public Spaces, Urban Cultures, and Constructing Peace' was successfully concluded.

This AESOP TG PSUC Workshop Helsinki was attended by participants from Finland, Norway, Germany, Italy, and Palestine, in addition to master’s students from the Urban Studies and Planning (USP) programme at Aalto University. The event included visits to two public libraries in Helsinki with presentations...

BACKGROUND

Human settlement has always evolved around centres. Be it ancient Greek polis or 20th century neighbourhoods – each of them focused various human activities and formed a specific node in the geographical space. Changes in settlement structures were considered to be hierarchical and evolutionary. Those natural concentration mechanisms are undermined by various dispersion processes, having multiscalar and temporal character, and thus weakeningthe well-established...

Theme description

Climate change is a global phenomenon, creating profound challenges that demand global responses grounded in science, politics, economics and the cultural traditions of affected areas. Volume 8 will highlight noteworthy planning responses to climate change identified in the scholarship of planning educators and researchers represented in the eleven-member associations of the Global Planning Education Association Network.

Contributions are...

American University of Sharjah
College of Architecture, Art and Design

Master of Urban Planning Program

Visiting or Regular Faculty Position | Assistant or Associate Professor | Program Academic Coordinator

The College of Architecture, Art and Design (CAAD) at American University of Sharjah (AUS) invites applications for a visiting or regular faculty appointment—at the assistant or associate level—to the Master of Urban Planning (MUP) program....