Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning

Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal, produced and owned by AESOP, Association of European Schools of Planning. The journal aims at promoting excellence in planning education and research, a key goal for AESOP. It supports and disseminates scholarly work of the highest quality, covering the whole spectrum of the planning discipline, particularly those produced by AESOP members or participants of AESOP events and activities. Transactions is led by a working group of four.

/Ela%20Babalık-Sutcliffe
Working Group Member
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
/Andrea%20Frank
Working Group Member
University of Birmingham, UK
/Nikos%20Karadimitriou
Working Group Member
University College London, UK
/Olivier%20Sykes
Working Group Member
University of Liverpool, UK

LATEST ARTICLES

  • Editorial

    The causes and impacts of new and enduring regional inequalities have been much debated in many regions and countries around the globe over the past decade. This has been reflected in public and political discourse with references to and imaginaries of so-called ‘forgotten’ or ‘left behind’

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  • 'Levelling Up' Post-Industrial City-Regions in England

    The UK government’s ‘Levelling Up’ agenda represents the latest attempt to address long-standing inter-regional socio-economic disparities in England. This paper assesses how the Levelling Up The UK White Paper, published in early 2022, frames the problem of interregional inequality and the

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  • Developing Companionship with the Left-Behinds

    The subject of regional inequality has been garnering the attention of scholars over the past decade and has generated debates on territories forgotten by mainstream economic activities. Left-behind places are a global phenomenon yet with various situated conditions in different development

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  • Forgotten territories in Europe : lessons from Italy, Spain, and Poland.

    This paper presents the results of a comparative research on place-based policies towards “left-behind territories” in Europe. It shows the variety of trajectories of putting the territorial question on the agenda and of defining the 'forgotten' territories in Italy, Spain and Poland. This

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  • Forgotten Italy

    The forgotten Italian territories have almost always been understood as compact physical and conceptual spaces. While changing its terms, borders, and issues from time to time, the forgotten regions have been described through a homogeneous image: Mezzogiorno, peripheriesand Inner

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  • How can challenges in left behind places be addressed? Learning from Greater Lille, Nantes, the Ruhr region, San Antonio and Estonia.

    Addressing issues of regional inequalities and supporting ‘left behind’ regions is a global issue, but analysis of international regions that have successfully levelled up is limited. Developing and implementing effective place-based policies is critical for recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic

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