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- Category: Ethics, Values and Planning
Dear all,
after two lively and highly stimulating sessions on “neoliberalism” and “kindness in planning”, the AESOP TG on Ethics, Values and Planning **is glad to inform you that the third colloquium is scheduled on Wednesday, **April 21st, from 5 to 6 pm (CET).
The discussion/conversation will start from a recently published essay in Planning Theory titled “Revisiting the concept of the ‘just city’. Three crucial issues: Institutional justice and spatial justice, social justice and distributive justice, concept of justice and conceptions of justice” written by Stefano Moroni. As usual, this is not going to be a one-man show but an open vibrant discussion open to all participants.
You are very welcome to participate. Please consider the following:
• Prepare yourself by reading the text in advance
• Register to the event by sending an e-mail to
• Participants are invited to send in a question, idea, or comment to be raised during the colloquium via e-mail by 19 April at the latest
To secure a colloquium in which there is sufficient space for active participation, we limit the number of participants. So please register in time.
Arend Jonkman & Stefano Cozzolino
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- Category: Planning, Law and Property rights
During February 2021 over 300 academics from across the world exchanged ideas on planning, law, and property rights in eleven online sessions, and 12 doctoral researchers took part in a corresponding doctoral workshop. The online session series was organized by the International Academic Organization on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR).
PLPR emerged in 2008 from the Thematic Group of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and has developed into an independent global association with the aim of promoting scientific discussion on planning, law and property rights. The PLPR usually organizes its annual meeting in February (see www.plpr-association.org). Instead, this year a series of online sessions on various key topics was held.
Sessions
The thematic sessions addressed eight relevant topics of planning, law, and property rights, such as the provision of affordable housing, climate change, land policy, informal spatial development, dealing with agricultural land, land value depreciation, national spatial planning, and blockchain technologies.
Although each session was planned for 90 minutes with 4-6 speakers and a subsequent discussion, often a large group of participants stayed in the online meeting for up to an hour afterto continue the discussions. During the session on the extraction of added value, the question of the legitimation of such a strategy was at the core of the discussion - stimulated by experiences from Europe and South America.
Almost all sessions attracted more than 50 academics from all continents. The session on informal planning, with more than 90 participants, attracted the most attention, with a division into informal planning in the global South and informal planning in developed countries fuelled an intensive discussion on the perception and handling of informality.
The sessions were organised in a way that enabled active participation from across the global community. Sessions took place not only at 2pm but also in the evening from 9pm or in the morning at 7am (CET). As a result, contributions from Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa, as well as South and North America could be brought together. In particular, it was possible to involve academics in a discourse who normally find it difficult to take part in international conferences due to budgetary restrictions. The very active integration of the chat function in the sessions also encouraged colleagues who were less confident in the English language to take part. This fuelled the debate and made the event very inclusive.
PhD Workshop
A highlight was the PhD workshop organized by Sofija Nikolić Popadić (University of Belgrade), the PhD coordinator of PLPR. Twelve PhD researchers discussed their research questions and design as well as their publication strategy with Linda McElduff (Ulster University) and Thomas Hartmann (Wageningen University), who acted as mentors. The doctoral students were grateful for the intensive exchange that they missed in the wake of the pandemic.
Ghent 2022
At the end of the event, the traditional flag ceremony took place, in which the PLPR flag was handed over to the next organizer of the conference - Hans Leinfelder from KU Leuven. The next PLPR conference will take place from 7th to 11th February 2022 in Ghent, Belgium (see www.plpr-association.org for more details in due course).
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- Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
Call for abstracts
What’s going on in public spaces and urban cultures?
Updates on current research, policy and practice
AESOP Thematic Group Public Space and Urban Culture’s Special Session #44 at the Regions in Recovery. Building Sustainable Futures - Global E-Festival, 2-18 June 2021
Session Organisers
Christine Mady | Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon,
Stefania Ragozino | National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development, Naples, Italy,
Tihomir Viderman | Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg, Germany,
Description
Regions and cities appear to have been shaped through responses to a series of challenges and crises, including health or climate hazards, interruptions in economic growth, political upheavals or social transformations. Urban scholars and policy-makers frequently observe and engage with public spaces as arenas which embody both the challenges and responses. The challenges have been articulated in themes such as accessibility, healthy living, democracy, justice, social movements. Against a seemingly bleak outlook, public spaces and urban cultures also nurture optimistic responses. ‘The New Urban Agenda’, adopted by the UN-Habitat Conference, Habitat III, promotes public space as a key ingredient of ‘inclusive, connected, safe and accessible’ cities (UN Habitat, 2016).
This special session on “What’s going on in public spaces and urban cultures? Updates on current research, policy and practice” asks how public spaces can inform research, policy and practice towards creating ‘inclusive, connected, safe and accessible’ cities.
Contributions are invited, but are not limited to address one of the following topics:
- Changing typologies and roles of players and actors: multiplicity of publics and public space cultures, arenas for rebuilding participation
- Public spaces and changes: climate change, social movements, circular economy;
- Changing needs and roles: homelessness, refugees, immigrants and integration, age, gender, social, cultural, ethnic and religious considerations and urban justice;
- Questioning the global north-south divide and public space dynamics;
- Changing role of public spaces in political conflict zones;
- Changing environmental awareness: public space as a buffer zone, contribution to public health (mental and physical well-being);
- Changing intangible cultural heritage: adapting the genius loci to multiple and dynamic cultural identities;
- The impact of technological innovation on public space research and practice.
This session is organized by the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, which gathers an international and interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners, who contribute a plurality of perspectives. The group was established in 2010 under the umbrella of the Association of European Schools of Planning Education (AESOP). Since then, it promotes a dialogue between practitioners, academics, governmental and non-governmental professionals, and further interest groups through virtual and physical meetings, workshops, conferences and roundtables.
Deadline abstract submission 31 March 2021
Click here to submit https://members.regionalstudies.org/lounge/Meetings/Meeting?ID=307
*AESOP ExCo will cover the speaker fees (up to a maximum of 5 speakers)*
Links
Regions in Recovery Building Sustainable Futures - Global E-Festival
https://www.regionalstudies.org/events/rinr2021/
2021 Regions in Recovery Special Sessions
https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/202-ssrinr/
AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
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- Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS
- Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
Call for abstracts
What’s going on in public spaces and urban cultures?
Updates on current research, policy and practice
AESOP Thematic Group Public Space and Urban Culture’s Special Session #44 at the Regions in Recovery. Building Sustainable Futures - Global E-Festival, 2-18 June 2021
Session Organisers
Christine Mady | Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon,
Stefania Ragozino | National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development, Naples, Italy,
Tihomir Viderman | Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg, Germany,
Description
Regions and cities appear to have been shaped through responses to a series of challenges and crises, including health or climate hazards, interruptions in economic growth, political upheavals or social transformations. Urban scholars and policy-makers frequently observe and engage with public spaces as arenas which embody both the challenges and responses. The challenges have been articulated in themes such as accessibility, healthy living, democracy, justice, social movements. Against a seemingly bleak outlook, public spaces and urban cultures also nurture optimistic responses. ‘The New Urban Agenda’, adopted by the UN-Habitat Conference, Habitat III, promotes public space as a key ingredient of ‘inclusive, connected, safe and accessible’ cities (UN Habitat, 2016).
This special session on “What’s going on in public spaces and urban cultures? Updates on current research, policy and practice” asks how public spaces can inform research, policy and practice towards creating ‘inclusive, connected, safe and accessible’ cities.
Contributions are invited, but are not limited to address one of the following topics:
- Changing typologies and roles of players and actors: multiplicity of publics and public space cultures, arenas for rebuilding participation
- Public spaces and changes: climate change, social movements, circular economy;
- Changing needs and roles: homelessness, refugees, immigrants and integration, age, gender, social, cultural, ethnic and religious considerations and urban justice;
- Questioning the global north-south divide and public space dynamics;
- Changing role of public spaces in political conflict zones;
- Changing environmental awareness: public space as a buffer zone, contribution to public health (mental and physical well-being);
- Changing intangible cultural heritage: adapting the genius loci to multiple and dynamic cultural identities;
- The impact of technological innovation on public space research and practice.
This session is organized by the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, which gathers an international and interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners, who contribute a plurality of perspectives. The group was established in 2010 under the umbrella of the Association of European Schools of Planning Education (AESOP). Since then, it promotes a dialogue between practitioners, academics, governmental and non-governmental professionals, and further interest groups through virtual and physical meetings, workshops, conferences and roundtables.
Deadline abstract submission 31 March 2021
Click here to submit https://members.regionalstudies.org/lounge/Meetings/Meeting?ID=307
*AESOP ExCo will cover the speaker fees (up to a maximum of 5 speakers)*
Links
Regions in Recovery Building Sustainable Futures - Global E-Festival
https://www.regionalstudies.org/events/rinr2021/
2021 Regions in Recovery Special Sessions
https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/202-ssrinr/
AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
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- Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS
- Category: Ethics, Values and Planning
The AESOP thematic group on ETHICS, VALUES AND PLANNING has been recently renovated.
After several years of excellent work and passionate discussions, we would like to thank Claudia Basta and all the other members for their active contribution. From now on, we (Stefano Cozzolino and Arend Jonkman) have the pleasure and the responsibility to trigger fruitful interactions within our community which, we hope, can be joined by many new members.
- TG PSUC's Annual Report 2020
- AESOP TG ETHICS, VALUES & PLANNING - First event: "If neoliberalism is everything, maybe it is nothing" with prof. Edwin Buitelaar - Wednesday, February 24th, 5-6 pm (CET)
- Special issue: The Design of the Public Realm: Emerging Theories and Practices_Deadline:March 26 2021
- Special issue: The Design of the Public Realm: Emerging Theories and Practices_Deadline:March 26 2021
