ETHICS, VALUES AND PLANNING

This Thematic Group (TG) aims to facilitate lively debates on crucial ethical urban planning issues. It organizes events (e.g. colloquiums and conferences) and provides an open space for members to initiate debates.

The TG addresses mainly four themes:
• The correlation between ethics and spatial configurations (e.g. distributive issues, access to resources, freedom)
• The role and meaning of "spatial/urban justice";
• How to appropriately include values in urban governance, design and planning;
• Different types of ethical approaches in planning and their concrete operationalization.

Important aspects:
• The TG acknowledges and welcomes different ethical perspectives and different ideas of justice;
• The TG aims at overcoming dogmas, especially ideologically blinded and biased conversations.

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SPECIAL ISSUE PUBLICATION: "Exploring conformorality in planning debates"
Saturday, November 16, 2024
The AESOP Thematic Group Ethics, Values and Planning is delighted to announce the publication of a themed issue: "...
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AESOP TG on ETHICS, VALUES & PLANNING - COLLOQUIUM 9: "Radically Alternative Views on Spatial Planning and the Law: Kropotkin, Hayek, Kelsen", October 10, 4-6 PM (CET)
Monday, July 29, 2024
10 October 2024, 4—6 p.m. CET (online) Please register at benjamin.davy@udo.edu This event is organised in...
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AESOP TG on ETHICS, VALUES & PLANNING - COLLOQUIUM 8: "The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities", May 16, 4-5.30 PM (CET) with Juval Portugali
Monday, April 08, 2024
The AESOP Thematic Group on Ethics, Values, and Planning invites you to join an online event on Thursday, May 16,...
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Events and Updates from the AESOP TG on Ethics, Values, and Planning
Tuesday, January 02, 2024
Dear friends and members of the AESOP Thematic Group on Ethics, Values and Planning , we want to inform and involve...
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Call for papers: Exploring Conformorality in Planning Debates: Perspectives and Implications
Tuesday, January 02, 2024
The AESOP TG Ethics, Values and Planning welcomes contributions to a themed special issue of Transactions of AESOP on...
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POST-CONFERENCE REPORT - "BREAKING THROUGH CONFORMORALITY" (September 14-15, 2023)
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
In this two-day event, which took place at the ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development (Dortmund,...
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Two-Day Programme for the Conference on "Breaking through 'Conformorality' in Urban and Regional Studies" AESOP - September 14-15 at ILS
Tuesday, September 05, 2023
Breaking through ‘conformorality’ in urban and regional studies September 14-15, 2023 - ILS (Dortmund, Brüderweg...
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Annual conference of TG on Ethics, Values & Planning: "Breaking through ‘conformorality’ in urban and regional studies" (14 & 15 September 2023, Dortmund)
Friday, March 03, 2023
Annual conference of TG on Ethics, Values & Planning Breaking through ‘conformorality’ in urban and regional studies...
Ethics, Values and Planning
Annual conference of TG on Ethics, Values & Planning: "Breaking through ‘conformorality’ in urban and regional studies" (14 & 15 September 2023, Dortmund)
Friday, March 03, 2023
Annual conference of TG on Ethics, Values & Planning Breaking through ‘conformorality’ in urban and regional studies...
Ethics, Values and Planning
AESOP TG ETHICS, VALUES & PLANNING - COLLOQUIUM 7: "JUST URBAN DESIGN: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE PUBLIC CITY", MARCH 28, 5-6 PM (CET)
Monday, February 20, 2023
Curious to explore and discuss the interrelation between urban design and justice ? The AESOP TG on Ethics, Values and...
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CALL FOR NEW COORDINATORS - Thematic Group on Ethics, Values and Planning (Deadline: September 25, 2022)
Thursday, August 04, 2022
The AESOP thematic group on Ethics, Values and Planning is searching for candidates who would like to contribute to...
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Extended deadline - Call for papers - Annual conference TG Ethics, Values and Planning - Operationalizing the Just City
Thursday, November 11, 2021
EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE UNTIL 26 NOV Call for abstracts Operationalizing the Just City Annual conference...

Typology of events and activities

Colloquiums 

One invited speaker and two/three selected discussants. The meetings are open to the public but subject to registration. In these events, an already published article will be presented and discussed. The necessary condition to participate in the event is to read the article in advance. 

Open space 

The TG’s OPEN SPACE is an opportunity provided to all members who want to present and discuss new works or topics (e.g. new books and articles). Initiators must submit their proposals in advance to the coordinators, who will evaluate them. This type of event can be organised and proposed at any time.

Annual Conference 

The annual conference will investigate one prevalent topic in depth. A possible objective of the event is to publish a special thematic issue based on the selected submitted abstracts. 

 

Past activities and events

publications

Colloquiums

  • "Radically Alternative Views on Spatial Planning and the LAw: Kropotkin,  Hayek, Kelsen" with Jacobs, Moroni and Davy (in collaboration with the Thematic Group on Theories), (October 10, 2024)
  • "The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities” with Juval Portugali (May 16, 2024)
  • "Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City” with Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Vinit Mukhija (March 28, 2023)
  • "If neoliberalism is everything, maybe it is nothing" with Edwin Buitelaar (February 24, 2021)
  • "Our curious silence about kindness"  with John Forester (March 24, 2021)
  • "Revisiting the concept of the just city" with Stefano Moroni (April 21, 2021)
  • "Back to normality or perpetual threat? Exploring scenarios of future urban life and planning" (May 26, 2021)
  • "Overcoming the false dichotomy between procedural and distributive justice" with Ali Madanipour, Sabine Weck and Peter Schmitt (October 13, 2021)
  • "Human Dignity in Planning" with Ben Davy (November 23, 2021)

Open space events

  • "What are AESOP's shared values?", Initiator: Ben Davy (June 8, 2021)

Annual Conference

  • "Breaking through ‘conformorality’ in urban and regional studies", Dortmund (September 14-15, 2023)
  • “Operationalising the Just City”, Online (February 24-25, 2022)

Annual congress

  • Roundtable EUROPEAN VALUES AND SPATIAL PLANNING (organised in collaboration with the Thematic Group on Theories), AESOP Congress, Paris, France - Track 9: Inclusion (July 8-12, 2024) 
  • "Planning for Fair, Plural, and Welcoming Cities", AESOP Congress, Paris, France - Track 9: Inclusion (July 8-12, 2024)
  • "Planning for inclusive, pluralistic and just cities", AESOP Congress, Lodz, Poland - Track 9: Inclusivity (July 11-15, 2023)
  • “Making and unmaking spatial inequalities”, AESOP Congress Tartu, Estonia – Track 9: Spatialities (July 25-29, 2022)