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03/02/2010 - AESOP 5th Heads of Schools meeting in Istanbul
Preliminary program
List of hotels
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Registration form
18/01/2010 - The full version of the 2009 UN Habitat Global Report: Planning Sustainable Cities is now downloadable here
A16/01/2010 - AESOP PhD workshop in Turku, Seili Island, Finland, 3-5 July 2010.
Abstract submission is now open, deadline 31 January 2010!
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A01/02/2010 - Thanks to all authors who have submitted their abstracts!  The LOC of AESOP 2010 has received 505 abstracts.by the submission deadline. However, due to many requests, the deadline is extended until 14 February 2010!

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A13/01/2010 - Call for papers, Special Session on "Development and implementation of GIS and other computer applications in Planning".
More information here.
04/01/2010 - AESOP's annual report to GPEAN, by our representative Andrea Frank, available here
AESOP-2010-poster21/12/2009 - Promote AESOP 2010 and be invited for a beer in Helsinki.
This poster is a print-i-y – we hope that you support AESOP 2010 by printing and posting it at appropriate places. On 'proven documentation’, i.e. send us (contact on congress web page) a photo that shows the poster and the surrounding in which it can be seen, we invite you for one beer here in Helsinki, once you arrive!
30/11/2009 - The host of the third World Planning Schools Congress / 25th AESOP Congress will be the University of Western Australia, Perth.
Theme: “Planning’s Future – Futures Planning: Planning in an Era of Global (Un)certainty and Transformation”
Date: early July 2011
Full announcement
21/11/2009 - AESOP has the special pleasure to inform you that our partner journal disP is now covered by ThomsonReuters'  Social Science Citation Index.
30/10/2009 - Nominations for the 2010 UN-HABITAT Cities lecture - deadline 30/11/2009
Institutions or individuals can nominate candidates for the Lecture Series. Individuals may also nominate themselves. The HS-Net Advisory Board, composed of experienced researchers in the Human Settlements field, serves as the selection committee for the Award. Lecture which will take place during the fifth session of the World Urban Forum to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 22-26 March, 2010.
AESOP expresses our gratitutde to Louis Albrechts for providing the information to the community.
More information
UN website
17/09/2009 - Launch of a new Working group on the Monitoring of the European Landscape Convention, chaired by prof. Francesco Domenico Moccia.
Introductory statement
To join or ask further questions, contact Francesco Moccia
ERC research grants
The Research Council of the European Union is offering substantial (up to  3.5 million euros) grants to support research by advanced scholars in  institutions in the EU and associated countries. (There is a separate program  for young investigators). Panel SH3 (Environment and Society) is seeking proposals covering the fields of urban and regional studies, urban and regional  planning, urban sociology and urban geography, GIS, transportation, environment, etc. The Council is looking for innovative, interdisciplinary proposals involving basic research. This year relatively few applications were received by this panel compared to other fields; it is hoped that there will be  more in future years.
15-18 July 2009, Liverpool, UK: "Why can't the future be more like the past?"
Business meetings:
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11 - 14 July 2009: AESOP PhD Workshop at Manchester
27-28 March 2009, Lille, France: AESOP Spring meetings
   
27 March: Council of Representatives
28 March: 4th Heads of Schools meeting
6-11 July 2008, Chicago, USA: AESOP-ACSP Joint congress, "Bridging the Divide: Celebrating the City"

Business meetings:
Call for proposals for hosting the 2011 World Planning Schools Congress :
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June 2008 : Regions n°270, a special issue on "new thinking about regional planning" handled by AESOP Young Academics
A regional survey has been published in june 2008 as major part of the Regions magazine, vol.270. This special issue has been realised as collaboration pilot-project between the Regional Studies Association and the AESOP YA network.
Download here
15-18 June 2008, Stavanger, Norway : AESOP PhD Workshop, "Doing Planning Research"
PhD students share their research ideas, findings, and concerns with each other in an informal atmosphere. Four mentors will act as facilitators to guide the presentations and critical reflection by the students and to encourage discussion on major planning themes and theory.
Further information
AESOP members invited to participate to the International Assessment of the Capacity for Planning by GPN
The United Nation's World Urban Forum in Nanjing (WUF 4) will be preceded by the Global Planners’ Congress in Zhenjiang (China) and address the global issues of urbanisation, poverty and climate change. These two events will provide major opportunities for those of us engaged in planning to have a greater impact on the global agenda. A critical challenge for us is to increase capacity to respond to the challenges of the 21st century to plan sustainable settlements for the world's growing urban population.
The RTPI, with the support of the Commonwealth Association of Planners and Lincoln Institute, is therefore seeking to assess the existing global planning capacity  in terms of legal competences, professional skills, inclusive processes, and civic leadership and vision. AESOP members are warmly invited to complete the web-based self-diagnostic assessment of their personal experience.
Access the survey
TPRAESOP's twentieth birthday in TPR
   
Town Planning Review (TPR) has been the world's leading journal of urban and regional planning since its foundation in 1910 and continues its leading role today. TPR is edited in the Department of Civic Design in the University of Liverpool. To celebrate AESOP's twentieth birthday, Town Planning Review has published a series of viewpoints on AESOP, by David W. Massey, Patsy Healey, Peter Ache.
Download the viewpoints
Go to TPR website
12 April 2008: Call for candidates to host AESOP events
   
AESOP seeks excellent candidates to host its coming events. A declaration of candidature is to be addressed to the Secretary General by May 30th. This short statement shall enlighten the school's motivation for hosting the event, its institutional and organisational capacity to organize it. The final decision will be taken by vote of AESOP's Council in Chicago, July 2008. Candidates are invited to present their candidature at the Council meeting. If you are interested, please establish contact with the indicated contact person for complementary information.

AESOP 2010 congress:
  • Participants: 600
  • Period: July 2010
  • Duration: 5 days
  • Contact: Pantelis Skayannis
  • Deadline for submitting proposals: 30 May 2008
AESOP 2009 Heads of Schools meeting :
  • Participants: 60-80
  • Period: Spring 2009
  • Duration: 2 days
  • Contact: Anna Geppert
  • Deadline for submitting proposals: 30 May 2008
AESOP 2010 Heads of Schools meeting :
  • Participants: 60-80
  • Period: Spring 2010
  • Duration: 2 days
  • Contact: Anna Geppert
  • Deadline for submitting proposals: 30 May 2008
Application guidelines:
28-29 March 2008, Lodz, Poland: AESOP Spring meetings
   
28 March: Council of Representatives
29 March: 3d Heads of Schools meeting
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15 March 2008: Planning Education, a new AESOP series
Planning Education addresses contemporary issues and challenges for learning and training in the field of Planning in Europe. The landscape of higher education is in evolution due to the implementation of the Bologna reform but also to the important changes occurring in planning practice. The journal enlightens these changes and presents AESOP initiatives regarding accreditation and quality assessment of our diplomas and professional recognition of our diplomas. It also provides a forum for ideas and debates about contents, methods and ethics in planning education.
This first issue is based upon the outcomes of the Second meeting of AESOP Heads of Schools which took place in Leuven in April 2007 and was dedicated to the important matter of the European recognition of the Planning profession. It also presents AESOP's core requirements for planning education. Adopted by AESOP in 1995, these common principles and values are shared by our 152 member schools from all Europe.

Download Planning Education 1, "Towards a European recognition for the Planning profession"
6-8 February 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia: 2nd AESOP Young Academics meeting, "Looking Beyond one's Nose: Planning, Policies and Institutions for Integration"   

The AESOP Young Academics Network and the North-West Academy of Public Administration – Faculty of State and Municipal Administration cordially invite proposals for individual papers for the 2nd YA meeting aimed to engage young scholars on planning and development issues.
The 2nd YA Meeting – ‘Looking Beyond One’s Nose: Planning, Policies and Institutions for Integration’ – aims to gather young researchers and students from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. It also wants to discuss and encourage the exchange of ideas and research on evolving perceptions of the ‘border’, not only for what concerns its territorial implications but also its institutional, social and cultural dimensions.
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11-14 July 2007, Naples, Italy: AESOP 21st congress, "Planning for the Risk Society"

Business meetings:
13-14 April 2007, Leuven, Belgium : 2nd Heads of Schools meeting

The meeting gathered 50 Heads of Schools and a meeting of AESOP Past Presidents.
  • Minutes of the Council meeting
  • Report from the Heads of Schools meeting
July 2006, Mexico City, Mexico: 2nd World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC)

At AESOP General Assembly, Professor Louis Albrechts, a founding member of AESOP, was granted Aesop’s third honorary memberhip.
Bratislava


16-18 March 2006, Bratislava, Slovakia: 1st Heads of Schools meeting

AESOP Heads of Schools gather together to discuss matters related to Planning Education. Simin Davoudi presented the report of the survey on the Bologna process she realized for AESOP.

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01/02/2010 - News from HafenCity Universität Hamburg:
21/11/2009 - Alison Brown, Cardiff University, invites you to join the e-Debate on "The Right to the City, Bridging the Urban Divide", to prepare the UN Habitat’s WUF 5 in March 2010, Rio.
23 Nov - 18 Dec 2009 : Dialogue 1: Taking forward the Right to the City
PRIZE- Free trip to WUF5 at Rio for the best contribution from a developing country participant
Contribute
19/11/2009: The London School of Economics & Political Science is pleased to announce that its MSc Regional & Urban Planning Studies has been given accreditation by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Website
28/10/2009: Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) at Newcastle University is pleased to announce the publication of ‘Planning Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human Settlement 2009’ by the United Nation Habitat. Press release
17/09/2009 : RTPI accreditation - MSc in Urban and Regional Planning – CURS (University of Birmingham)
The MSc in Urban and Regional Planning offered by the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) of the University of Birmingham has been awarded full accreditation by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). Urban regeneration had been recognized as our distinctive contribution to spatial planning studies. Our new location within the Business School provides a unique environment in which planning and urban regeneration studies can develop. This echoes the historical legacy in Birmingham of strong links between planning, business and development of the civic realm.
More information: on CURS - on the MSc in Urban and Regional Planning
02/09/2009 : Call for nominations - 2010 IPHS book prizes - Submission deadline 30/11/2009
At the 2010 IPHS conference in Istanbul two prizes will be awarded: The two most innovative books in planning history written in English and based on original new research. Books must have been published in the previous two calendar years (2008-2009). Books may be written individually or joint-authored. Anthologies and edited works are also welcome, but reprints and “readers” are ineligible. The prize for each award is $ 250. The prizes will be awarded at the 14th IPHS conference in Istanbul in July 2010. Winners will be informed in January 2010 to facilitate participation at the conference.
Nominations are invited from scholars and publishers.  Nominations will comprise a 400 word statement, a short CV of the author(s), and 5 copies of the nominated book. These materials will not be returned. Materials should be sent to: Prof. Dr. Dirk Schubert, HafenCity University, 22085 Hamburg, Winterhuder Weg 31, Germany.
Contact: Dirk Schubert, Tel. +49-40-428274513.
31 August 2009: Retirement of Marcel Bazin
Professor at IATEUR, Reims, France, Marcel Bazin has been President of AESOP from 1996 to 1998.
At this special occasion, on behalf of the AESOP community, we would like to express to Marcel Bazin our gratitude.
Message from Marcel Bazin
18 September 2008: Retirement of Willy Schmid
Willy A. Schmid has been a founding member of AESOP. He participated in the legendary first meeting of AESOP at Schloss Cappenberg near Dortmund. Since the formal establishment of AESOP in 1989, and until 2003, he served, with remarkable Swiss accuracy and efficiency, as treasurer of the Association, thus contributing much to secure a solid financial base for this successful European network of higher education.
At this special occasion, on behalf of the AESOP community, we would like to express to Willy A. Schmid our gratitude.
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17 September 2008: Two doctors honoris causa at Blekinge, Sweden
At their meeting on 17 September 2008 the Faculty Board at Blekinge Institute of Technology decided to elect Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala and Professor Andreas Faludi Honorary Doctors. The doctorates will be conferred at the BTH academic celebration on 10 October 2008.
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2007, Prof. Klaus Kunzmann is awarded for his lifetime achievements
7-10 February 2007, Bratislava, Slovakia: 1st AESOP Young Academics Meeting, "Central and Eastern European Engagement"
July 2006, Mexico City, Mexico : at AESOP General Assembly, Professor Louis Albrechts, a founding member of AESOP, was granted Aesop’s third honorary memberhip.
2 June 2006, Oxford: Celebrating the life of Michael Thomas

Michael Thomas was principal lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and his research connections extended all over Europe, as main convenor of a number of Planning Theory Conferences. His death a month ago has prompted his colleague and friends to  celebrate his work and life.
JJ25 April 2006, Jane Jacobs has left us.

With an age 89, Jane Jacobs has been well known by her seminal book  'The Death and Life of Great American Cities' (1961).

Her contributions to the planning field have contributed to generations of planners and her work has left a signature on  our cities and the cities of the future.
July 2004, Grenoble: Prof Patsy Healey, a founding member of AESOP, was granted Aesop’s second honorary memberhip at the 2004 General Assembly.

President's speech:   

"In the Chart of our Association we have a special category of membership: that of Honorary members. We have used this in the past only once. Klaus Kunzmann has been nominated Honorary member in the first years of life of Aesop. Now that Aesop is approaching its adulthood I have been discussing with Exco and Corep about the opportunity to nominate new honorary members with the intention of recognising those scholars who have put a particular effort in the development of Aesop in terms of ideas, organisational activity and representation of the Association in the external world. Corep has accepted this idea and we have decided that one honorary member for each term of presidency should be recognised in order to give a sense of continuity and of constructing a new tradition.
Therefore it is my turn. Having the opportunity of nominating a second Honorary member among the many distinguished scholars who have contributed to the development of Aesop I haven't had many doubts. Among the most distinguished "founding fathers" of Aesop we have had only one "founding mother": Patsy Healey. She has been the one who, with the care of a mother, has probably contributed most to our growth: in the group who has conceived the same idea of Aesop at the beginning of the '80s, being President between 1994 and 1996, launching various working groups, introducing the best paper prize, and providing Aesop always with new ideas and suggestions. Now that still very young she has retired from active academic life she continues to be involved in practice and research in a more essential way showing with all her energy the way to follow for all the scholars of our association.
I, myself, have been asked by Patsy in 1994 to chair the working group on planning research and this has been the beginning of my commitment in Aesop. It is a great honour for me to ask now Patsy Healey to become our Honorary member continuing to be linked to the association she has contributed to create and strengthen.

Sandro Balducci
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