AESOP Prizes		  

AESOP currently assignes three Prizes:

 
Download here a list of Journals that Publish the AESOP Prize.
 
 
Excellence in Teaching  (Back to top)
 


EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING

 

Teaching in the broad field of planning is one of the main activities of our member schools. To highlight this AESOP 2002 introduced a new prize in order to recognise and encourage Excellence in Teaching for Practice. Through this award, AESOP would like to celebrate and disseminate the good practice in teaching to be found in our member schools. The aim of the award is to stimulate the development of planning courses or groups of courses in order to better prepare students for their forthcoming practice and research, and also to further educate practitioners.

The 2008 prize for excellence in teaching asks for planning courses that have clearly and consciously integrated elements linking the spatial dimensions of planning with matters of social equity and diversity in a way which seeks to promote social inclusion and cohesion amongst diverse groups.

The 2008 prize is looking for courses which explicitly raise these ethical issues alongside – or as part of – developing students’ technical skills in designing socio-spatial interventions, with the aim of healing social divisions and conflict. All aspects of diversity can be considered. We now ask for planning courses where these socio-spatial elements are integrated, with particular emphasis on the ethical dimension of the planning discipline which we would like to be taught within planning courses.

Download announcement for the 2008 Excellence in teaching prize


For more information you can e-mail Francesco LoPiccolo (chair of jury)

 

 


*** EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING 2007 ***

 

The AESOP prize for Excellence in Teaching 2007 has been rewarded to:

The Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning
IUAV, University of Venice, Italy

The 2007 years prize of excellence in teaching prize was given to the postgraduate module:

"A participative process of Urban Regeneration. Building an integrated programme aimed at improving the quality of urban and social life in a consolidated periphery of Venice"

Jury report

 

Prize committees

  • Francesco Lo Piccolo (chair)
Department "Città e Territorio", Università degli studi di Palermo, Italy
  • Judith Allen
School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, UK
  • Roar Amdam
Institute of Municipal Studies, Volda University College, Norway
  • Giancarlo Cotella (Young Academics' member)
Department "Interateneo Territorio", Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • Kristina Nilsson
Department of Landscape Planning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
  • Lia Vasconcelos
Department of "Ciencias e Engenharia do Ambiente", Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

 

 

Past winners of the Teaching Excellence Prize

 


2006 Winner:

Sustainable Development in the Urban Region in Germany and the US:

Dresden and Columbus as Examples

Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Department of Spatial Development and Planning

 

With the cooperation of :

The Ohio State University, USA

City and Regional Program
 

 


2005 Winner:

Methods and Techniques of Spatial Policy Analysis

Institute for Higher Education in Geography and Planning, The Netherlands

Department of Geography and Planning University of Amsterdam.
 

 


2004 Winner:

Spatial Planning
 Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden.
 

 


2003 Winner:

The Town of Children

University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
School of Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning and School of Architecture.
 

 


2002 Winner:

Interprofessional Issues

University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Faculty of the Built Environment

 

Metropolitan planning project, Investigation methods,Visual communication and presentation techniques

Blekinge Institute of Technology Karlskrona Sweden

Department of Spatial Planning
 


2002-2006 AESOP Excellence in teaching prize. DOWNLOAD HERE THE DOCUMENT

 
 
Best published paper  (Back to top)
 

AESOP Best Paper

Selection criteria (some of these criteria will be more or less important, according to the nature of the paper):

  1. The paper relates to spatial planning in some way (note: take a broad perspective here)

  2. High conceptual quality and contribution to ideas/debates

  3. High methodological quality

  4. High significance of findings, for academic and/or policy debate

  5. Strong relation to the literature and debates on spatial planning issues

  6. High overall intellectual quality

  7. High clarity of expression and quality of style (in own language)"

 

Initiated in 1995, with the first award made in 1996, the purpose of the prize is to celebrate the work of the scholars and professionals in the planning field publishing in European planning journals.

It also serves to bring to the attention of planning academics and other interested parties across Europe the range of academic work being undertaken in the spatial planning field and to exchange literature between our different national academic cultures.

Annually, the Editorial Boards of more than 40 European planning journals are invited to nominate the best published papers of their journal for the Prize.

 


*** Best published paper 2007 ***


AESOP Prize Paper Committee decided to award the prize of best published planning paper in 2006 to the next paper:

TORE SAGER

The Logic of Critical Communicative Planning:
Transaction Cost Alteration Planning Theory


Sagers paper is a fascinating endeavour to deal with the biased power relations in approaches of communicative planning. Taking a critical approach of communicative planning, Sager is fully aware of the vulnerability of such assumptions as ‘free dialogue’ and ‘rational arguing’ which easily might get overshadowed by more manipulative uses of power. For this reason he is in search of a sort of counteracting strategy on behalf of deprived groups. Sager proposes to introduce a new strategy of power management by deliberate alteration of political transaction costs. The jury considered the paper as an important contribution to the conceptual perspectives of critical communicative planning and as an interesting attempt to link planning concepts with recent approaches in institutional economics.
 

Jury Report
 


COMPLETE LIST OF THE 48 JOURNALS THAT SUPPORT  THE  AESOP BEST PAPER PRIZE.
 

 
 
BEST CONGRESS PAPER: (Back to top)
 

The objective of the competition is:

  • to promote and disseminate high-quality congress papers,

  • to stimulate the willingness of congress participants to submit and present full congress papers of high quality


Papers will be judged according to the following criteria:

  • relevance to current debates on the chosen topic,

  • clarity of argument(s),

  • originality of the approach and the ideas presented,

  • high methodological quality,

  • clarity of expression and quality of presentation


The Best Congress Paper Competition Committee comprises:

  • Nikos Karadimitriou,

  • Karel Maier,

  • Richard Nunes


*** BEST CONGRESS PAPER 2007 ***

The Best AESOP Congress Paper competition has been running as part of the AESOP Congresses since 2005. Authors can join the competition by self-nomination after complying with certain requirements aimed at promoting the objective of the competition to disseminate highquality congress papers.

In the 2007 Congress in Naples, there were seventeen entries from authors from all over the world, many of them from overseas.

On the base of pre-selection made by the Track Chairs, the Best Congress Paper Committee selected the paper by:

Gérard Hutter
Leibnitz Institute for Ecological and Regional Development in Dresden.

The title of the paper is Strategic Planning for Long-Term Flood Risk Management.

 

Jury Report