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    Photos from the 2016 IV WPSC "Global crisis, planning & challenges to spatial justice in the North and in the South", Rio de Janeiro
    (AESOP, 2016)
    Photographs from the IV World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC), Rio de Janeiro, 2016
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    IV World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC): Call for Papers
    (AESOP, 2016)
    This document is the official Call for Papers for the IV World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 3–8 July 2016. The congress was organised under the auspices of the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and hosted by the Institute of Urban and Regional Research and Planning (IPPUR) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in cooperation with the Brazilian Association of Research and Graduate Studies in Urban and Regional Planning (ANPUR). The call outlines the objectives of the congress, submission procedures, conference tracks, and key deadlines for abstract and paper submissions. The event aimed to bring together planning scholars and professionals from around the world to exchange research and debate contemporary challenges in urban and regional planning.
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    The world in the Americas – a reflection on the 2016 World Planning Schools Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    (Taylor & Francis, 2017) Balsas, Carlos
    (ACSP), the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), and the Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA), one may feel compelled to question the purpose of such meetings. Isit still relevant and opportune to organize world congresses, such as those of the World Planning Schools? Are congress participants still drawn by the opportunity to meet their colleagues from thousands of miles away in a setting they may or may not have been before? Are conference participants mindful of the carbon impact of such professional gatherings, including the flying often required to reach conference locations? Do individuals still need face-to-face interactions in order to develop and cultivate successful professional networks in the age of social media? Or are world congresses mostly part of a battery of mega-events punctuating cities that want to place themselves and their leadership on the map as cosmopolitan, welcoming, competitive and as having lessons to share with the rest of the world? These interrogations are certainly pertinent now more than ever for at least three reasons: (1) the growing role of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), (2) higher degrees of awareness in what pertains to local actions with global impacts, and (3) the incongruousness of reductive unidimensional worldviews (Kennedy, 2015). These tendencies seem to be shrinking distances among individuals and informing worldwide audiences of the need to accept that a city - and its urban and regional planning - is more complex than professional practice can grasp (Balsas, 2015; Brenner, 2014).
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    IV World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC): Congress Programme
    (Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN), 2016)
    This document contains the official programme of the IV World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 3–8 July 2016. The congress brought together scholars, educators and professionals in urban and regional planning from around the world to discuss the theme “Global Crisis, Planning and Challenges to Spatial Justice in the North and in the South.” The programme includes information on the congress rationale, organising committees, scientific committee, keynote speakers, plenary sessions, special sessions, track sessions, roundtables and PhD workshops. The event was organised under the auspices of the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and hosted by the Institute of Urban and Regional Research and Planning (IPPUR) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in collaboration with ANPUR and other Brazilian universities. The congress addressed key contemporary challenges in planning education and practice, including spatial justice, governance, urbanisation, climate change, infrastructure, housing, planning theory, and regional development, bringing together contributions from planning schools across the Global North and South.
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    Repository Policy – AESOP Eprints
    (AESOP, 2022)
    This policy defines the aims, scope, governance framework, and operational principles of the AESOP Eprints institutional repository, established by the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). The document outlines metadata policy, data policy, content scope, submission and versioning rules, privacy provisions, curation and preservation procedures, withdrawal conditions, harvesting principles, and annual revision procedures. The repository operates on a DSpace-based open-source platform and complies with OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories v3.