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    Program Book: AESOP Annual Congress 2025
    (AESOP, 2025)
    This programme book presents the schedule of the AESOP Annual Congress 2025, held in Istanbul from 7 to 11 July 2025. It includes the congress sessions organised by tracks, parallel sessions, special sessions, roundtables, online sessions and special events. The programme lists session titles, dates, times, rooms, chairs, organisers, contributors, paper IDs, authors and presentation titles. The thematic scope covers post-growth urbanism, planning and law, mobility, governance, environment and climate, urban cultures and lived heritage, inclusion, education and skills, urban futures, planning theories, emerging technologies, disaster-resilient planning, housing and shelter, ethics and values in planning, property market actors, food, public space and tourism.
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    Book of Abstracts – AESOP Annual Congress 2025 Transformative Action in an Age of Planetary Crisis
    (AESOP, 2025) Casavola, Donato; van der Hoeven, Frank; Radisavljević, Ljiljana
    This volume contains the abstracts presented at the AESOP Annual Congress 2025, held in Istanbul, Türkiye, from 7–11 July 2025. Under the theme Planning as a Transformative Action in an Age of Planetary Crisis, the congress explored the role of planning in addressing complex environmental, social, economic, and political challenges. The collection brings together contributions from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students covering a wide range of topics, including climate change adaptation, sustainability transitions, housing, mobility, governance, spatial justice, urban cultures and heritage, planning education, and regional development. Through keynote lectures, roundtables, special sessions, thematic tracks, and networking events, the volume reflects contemporary debates on transformative planning and highlights diverse approaches to fostering more just, resilient, and sustainable futures.
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    Book of Proceedings : Planning as a Transformative Action in an Age of Planetary Crisis, 7-11th July 2025
    (AESOP, 2025) Enlil, Zeynep; Dinçer, İclal
    This volume contains the proceedings of the AESOP Conference Planning as a Transformative Action in an Age of Planetary Crisis, held from 7 to 11 July 2025. The conference brought together researchers, educators, practitioners, and early-career scholars from across the world to reflect on the role of planning in addressing the interconnected environmental, social, economic, and political challenges that characterize the contemporary planetary condition. The contributions collected in this volume explore how planning theory, research, education, and practice can support transformative action in response to climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, social inequalities, housing crises, demographic change, digital transformation, and growing geopolitical uncertainty. The papers discuss innovative planning approaches, governance arrangements, participatory methods, spatial justice perspectives, sustainability transitions, and emerging forms of territorial and urban development. Particular attention is given to the capacity of planning to foster resilience, inclusiveness, and long-term sustainability while responding to rapidly changing local and global contexts. Reflecting the interdisciplinary character of AESOP, the proceedings encompass a broad range of thematic areas, methodological approaches, and geographical perspectives. Together, the contributions provide a comprehensive overview of current debates in planning scholarship and demonstrate how planning can act as a transformative force in addressing the complex challenges of an age increasingly defined by planetary crises.
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    Planning for possibilities through critical pragmatism. John Forester in conversation with Giusy Pappalardo and Martin Westin
    (AESOP, 2026) Pappalardo, Giusy; Westin, Martin; Forester, John
    This booklet traces over four decades of scholarly debate and planning practice through the evolution of John Forester’s formulation of a critical pragmatism. Drawing on Forester’s writings, autobiographical reflections, and intergenerational dialogues with planners—as fostered by the AESOP Young Academic Booklet Series Conversations in Planning Theory and Practice—the volume examines how critical pragmatism has developed across time. Structured around four analytical phases of Forester’s work, it explores: (1) the late 1970s–1980s focus on power and communicative action; (2) the 1990s–early 2000s emphasis on learning from practice through stories; (3) the 2000s engagement with conflict mediation and democratic deliberation; and (4) the 2010s attention to improvisation, context responsiveness, and the practical judgment required in planning environments. These phases—described by Forester as “the hidden bones” of his intellectual trajectory—reveal a sustained effort to refine and extend insights from Habermas, Freire, Nussbaum, and others. The booklet also reflects on the post 2020 global landscape shaped by the COVID 19 pandemic, socioecological movements, and renewed struggles against racialized violence and wars. In this context, Forester’s recent work underscores two increasingly vital skills for planners: improvising wisely and listening carefully. These commitments resonate with broader scholarship on the ethics of care, suggesting that planning with care may represent a further evolution of critical pragmatism. The volume concludes with various scholarly contributions and reflections by the co-authors, Giusy Pappalardo and Martin Westin, offering a multifaceted perspective on Forester’s enduring influence on planning theory and practice.
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    Alto Medio Sannio Inner Area Between Marginality, Latent Place Knowledge and Territorial Heritage
    (AESOP, 2025) Giangrande, Francesca; De Bonis, Luciano; Ottaviano, Giovanni
    This paper presents findings from the ongoing Italian PRIN research project RE-PLACE (Reframing the Place-Based Approach through Cultural Ecosystem Services of Inner Areas), which investigates how local communities can contribute to the construction of place knowledge and territorial heritage in marginalised rural regions. Focusing on the Alto Medio Sannio inner area in the Molise region of Italy, the study examines the limitations of conventional place-based development policies, particularly the Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI), and explores alternative approaches grounded in local knowledge, cultural ecosystem services, and territorial heritage. The authors argue that resilience in marginal territories depends not only on external policy interventions but also on the capacity of communities to self-organise and regenerate relationships between people, places, and environmental resources.