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    Why can’t the future be more like the past? Congress programme 15th – 18th July 2009 Liverpool, UK
    (Liverpool University Press, 2009)
    Official programme of the AESOP Annual Congress 2009 held in Liverpool, United Kingdom. The document includes the full congress schedule with keynote sessions, thematic tracks, paper sessions, business meetings, working group meetings, social events, and accompanying persons’ programme. It provides an overview of tracks covering planning theory, education, governance, transport, environmental planning, urban design, participation, complexity, and related fields.
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    24. Landscapes of Elsewhere: On Borders, Practices and Approaches
    (AESOP, 2025) Bensi, Negar Sanaan; Gurgenidze, Tinatin
    This video documents the AESOP Lecture Landscapes of Elsewhere: On Borders, Practices and Approaches, held on 20 November 2025 at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. The lecture brought together scholars working on territorial transformations in contested border regions and explored how landscapes—through their material, ecological, and temporal dimensions—actively participate in shaping borders and the institutions that govern them. The session challenged dominant understandings of borders as purely political constructs imposed on passive territories, instead emphasising reciprocal dynamics between landscapes and bordering practices. Through three situated research contributions focusing on Iran–Afghanistan, South Caucasus, and Georgian–Russian border regions, the lecture examined non-human agencies, environmental traces of conflict, and methodological approaches to researching restricted and sensitive territories. Due to the sensitivity of some materials, selected parts of the presentations have been removed from the publicly available video version.
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    AESOP NEWS SPECIAL EDITION : AESOP Prize Papers in Planning Presented at the Bergen Congress, July 1999
    (AESOP, 1999) AESOP
    This publication brings together the Prize Paper and three Highly Commended Papers selected within the framework of the AESOP Prize for the Best Planning Paper published in Europe. The Prize was established to celebrate excellence in planning scholarship, to promote awareness of high-quality academic work across Europe, and to support the integration of diverse intellectual and planning traditions. The volume includes four papers published in leading European planning journals, covering key thematic areas of the discipline: planning history, urban design and design control, policy implementation, and conceptual debates on society, space and environment. Together, the papers reflect the breadth of planning research in Europe during the late 1990s and illustrate different methodological and theoretical approaches within the field. In addition to presenting the selected papers, the publication documents the AESOP Prize nomination and assessment process, outlining the role of journal editors, AESOP Council members, and the Nominating Committee. As such, the booklet serves both as a record of academic recognition and as a historical document illustrating how planning research excellence was identified and evaluated within the European planning community.
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    Prize winning BPPA 1997 Creating the Charter of Athens: CIAM and the Functional City, 1933-43
    (Liverpool University Press, 1998) Gold, John R.
    This paper provides a historical analysis of a key document in twentieth century Architecture and Planning in Europe. It shows how a widely accepted defining moment in the development and promotion of functionalist modern planning, the CIAM IV and the Athens Charter, was in fact a contested and long drawn out process, in which the persistence of few people, notably Sert and le Corbusier, not only maintained the momentum to produce the Charter, but also ensured it carried a firmly ‘modernist’ stance. The paper is grounded very thoroughly in primary documents and in the conceptual issues at stake, and throws a fascinating light on the different conceptions of urban planning being developed in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. It is very well written and structured, and constitutes a valuable contribution to knowledge.
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    Runner up BPPA 1997 Design control — bridging the professional divide, part 1: A new framework
    (Taylor & Francis, 1998) Carmona, Matthew
    The design quality of development in new and established environments frequently represents the clearest outward expression of planning effort and the means through which local populations most readily evaluate the role and success of the planning and development process. With support for local authorities to pursue more interventionist and proactive design agendas coming from central government in the UK, local authorities and the populations they represent may less readily stand for the laissez‐faire approaches to design control necessarily adopted in the past. In this new context, Part 1 of this paper explores the new framework for design control in England. It begins by identifying the established critiques of design control, which are subsequently used as a means to examine the recent changes in government advice in the form of (revised) Planning Policy Guidance Note 1: General Policy and Principles (1997). In Part 2 the responses of the full range of development, professional and amenity bodies to the guidance are examined in detail. The analysis is undertaken as a means to explore whether the about‐turn in government thinking on design has infused through all the key players in the planning/development process, or whether the age‐old inter‐professional antagonisms on this subject are still alive and well. Part 2 concludes by drawing out any cross‐professional common ground, and by comparing the established critiques of design control identified in Part 1 against the consensus positions suggested by the analysis in Part 2.