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I - AESOP | Association of European Schools of Planning
Promoting Excellence in Planning Education and Research
II - Events
Congresses, Workshops, Meetings, Lectures and Summer School Events
III - Excellence in Planning Education
Safeguarding the development of AESOP’s Quality Recognition Programme
IV - Awards
Awards in Teaching, Best Published Paper, Best Congress Paper
V - Journals
International, peer-reviewed, open-access journals
VI - YA Network | AESOP Young Academics Network
Encouraging the active participation and exchange of academic work from PhD students and Early-Stage Researchers
VII - Thematic Groups
Working groups on specific themes, established in order to create more effective platforms for debate and discussion amongst AESOP members

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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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Global Perspectives in Spatial Development: 2026 AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award Report
(AESOP, 2026) De Castro Mazarro, Alejandro; Joshi, Neelakshi
This report presents Global Perspectives in Spatial Development, the recipient of the 2026 AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award. Developed for Master's students at the Technical University of Dresden, the course examines contemporary spatial development conflicts through the lenses of ecological modernisation and political ecology. Using an inquiry-based learning approach structured around the 5E model, students investigate real-world planning conflicts by combining spatial analysis, critical discourse analysis, and investigative journalism. The report describes the pedagogical framework, learning objectives, teaching methods, assessment strategy, AI integration, and student feedback, highlighting how the course develops critical thinking, interdisciplinary analysis, and reflective planning practice in the context of global sustainability challenges.
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Winner of the 2025 AESOP Excellence In Teaching Award - Urban informality
(AESOP, 2025) Lombard, Melanie; Horn, Philipp
This module takes a novel focus to urban informality, a phenomenon that is increasing in cities globally (Harris 2018), yet remains a challenge for planning. To explore patterns and causes of informality, and assess strengths and limitations of diverse theoretical approaches, it applies a new three-part framework of living, working, and governing informally. It analyses the success of different real-world planning responses to informality, defining planning inclusively to incorporate government-led, donor-led and community-focused initiatives. It takes a global approach, incorporating theory and practice from Southern contexts where informality is well-established, while acknowledging the increasingly prevalent nature of this issue in the global North. The module's pedagogical innovation rests on its problem-based learning approach supported by the critical interrogation of planning theory and practice via alternative representations, co-created resources and repositioning of community knowledge. Weekly lectures convey concepts necessary for understanding informality and providing a critical appraisal of diverse real-world planning responses. Seminars offer an interactive setting for students to prepare assignments via discussion of core readings, which bring academic texts into conversation with alternative representations of informality such as novels, films, photo essays, informal resident and worker testimonies, and media representations. The module is offered to undergraduate students on MPlan Urban Studies and Planning, and postgraduate students on MSc Urban and Regional Planning, MA Urban Design and Planning, and MA International Development programmes.