XXI AESOP Conference: Planning for the Risk Society. Dealing with Uncertainty. Challenging the Future - Programme

Abstract

The XXI AESOP Conference 2007: Programme documents the structure, scope, and academic organisation of the twenty-first annual congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), held in Naples, Italy, in 2007. The programme provides a comprehensive overview of the congress agenda, including plenary sessions, keynote lectures, parallel thematic tracks, round tables, meetings of AESOP bodies, and social and networking events. The document reflects the breadth of contemporary debates in European spatial and urban planning at the time, bringing together scholars, educators, and practitioners from across Europe and beyond. Through its detailed scheduling and thematic organisation, the programme illustrates the role of the AESOP Annual Congress as a key platform for academic exchange, methodological discussion, and institutional development within the planning discipline. As an archival source, the programme is valuable for reconstructing the intellectual landscape of planning research and education in the mid-2000s, as well as for documenting the evolution of AESOP’s conference formats, thematic priorities, and community practices. It serves both as a historical record of the Naples congress and as contextual material complementing related outputs such as books of abstracts, conference papers, presentations, and reports preserved in the AESOP Digital Archive.