AESOP Eprints
Institutional Repository of the Association of European Schools of Planning
Communities in AESOP Eprints
Select a community to browse its collections.
- Promoting Excellence in Planning Education and Research
- Congresses, Workshops, Meetings, Lectures and Summer School Events
- Safeguarding the development of AESOP’s Quality Recognition Programme
- Awards in Teaching, Best Published Paper, Best Congress Paper
- International, peer-reviewed, open-access journals
Recent Submissions
Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
(AESOP, 2016) Randolph, Rainer
We are publishing here the extended abstracts presented at the IV WPSC. Those which were discussed in the Track Sessions, as well as a considerable number of contributions in Plenary and Special Sessions and Roundtables. Farnak Miraftab´s Opening Keynote “Insurgency, planning and the prospect of a humane urbanism” was published (in portuguese) in ANPUR´s journal Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (Brazilian Journal of Urban and Regional Studies), v.18, n. 3 (2016), p. 363-377 (http://rbeur.anpur.org.br/rbeur/article/view/5499).
It is our conviction that these texts reflect an important panorama of ideas, thoughts, experiences and practices of the nearly 600 researchers, scientists, students and practioneers who attended the congress in Rio de Janeiro with the aim to have an unique opportunity to discuss the matter of planning with colleagues from all over the world.
As it puts our colleague Carlos Balsas in the conclusions he wrote about his experiences by participating the discussions at the congress: “Attention was directed at the need to look forward to more planning not less, more planning research not less, and more educational opportunities to strengthen urban and regional planning. … Alternative paradigms based on the radical deconstruction of prevailing knowledge sets and philosophies by some of those living in southern and northern hemispheres are making positive strides and can be confidently further developed”
Program of the Game changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions
(AESOP, 2024)
Paris is now another example of the urban impact caused by significant events like the Olympics. However, it generally raises questions about all urban transformations intended to be virtuous but often proves counterproductive. Both great events and disasters teach us to adopt a rigorous and critical approach to significant events. Moreover, this occasion provides an opportunity to ponder the interface between new and emerging themes that Tracks, Round tables and Special sessions offer from the various networks connecting AESOP researchers, institutions and countries of origin. A new section introduced this year - French Cuisine - addresses the interface with researchers in France and the world of operational urban planning, which is in a constant dialogue with researchers in France Lastly, it entails reflection on the ongoing significant challenges, transitions, and changes, as well as the wars and conflicts that we cannot ignore, even though we may not know how to address them.
Book of Abstracts : Game changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions
(AESOP, 2024)
Welcome to Paris and to the Urban School and the CEE of Sciences Po
Paris is now another example of the urban impact caused by significant events like the Olympics. However, it generally raises questions about all urban transformations intended to be virtuous but often proves counterproductive. Both great events and disasters teach us to adopt a rigorous and critical approach to significant events. Moreover, this occasion provides an opportunity to ponder the interface between new and emerging themes that Tracks, Round tables and Special sessions offer from the various networks connecting AESOP researchers, institutions and countries of origin. A new section introduced this year - French Cuisine - addresses the interface with researchers in France and the world of operational urban planning, which is in a constant dialogue with researchers in France Lastly, it entails reflection on the ongoing significant challenges, transitions, and changes, as well as the wars and conflicts that we cannot ignore, even though we may not know how to address them.
Book of Proceedings : Game changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions
(AESOP, 2024) Cremaschi, Marco
Paris is now another example of the urban impact caused by significant events like the Olympics. However, it generally raises questions about all urban transformations intended to be virtuous but often proves counterproductive. Both great events and disasters teach us to adopt a rigorous and critical approach to significant events. Moreover, this occasion provides an opportunity to ponder the interface between new and emerging themes that Tracks, Round tables and Special sessions offer from the various networks connecting AESOP researchers, institutions and countries of origin. A new section introduced this year - French Cuisine - addresses the interface with researchers in France and the world of operational urban planning, which is in a constant dialogue with researchers in France Lastly, it entails reflection on the ongoing significant challenges, transitions, and changes, as well as the wars and conflicts that we cannot ignore, even though we may not know how to address them.
Winner of the 2024 AESOP Excellence In Teaching Award - The city and the environment
(AESOP, 2024) Román López, Emilia; Hernández Córdoba, Rafael
‘The city and the environment’ is a compulsory urban planning course taught in the 3rd year of the Foundation Degree in Architecture at the School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. It deals with the relationship between the city and its physical-climatic environment through the study, analysis, diagnosis, and proposals at the territorial and urban scale. It is organised based on a practical workshop but considering the need for a concrete and exhaustive knowledge of the basic concepts and relationships established between urban centres and the physical environment in which they are located.
In the first part of the workshop, an approach to the city and its territory will be made at different scales, carrying out different analysis exercises: physical and climatic environment, environmental aspects, landscape, etc., to end with a synthesis and territorial diagnosis to obtain the suitability of the land for certain uses (urban, agricultural-livestock and protection). This part will be supported by an instrumental block, which will help to know the analysis tools used in practice, based on the Geographic Information System (GIS).
In the second part of the workshop, an environmental assessment of a specific urban area will be carried out with the aim of proposing microclimatic improvements, focusing on healthy urban design, in its outdoor public spaces (streets, squares, urban edges, facilities, etc.)
During the workshop classes, a debate will be established between all the working groups, which will constitute the main scenario for the development of the practical work and for its follow-up by the teachers.