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Reality, from the Netherlands to Torquay united
(Cliff Hague (blog), 1987) Hague, Cliff
Sunday Amsterdam. I came here last Thursday for the inaugural congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning. It has rained non-stop. Having been born and bred in Manchester, swaddled in a sou'wester and plastic mac, I have a particular aversion to foreign rain. Not out of chauvinism; Amsterdam's rain matches Salford's best concoctions in intensity, variety and wetness. Quite simply, when I go abroad, I expect the sun to shine, even at this time of year. When it doesn’t, I feel cheated, not elated, by the realisation that others don't actually enjoy benefits denied to me. Still, even in the rain, Amsterdam, this year's European City of Culture, does have a certain something that cannot be found in Salford, and which will still be elusive in Glasgow when that city wears the European cultural crown for 1990. I have the morning free, so I head for Bijlmermeer. This public housing estate on the south-eastern edge of Amsterdam was built in the 1960s and early 1970s, housing about 25,000 people. The massive zig-zag of ten-storey slab blocks probably looked exciting on the drawing board, but Bijlmermeer quickly became a by-word for the problems of the outer estates in the Netherlands. I haven't seen it since 1973, but Amsterdam now has 60,000 unemployed, and I've seen plenty of depressed housing estates on the edge of British cities. The visual clues suggest that Bijlmermeer shares some of the characteristics of Britain's outer estates. Car ownership is low, in-comes are below average, people queue to use the public phones, there are signs of a high child population and there's graffiti, the residents are disproportionately black. But there isn't the sense of despair and isolation that you get in Britain. The public phones actually work. There is a substantial pedestrianised shopping centre with a wide range of big-name retailers. I can't see any boarded-up or burnt-out flats. Industrial units are still occupied. It takes me ten minutes to get back into town on the metro. I get off at Nieuwmarkt, where redevelopment for the metro was bitterly resisted by action groups in the 1970s. Their confrontations with the riot police are commemorated in a fragmented mural on the metro wall. Scenes from the struggle are depicted between tumbling bricks as the huge iron ball of the demolition men hits the wall. Is this Dutch tolerance, or a memento to heroic resistance, or a way of neutralising and incorporating urban protest, or all three? Completing the nostalgia I visit the Jordaan, on the tringe of the city centre. In the 1970s I had friends in action groups here. They were opposing redevelopment of this historic working-class district of tall canal houses with precipitous staircases. They won. There has been some infill, but the street markets are still there amid the fascinating lattice of tiny streets. Today the threat to community is less from planning than from market forces. On a brief visit in the rain the Jordaan does not look as gentrified as I'd feared it might have been. So, I head for Schipol and home, heady with the rediscovery of paths I had trodden so long ago. The broad-based community action in defence of place and class which Action Group Jordaan practised in the early 1970s still seems an exemplar for a planning practice that is participatory and redistributive. Planning should be about co-operative working to make places better for those who live there. Such planning should be educative to all those involved, and it should be fun. In the end the victories of Amsterdam's action groups were only partial, but victories are scarce and should be celebrated. I buy a bottle of jenever at the duty-free to prolong the reverie through the long winter nights.
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Introduction - founding conference of AESOP in Amsterdam
(Springer, 1987) Faludi, Andreas
As part of its 25th anniversary-celebrations, the Institute for Planning and Demography of the University of Amsterdam hosted the Founding Conference of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) on 19th to 21st November, 1987. The holding of this conference is a sure sign that European planning education has come of age. In the recent past we have witnessed a trend towards independent programmes. But many differences remain, and institutional, cultural and linguistic boundaries hamper a continuous flow of exchange between those with a professional concern for planning education. The Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) aims to im- prove this situation. In taking the initiative, the founding committee has drawn inspiration from the example set by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in North America. Thus, AESOP will be a plat- form for exchanges and a focus for joint action in the field of European planning education. Also, it will provide mutual support to its members. The conference discussed how to achieve these aims. Also, an immediate start was made with productive exchanges. To introduce the almost one hundred planning educators to the local situation, planning problems of Amsterdam were discussed. The main educational papers were: "The Evolution of Planning Education in Europe" (A. Rodriguez-Bachiller, Senior Lecturer, Oxford); "The Changing Context of Planning Education and Research: An American Perspective" (Professor E.R. Alexander, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee); "Dutch Planning Education: where it is now and how it got there" (Dr. Barrie Needham, Senior Lecturer, Catholic University of Nijmegen); and "Dutch planning education in its international context (Professor A. Faludi, University of Amsterdam). Workshops concerned topics like: "New jobs for planners? The job market" (Convenor Professor L. Albrechts, University of Louvain, Louvain); "Planning fashions. How to respond in planning education and research" (Convenor Professor B. Marchand, University of Paris VIII); "Are we fair to overseas students?" (Convenor Professor Klaus R. Kunzmann, University of Dortmund); "Research education and training: The lonely PhD student?" (Convenor Professor P. Healey, University of Newcastle); "Post-modern planning: Retreat to urban design?" (Convenor: Professor D. Frick, Berlin University of Technology); "For which future do we educate planners?" (Convenor Professor W. Schmid, Zurich University of Technology). Practical issues like the ERASMUS arrangements, a newsletter, the 1988 conference (due to be held at the University of Dortmund), a directory of planning schools and research were also discussed. The papers below are the two Dutch presentations. Both authors have been involved in planning education abroad. Barrie Needham has lectured at various English planning schools, in particular at the University of Aston at Birmingham. He is a one-time president of the Education for Planning Association. Andreas Faludi, too, has lectured in England, at the Oxford Polytechnic, before coming to the Netherlands where he has devoted his Delft inaugural lecture to the topic of "Planning theory and the education of planners".
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Leaflet of the 2nd Annual AESOP Congress The Environment in Planning Education, 1988
(AESOP, 1988)
Association of European Schools Of Planning Universität Dortmund About AESOP The reasons for establishing AESOP are among others: 1. There is little comparative information about planning schools in Europe. As a rule one knows very little about curricula, aims, research, degrees, professional career prospects and the relation between educational provision and the structure of planning in each country 2. Given the small number of planning schools in most European countries (Britain is an exception), there is a need for a network of European allies to find international support and backing. The discipline which is still young and emerging needs the confidence which an international alliance can foster. 3. The increasing economic integration of Europe will also have an effect on the job market for planners. It will encourage planners to work outside their own country, and require a better knowledge of planning-related conditions and systems in other European countries. 4. Planning problems and environmental issues in all European countries have become much more internationalized. Euro- pean policies effect local and regional economic development and have an impact on the environment. Consequently planning schools have to introduce a more intemnational dimension into planning curricula. The AESOP network is one means to communicate ideas and approaches about how this may be done. 5. By creating a European network of those involved in planning education, opportunities are created which may lead to new comparative research within Europe, lead to the exchange of staff and students and to mutual visits of student groups 6. The policy of the European Commission of intensifying the exchange of students within its members countries will require mutual recognition of credits, of academic degrees and diplomas. AESOP could contribute to facilities such mutual re- cognition by better and comparative information. 7. In Europe, the development of planning knowledge, theory and method is hampered by language constraints. The AESOP network and its activities should encourage communication in other than our respective mother tongues, thus contributing to more cross-national communication and the consolidation of planning as a discipline.
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Editorials
(Taylor and Francis, 1988) Griffiths, Ron; Morphet, Janice; Thornley, Andy
Reflections on Europe: the 1988 AESOP: Congress Everyone is talking about 1992. However most of the discussion is highly speculative—it would be valuable to know more about the actual thinking in Brussels at the moment. How is planning viewed at the European scale? The Association of European Schools of Planning at its 2nd Annual Congress in Dortmund in November was fortunate in having a speaker from the European Commission in the form of Gunter Schneider, Director of the Directorate for Environment. It was clear from his presentation that 'green' issues are a significant part of the Commission's activity. This has been the case for some time, spurred on by controversies and national policies that detrimentally effect neighbouring countries, including problems of nuclear waste, toxic dumping, agricultural practices, and pollution of the sea. Gunter Schneider explained how the longstanding concern of the Commission was now entering a new phase with an emphasis on the integration of environmental programmes into other programmes such as the economic and social ones. However, whereas the environmental programme has been at the forefront of the Commission's work for some time, its interest in spatial planning as such was just beginning. Up to now, spatial planning has been considered a matter of local concern and therefore not within the remit of the EEC. This attitude is changing. The impact of major projects like the Channel Tunnel and high-speed trains, and shifts such as an ageing northern population, demands for leisure and tourism or the importance of pleasant living conditions in deciding on economic location — all these have spatial implications of European significance. Taken together with the concern for increased integration of policies we can expect spatial planning to be firmly on the Commission agenda in the coming years. There will be a strong message coming across that such planning is essential for the future quality of life and also for the longer term sustainability of economic development. Mrs Thatcher seems to have turned green recently, she will now actually have to implement some of the rhetoric. Planning education and research will also have to respond and place greater importance on environmental aspects. Maybe we have the basis here for a resurrection of the planning system. Is this why the Prime Minister seems so scared of moves towards greater integration of European social policies?
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ACSP/AESOP Joint Congress, Oxford, July 8-12 1991
(Planning History Group, 1991) Ward, Stephen
By any standards the first Joint International Congress of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (of North America) and the Association of European Planning Schools was a unique and extraordinary event. This claim might be regarded as a typical piece of promotional hyperbole, coming as it does from a member of the host institution's organising committee. But the facts speak for themselves: 700 delegates, half of them from North America with the remainder split more or less equally between Britain and the rest of Europe, converged on Oxford making it the largest ever gathering of planning educators anywhere. Just under 400 papers were presented, mainly in 16 parallel 'tracks', each with American and European co-chairs. Conference sessions were balanced by a full complementary programme of study visits, social events, receptions etc.
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‘Planning transatlantic: global change and local problems’, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) joint international congress: Oxford, UK, 8–12 July 1991
(Elsevier, 1991) Caves, Roger W.
The Joint International Congress rep- resents the first cooperative venture between the North American ACSP and the European AESOP. As of 1990, 117 undergraduate and graduate programmes in urban planning and urban affairs were members of ACSP while there were over 70 full mem- bers. Recognizing that unprecedented changes have taken place over the past few years, the Congress enabled parti- cipants from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean to share ideas and information on a vast array of topics. More than 600 individuals from 23 countries in- cluding the USA, UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden. Au- stralia. France, Czechoslovakia and Israel attended the Congress. Individuals attending the Congress were afforded the opportunity to hear three interesting plenary sessions. Peter Hall, University of California, Berkeley (USA) spoke of an interna- tional agenda for planning in 'Plan- ning transatlantic: the agenda for the 1990s'. Within his talk, Professor Hall commented on the restructuring of London, the impacts of growth, the regeneration of great provincial cities, transatlantic contrasts, the role of the state, and the role of planning educa- tion. Professor David Hall, Oxford University (UK) gave a very informa- tive talk on 'social justice, post- modernism and the city'. Marios Camhis, EC Regional Policy Directo- rate, concluded the Congress with a discussion of 'Europe 2000'.
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List of participants : VII AESOP Congress Łódź, Poland 14-17 July 1993
(AESOP, 1993)
This is the list of participants in the 7th AESOP Congress. All persons who have registrated for the congress by July 5, 1993 have been included. The participants have been placed in alphabetical order according to their family names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers (where available).
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Book of Abstracts : Planning and Environment in Transforming Europe 7th AESOP congress Lodz, Poland 14-17 July 1993
(AESOP, 1993) Marszał, Tadeusz
We have much pleasure in providing the AESOP Congress participants with this book containing abstracts delivered for presentation during the Congress. These are all abstracts submitted before the end of May, also by the persons who expressed interest in participating without final registration. Since many abstracts were prepared much in advance, it may occur that some of them may not correspond strictly to normal Congress presentation form. This publication appears to offer quite a comprehensive overview of recent research pursuits in the field of planning. The abstracts have been placed in alphabetical order according to the family name of the first author. The preparation of this booklet was possible, thanks to the efforts of a number of persons but special appreciation should go to Marika Pirveli. Tadeusz MARSZAŁ Congress Chair
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Program 7th AESOP congress "Planning and Environment in Transforming Europe" Łódź, Poland 14-17 July
(AESOP, 1993)
WELCOME It is a great pleasure to welcome you to Łódź and the VII AESOP Congress, which is taking place for the first time in Central and Eastern Europe. As we move through the last decade of the 20th century, major changes in the European Community and the liberalisation of the central and eastern part of the continent lead us to a new range of social and economic problems. The organisation of the AESOP Congress in Poland should be considered as a contribution to the deeper understanding of these processes. "Planning and Environment in Transforming Europe" is the designated theme for the VII Congress. We hope that this international meeting will help to reflect on environmental challenges facing our continent as well as on spatial organisation of human activity, past and present, and to evaluate the choices for our future. The Congress is also expected to promote international research and educational activities by creating new possibilities of developing cooperation between academics from all parts of Europe, outline new orientations for research, and enhance the understanding of the role of planning in market economy of transforming Europe. Apart from scientific programme, throughout the three successive days of the Congress there will be interesting social events for participants and accompanying persons. Scientific field trips will provide an opportunity for not only confrontation of theoretical and empirical facets of our planning knowledge, but also of discovering the central region of Poland. On behalf of the Łódź University and the Organising Committee I take pleasure in inviting you to participate in the scientific and social programme of the Congress. We believe that with the contribution of all members the AESOP Congress in Łódź will prove successful. Tadeusz MARSZAŁ Congress Chair
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Announcement of 8th Congress 24-27 August 1994 The Marmara Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey Yildiz Technical University
(International Planning History Society, 1993)
The scientific programme of the congress is planned to consist of two plenary sessions, parallel sessions, poster sessions, a roundtable and workshops. The following topics are being indicated here to serve as guidelines for those who wish to participate and/ or submit abstracts. The tracks will be determined and announced in a second notice, in the letter of acceptance.
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List of participants : VIII AESOP Congress Istanbul Turkey, 1994
(AESOP, 1994)
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Book of abstracts : 8th annual congress of AESOP, Istanbul, Aug. 1994.
(AESOP, 1994)
Noman Ahmed Oya Akın Figen Akpınar Louis Albrechts J. D. Alden Ernest R. Alexander Alexander Alexandrov S. Alexandrova O. A. Aliev Zeynep Altan Rachelle Alterman David P Amborski Jorgen Amdam A. Amir Iris Aravot Franco Archibugi F. Arsac Jos Arts Gül Asatekin Sigmund Asmervik Semra Atabay Olcay Aykut Angela Badami Alessandro Balducci Beata Banachowicz Angela Barbanente A. Barbaros Rosaria Battarra Marcel Bazin Corrado Beguinot Feyzan Beler Michael Benfield Hülya Berkmen Yakar Lale Berköz Akkal Sandra Bonfiglioli Christine J. Booth Peter Booth D. Borri Robin Boyle Mike Breakell Elise Bright Susan Brockett Alberto Pizzati Caiani Terosa Cannarozzo Urbano Cardarelli Clara Cardia Maurizio Carta A. Casolaro Hüseyin Cengiz llka Cerpes F. P. Cilento Jim Claydon M. Clemente H. Coccossis G. Concilio C. Conte Fausto Curti Ryszard Cymerman T. Çalgüner Ayten Çetiner Şeniz Çıkış Mehmet Çubuk Gerald Daly Simin Davoudi Kees De Boer Alessandra De Cugiis Gert De Roo Serap Demir Dr. Denuel Pacla Di Carlo Maria Terasa Di Marco B. Dikçınar Nazire Diker Çamlibel İclal Dinçer Elna Djemalatdinova Peter L. Doan Maciej Dobrowolski Vedia Dökmeci E. Ennen Nilgün Ergun Demet Erol Mehmet Even Andreas Faludi Carmela Fedele Giovanni Ferraro Romano Fistola Hakan Forsberg Leslie Forsyth A. Frankei John Friedmann Alex Fubini Gabriella Galgignato Carmela Gargiulo Ferhan Gezici Joige A. Giordani Tamer Gök Sedef Gönenç Nilgün Görer T. Gôrgülü Zeki Görgülü John V. Greer Nuran Zeren Gülersoy Nevin Gültekin Orcan Gündüz Özlem Güngör Slawomir Gzell Andrea Haase Salahaddin Halilov Tony Hall Richard Hammersley Thomas Harper Patsy Healey Tim Heath Anna Geppert Hebrard Arild Holt-Jensen Andrzej Hopper Rik Houthave Patrizia Ingallina Chingiz Ismailov Ertürk İşıkpınar Aydın İbrahimoğlu Şule İnankul Giacinta Jalongo Myriam Jansen-Verbeke Bob Jarvis Valentina Jideleva Arzu Kahraman Mee Kam Ng Arthur Kanonier Hülagü Kaplan Aykut Karaman Rufat M. Kasumoy Ruşen Keleş Geoffrey Keogh A. J. Khaboutdinov İsmet Kılınçarslan Katarzyna Kierczynska Paul Knox Mary-Ann Knudstrup Olesen Liisa Knuuti Arzu Kocabaş Ercan Koç Hülya Koç W.J Kombe Vlatko P. Korobar Peter K. Koschitz Ayşe Sema Kubat Can Kumbaracıbaşı Klaus R. Kunzmann R. A. La Rocca T. Laguna Christine Lambert H. Law Yone Henri Lechenault Hoe Lim Olivier Lingbeek Helena Linzer Francesco Lo Piccolo Sevgi Lökçe Ursula Lukassen Ali Madani - Pour Emre Madran Fernanda Magalhaes Tadeusz Markowski Gitte Marling Carolina Marquez Guerrero Tadeusz Marszal Carlos Manuel Martins da Costa H. Mat Kamila Matovskova Joseph Malachy Mc Eldowney Zeynep Merey Enlil Stephan Merrett Peter Meyer Wolfrirch Michalski Alain Motte J.C Moughtin Michael Murray Vincent Nadin Parviz Nazem Michael Neuman Peter M. Ngau Leo W. Nooteboom A. Notrangelo John O'Sullivan Nick Oatley Taner Oc Mehmet Ocakçı Ebru Vesile Ocalır Ayşenur Okten Şebnem Onal Gül Berna Özcan Zuhal Ozcan Nimet Ozgönül Ayşe Öztürk G.William Page Jean-Claude Paicheler Rocco Papa Apostolos Parpairis Amir Pasic Ayşe Paşalıoğlu R. Pedone Bianca Petrella Giorgio Piccinato F. Pinto Artur da Rosa Pires Laura Pogliani Dilek Postacıoğlu Michael C. Poulton George Prevelakis John V. Punter Romuaid Pustelnik Sırma Ramazanoğulları Antony Ramsay Bjomn Roe S. M Romaya Bemardo Rossi-Doria Ines Sanchez de Madariaga G. Sands Gerhard Schimak Derek Senior Francisco Serdoura Elisabetta Serra Ülker Baykan Seymen David Shaw Daniel Shefer Deborah Shmueli Maria Grazia Silverii Lindsay Smales Michael Southworth Albert Speer Stanley Stain Marialuce Stanganelli Jerzy Suchta Alicija Szajnoziska-Wysocka Betül Şengezer Nihal Şenlier Elif Tanrıyar Dikmen Taşçı İlhan Tekeli Steven Tiesdell Vesselina R. Troeva Anatoly M. Trofimov Jekabs Trusins Güzin Türel Handan Türkoğlu Zuhal Ulusoy P. Urciuoli Ozlem Unal Alper Unlü F. va der Molen Nina Vaerum Irina van Aalst Lennard van Damme Ko Verdaas Guy Vernet Elisenda Vila Martin Vinzens Pekka V. Virtannen Andreas Voigt H. Voogd Ariella Vraneski Ibrahim Wahab Hans Peter Walchhofer James P. Warfield Tim Westlake David Whitney Gwyndaf Williams Richard Wiliams Willem Wissink Beril Yalçın Fatih Bülent Yaren Ayfer Yazgan Gül Zekiye Yenen Christopher J.L Yewlett Murat Yıldız Oren Yiftachel Rykiel Zbigniew Wojcicch Zebrowski Pierre Zembri Corrado Zoppi
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ACSP I AESOP Joint International Congrcs. Toronto, Canada, 25-28 July 1996
(International Planning History Society, 1996) Ward, Stephen V.
Five years ago in 1991, the first joint conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) took place at what was then Oxford Polytechnic in the historic city of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The 1996 Toronto conference was the 'return match', hosted by the Ryerson Polytechnic University and held at the Chelsea Delta Hotel, close to the metropolitan attractions of downtown Toronto. Predictably, the conference, in one of North America's most appealing cities, drew many hundreds of delegates, from both continents. There were no less than 19 subject 'tracks' running simultaneously, plus a poster 'track'. In total, something over 650 papers were programmed, together with 32 fieldtrips ('mobile workshops') and several plenary sessions. Elsewhere on the continent, so it was rumoured, the Olympic Games were taking place. Within all this activity there was a planning history track comprising almost thirty individual offerings, together with several historical papers scattered in other parts of the programme. As in all such events, it is difficult to convey a full flavour of what was on offer, but this review tries to record at least some fragments of the whole event that were particularly relevant to practitioners of planning history.
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The XIV AESOP Congress in Brno, 19.-22. July 2000
(Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, 2000) Schmeidler, Karel
The XIV European Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)2 was ceremonially opened on Wed- nesday 19 July 2000 in the Ro- tunda of Pavilion A at Brno Exhi- bition Centre. The motto of this year«s congress was »Planning at a Turning Point«. The most im- portant event in AESOP«s pro- gramme is its annual congress, where a broad spectrum of work from individual schools is put for- ward. It also features presenta- tion of scientific research work and educational work, and dis- cussion of individual topics rela- ting to, for example, town and land planning, issues in the so- ciology of towns and cities, settle- ment geography, regional issues, the economy of towns and cities, and the legal issues involved in planning. The congress is usually accompanied by local excursions, business negotiations and mee- tings of interest groups. Congres- ses are held in member countries, and focus on particular issues depending on the specific condi- tions of the time. It is always or- ganised by a university with a good name in a specialist field. Each year those attending the congress take an interest in local town planning issues and draw up local studies.
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Book of abstracts : XIV Congress AESOP Planning at a Turning Point, Brno, Czech Republic July 18 - 23, 2000
(AESOP, 2000) Schmeidler, Karel
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Our dream has become reality - Brno is the venue for the congress of AESOP, an educational and scientific organisation with a growing importance in the European and global context. Eleven years ago such an idea would have been mere fantasy. I am extremely glad that we have been chosen to hold the AESOP congress, and that you have come to the event and have the opportunity of seeing Southern Moravia, its industrial and educational centre ... In many regards we will have to say goodbye to outdated methods, and to take on a comprehensive approach to the issues. Associated with this is the scope of vision and competence, the given comprehensiveness of study and the development of the personality of the student at technical universities. A considerable role here is to be played by the humanities and social sciences, if only because a multi-disciplinary approach is imperative to the resolution of complex problems at the end of the 20h century and beginning of the 21" century. We have arranged your stay in Brno and the congress programme with great enthusiasm and the help of the preparatory committee and the organisation TA-SERVICE Brno. I would finally like to thank you once again for coming to Brno, and to wish you all the greatest of success. Brno, Monday 19 June 2000 Doc. Ing. arch. PhDr. Karel Schmeidler, CSc. Chairman of the AESOP Brno 2000 Organisational Committee
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Book of Abstracts : Planning in Border Regions, Volos, Greece, 10-12 July 2002
(AESOP, 2002)
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Program of the ACSP - AESOP Third joint congress Leuven, Belgium July 8th - 12th 2003
(AESOP, 2003)
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Book of abstracts : The Dream of a greater Europe, Vienna, Austria, July 13-17, 2005
(AESOP, 2005) Voigt, Andreas; Kanonier, Arthur
This Book of Abstracts is intended to serve as a valuable guidance for the 2005 AESOP Congress, enabling the participants to organise their schedules for “The Dream of a GREATER Europe”. The book in hand can serve as a quick reference to the main aspects of the many different issues arising for the planning profession in Europe within the unification process. But in a deeper sense, it is also intended to represent a focal point, a key node in the network of communication among the many disciplines which have their part to play in the challenges of the enlargement process. Due to the variety of topics addressed as well as the large number of abstracts we received, the abstracts are structured by topic in the main tracks and by alphabetical order of the author’s surname within each topic. An alphabetical person index at the end of this book will assist you in finding articles. On the basis of the general theme “The Dream of a GREATER Europe” and 15 thematic tracks including detailed track statements, the conference received over 500 abstracts from 45 countries worldwide. The abstracts were blind-reviewed by an international jury consisting of 29 track chairs and additional anonymous readers who scored the papers and entered more than 700 reviews and comments, thus making an essential contribution to scientific quality assurance. The jury members were assigned in accordance with their fields of expertise and the papers’ keywords. The scores were used as the basis for selecting papers for the conference. Reviews and comments were delivered to the authors in order to improve the quality of the full papers. Authors could select between the following further procedures for submitting full papers: – Best AESOP Congress Paper Procedure: as part of a general effort to promote the submission and dissemination of high quality congress papers, AESOP in cooperation with the local organizing committee organized the first ”Best AESOP Congress Paper Competition” - full papers had to be sent in via the electronic submission interface; – AESOP Optional Standard Procedure: full papers had to be sent in via the electronic submission interface; – AESOP Standard Procedure: full paper is to be delivered at the conference. A total of 410 papers are now being presented; many of these contributions brought new knowledge and/or extended and improved on the previous status of information. While we have made every effort to achieve uniformity of style, the presented results and the final shape of the manuscript remain the sole responsibility of the presenting authors. Two Chairs were responsible for each Track (namely: Andreas Faludi, Karina Pallagst, Simin Davoudi, Walter Schönwandt, Stanley Stein, Marco van der Land, Jens S. Dangschat, Rachelle Alterman, Benjamin Davy, Marcel Bazin, Alex Fubini, Angela Hull, Luca Bertolini, Alan Reeve, Ivan Stanic, Klaus R. Kunzmann, Mervi Ilmonen, Jørgen Amdam, Garri Raagmaa, Alessandro Balducci, Louis Albrechts, Bohdan Tscherkes, Andreas Hofer, Bob Martens, Andrew Roberts, Gerlind Weber, Norio Okada, Wilfried Schönbäck), the task of each being to substantiate the thematic approach of the respective Track within his/her scope of discretion. We greatly appreciate the intensive cooperation and excellent support! We would also like to express our sincere thanks to the reviewing team for shepherding these abstracts to publication. The whole submission and reviewing procedure was supported by an electronic database. A simple version of the current AESOP2005 solution was made available in 2001 and went through a process of continuing improvements/adaptations. The solution was customized for the IAPS 2004 conference within the framework of the SciX project. The contributions to AESOP’05 Vienna (including full papers as far as available) are accessible via this system. The local organizing team would like to thank Tomo Cerovsek of the University of Ljubljana who developed and customized the system and Bob Martens of the Vienna University of Technology for their wonderful support.
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Program AESOP 2005 Annual Congress The Dream of a Greater Europe
(AESOP, 2005)
Since May 1, 2004, the European Union has ten new member states. While on first sight this date merely marked the enlargement of the territory of the European Union, it was a very special step - as some say - towards the "Europeanisation" of the European Union, which for the first time now includes countries which until 1989 belonged to the former "Eastern bloc" and which for the first time now embraces important parts of the Slavic-speaking world of Europe. The enlargement is a fascinating step in the slow process of this "peace project" of the unification of Europe, which not only creates cultural, economic, legal, social and democratic problems but under the "cohesion" principle of the European Union also poses a challenge to spatial planning in Europe. Vienna, traditionally a multicultural city, had been located on the "fringe of the western world" just 60 kilometres from the former "iron curtain" for more than 40 years, and all of a sudden found itself back at the centre of Europe. Vienna is a place where all the emotional, political and social consequences of the enlargement process of the European Union become acutely perceptible. The AESOP Congress will be dealing with the challenges this unification process poses for the planning profession in Europe. Is the European Union as the core of the European unification process becoming larger or greater? Is it a chance, a vision or a dream?
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18th Congress of the AESOP, Grenoble, France, 2004 ‘Metropolitan Planning and Environmental Issues’
(Routledge : Taylor and Francis Group, 2005) Silva, Elisabete A.
Grenoble-France was this year’s venue for the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 18th congress entitled ‘Metropolitan Planning and Environmental Issues’. A successful congress ensued (it contained 390 authors and 195 papers) taking place in a sustainable and charming city at the University Pierre Mende`s France, Grenoble and at the Institute of Urbanism in Grenoble. The local organizing committee Jan Tucny, Alain Motte, Gilles Novarina, Marc Bonneville, Yves Chalas, Jack Fontanel, and Bernard Pouyet; as well as the conference coordinator, the very promising young academic Ste´phane Sadoux, are to be congratulated for this year’s AESOP congress. The congress opening ceremony began with the welcome address by professors: Prof. Claude Courlet (President University Pierre Mende`s France), and Prof. Alessandro Balducci (President Association of European Planning Schools) Politecnico di Milano The keynote were addressed by: Prof. Gabriel Dupuy, University Paris Sorbonne with a presentation entitled ‘Cities and Planning in an era of Information Technologies and Communication’; Prof. Bernardo Secchi, Unversity of Venice presenting ‘The contemporary European city and its project’; Prof. Sir Peter Hall, University College of London with a presentation entitled ‘Policentropolis: in search of the European Holy Grail’; and Jean-Paul Blais, PUCA, Ministe`re de l’Equipment with a speech on ‘Current research issues in strategic and metropolitan planning: a French perspective’.