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1. Planning Education in Europe: Challenges and Pathways into the Future
(AESOP, 2012) Kunzmann, Klaus R.
The lecture identified the challenges, planning schools are facing in the times of globalisation, market led and territorial development and information overload, and explored pathways into the future of planning education in Europe. Professor Klaus R. Kunzmann graduated from the School of Architecture of the Technische Universität München in 1967 and received a PhD from the Technische Universität Wien in 1971. Appointed as Professor by the School of Planning of the Universität Dortmund in 1974, he was Director of Research of the Institut für Raumplanung until 1993. From then onwards, and until his retirement in 2006, he held the personal Jean Monnet Chair of Spatial Planning in Europe. Klaus R. Kunzmann is a Honorary professor of Chung Hua University, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, a Honorary member of the RPTI, received a Honorary PhD from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1994, and taught as visiting professor at a number of universities in Europe, the US and in China. From 1987 to 1990 he was the first president of AESOP. Based on four decades of explorations into the field of spatial development of cites and regions, he is now living in Potsdam/Berlin, exploring the implications of China’s economic growth on urban regional development in Europe, and relentlessly writing on territorial planning in Europe, regional restructuring in the Ruhr, and on creative and knowledge city development. WATCH THE FULL LECTURE AT THE VIMEO VIDEO LINK BELOW
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10. Migrants and the cities
(AESOP, 2015) Singleton, Ann; Lütke Daldrup, Engelbert
The Lecture took place on 26th November 2015, hosted by Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin) and co-organised with Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS). The evening started with the welcome address by Angela Million, followed by the short introduction to the Lecture Series by Izabela Mironowicz, who is responsible for this flagship AESOP activity, established to mark our Silver Jubilee in 2012. We were happy to welcome at the lecture a group of students from the University of New South Wales in Sydney visiting Berlin with their professors.  Moderator, Felicitas Hillmann, introduced the speakers: Ann Singleton and Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, whose lectures you can watch watch here: https://player.vimeo.com/video/166542260
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11. New Urban Agenda: global perspective and local interpretation
(AESOP, 2017) Suri, Shipra Narang; Finka, Maroš
This is the 11th event in the Lecture Series by well-known planners, policy-makers and other ‘urban thinkers’, which is being organised by AESOP, previously in cooperation with IFHP in the framework of respectively the Silver Jubilee (2012) and Centenary (2013) and in 2014 continued in cooperation with European Regional Science Association (ERSA). Since 2016 Lecture Series remains one of the AESOP flagship projects. The lecturers have been asked to present their ideas on ‘new vision’ for planning and territorial development. The lectures will be rounded off with a discussion with the audience. Dr. Shipra Narang Suri, Vice-President of the General Assembly of Partners, a platform established to bring stakeholder voices to Habitat III and in the drafting of the New Urban Agenda, will lecture about Habitat III process and Quito Declaration on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements for All. Professor Maroš Finka, one of leading academics in CEE countries in the field of spatial planning, member of German Academy for Spatial Research and Planning and advisor to the Slovak government, involved also in the Habitat III process as an expert will elaborate -in the context of the EU and UN Urban Agenda(s)- the topic of polycentric development as the basis for equal access to quality of life, which was an important issue during Slovak Presidency of the UE.
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12. The Future of the European City in the Global Perspective
(AESOP, 2017) Mouilin, Emmanuel; Kettner, Tobias
On behalf of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and the Faculty of Spatial Planning Technische Universität Dortmund, we would like to invite you to a lecture by Emmanuel MOULIN and Tobias KETTNER,The Future of the European City in the Global Perspective, which will take place at the Dortmunder U, at 16:00, on Friday, 20th October 2017, in Dortmund. This is the twelfth event in the Lecture Series by well-known planners, policy-makers and other ‘urban thinkers’, which has been initiated by AESOP and IFHP in the framework of respectively the Silver Jubilee (2012) and Centenary (2013). The lecturers have been asked to present their ideas on ‘new vision’ for planning and territorial development. The lecture will be rounded off with a question and answer discussion with the audience. This 12th Lecture is very special both for AESOP and Faculty of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund. We would like to celebrate in this way Diamond Jubilee of Klaus R. Kunzmann, funding father of AESOP, who held the Jean Monnet Chair for European Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund since 1994 and who was the first speaker at the Lecture Series. Emmanuel MOULIN is a Head of the URBACT Secretariat, Tobias KETTNER is an Outreach and Liaison Officer in Europe, Habitat III Secretariat, UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development.
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13. New Frontiers for Spatial Planning in Times of Uncertainty: Dealing with Climate Change and Environmental Risks
(AESOP, 2018) Davoudi, Simin
On the 1st of November 2018, the 13th AESOP Lecture Series was held in Tirana, Albania. The event was co-organized by POLIS University and AESOP. The event was held at Tirana International Hotel between 17:00-20:00. The topic of the Lecture Series was on New Frontiers for Spatial Planning in Times of Uncertainty: Dealing with Climate Change and Environmental Risks which is a highly interesting and relevant topic for the planning community.The lecture series was chaired by Ledio Allkja and included three presentations/lectures from Prof. Besnik Aliaj (Rector of POLIS University), Prof Simin Davoudi (Newcastle University) and Dr. Rudina Toto (POLIS University). In the event there were around 150 participants composed of students of planning, environmental studies and architecture, academic staff from POLIS University and other universities in Albania, representatives of local and central planning authorities as well as participants from other institutions working in planning and environment in Albania. A small reception was held before the event during the registration and associated with coffee and tea. The lecture series started with a short introduction by Ledio Allkja, and then afterwards Prof Paulo Pinho (AESOP Secretary General) continued with a short introduction of AESOP, its role and activities and the introduction for the lecture series. Following that, Prof Besnik Aliaj, held a presentation focusing on the paramount challenge of climate change as well as the evolution of planning in Albania. This presentation helped in setting the context for the lecture series for the audience. The lecture had a chronological evolution of Albania with a special focus on spatial development and planning. Watch the video on the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqKkIgmxN4c
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14. Lessons from Paradise
(AESOP, 2019) Needham, Barrie; Van Leeuwen, Eveline
Hosted by Wageningen University 07 October 2019 The 14th Lecture Series took place at Wageningen University, Netherlands and featured Prof. Barrie Needham Paradise Lost! Can it be regained. The Lecture was introduced by Thomas Hartmann and Wim Van Der Knaap and also included a presentation from Eveline Van Leeuwen The fairphone approach dealing with spatial and temporal dynamic Video available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMz8N_63OzM&t=5s
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15. Manuel Aalbers and Iván Tosics: From the financialization of the city to planning for efficient housing
(AESOP, 2019) Aalbers, Manuel; Tosics, Iván
The 15th Lecture Series took place at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal and featured two talks by Manuel Aalbers and Iván Tosics. The Lecture was organised in collaboration with the final conference of project exPERts: Making Sense of Planning Expertise (coordinated by Marco Alelgra; https://expertsproject.org/). The Lecture was chaired by Marco Allegra and Simone Tulumello and introduced by an AESOP ExCo representative. In the first talk, Manuel Aalbers argued that a new form of urban development is emerging in which processes of financialization play a key role, and focus on the implications for the emerging, global housing crises. In the second talk, Iván Tosics reflected on how planning can contribute to efficient and inclusive housing, and the role of the various actors at stake. Video available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yIwgdoyPeU&t=6s
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16. Rethinking Planning in a More-than-human World
(AESOP, 2019) Hillier, Jean
Spatial planning is not external to the eco-social realities which co-produce the Anthropocene. I am concerned with spatial planning, its multispecies entanglements and the production of novel ecosystems, including those of damaged landscapes. Many planning systems reinforce hyper-separated categories of ‘nature’ and ‘culture’, reflected in the separation between landuse planning and environmental conservation planning. The ‘unreflected imposition of human primacy upon the desires and habits of other beings’ (Metzger, 2014: 210) and resulting asymmetric ‘negotiations’ between human planners and nonhuman others, have contributed to often-catastrophic changes across the globe. I argue that planning academics and practitioners should think carefully and critically about who speaks for (and with) the nonhuman in place making. I introduce the concept of ‘more-than-human’, as developed in geography and the environmental humanities, to explore new possibilities for productively rethinking the ontological exceptionalism of humans in planning theory and practice. I argue the need to develop inclusive, ethical relationships that can nurture possibilities for multispecies flourishing in diverse urban futures: a co-adaptive, more-than-human multispecies entanglement.
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17. Cities on earth: the politics and design of spatial development face to the new climate regime
(AESOP, 2019) Latour, Bruno; Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia; Beauregard, Robert; Rydin, Yvonne
Due to strike action in France this Lecture Series has been cancelled.
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18. How public norms help to cope with uncertainty in complex practices of planning
(AESOP, 2021) Salet, Willem
Planning has become more fallible in the transitional stage of post-modernity. Facing errors and increasing uncertainties does not give an alibi to abandon purposive planning strategies. The public would not accept a flaw of public action when social problems increase. Rather, it is an incentive to make planning strategies more resilient and corrective. Planning always has been tentative and adventurous rather than relying on given certainties. When the problems of time become more intractable, more agility of pragmatism is in the line of expectation. However, what if the purposes and solutions become part of the problem instead of bringing relief? Today, planning and public action are challenged in depth. In his main work Public Norms and Aspirations (2018) Willem Salet argues that improving on pragmatic agility is a permanent drive for planning, it is necessary and worthwhile but not adequate and might even become a problem in itself when taken as the sole point of orientation. The lone preoccupation with problem solving and targeting purposive aspirations has become one of the main concerns of planning practices today. It has become matter of urgency to re-appreciate the role and the meaning of public norms in planning and public action. Public norms differ strongly of goal-specific or problem-solving aspirations; they are normative conditions to social interaction rather than performing purposive action and solving problems. They provide a normative antenna of the public in its permanent search to value 'what one might expect from another' providing reliability in uncertain situations, justifying what is 'appropriate' to do rather than performing outcome oriented planning processes. Both processes of social normalisation and purposive strategies of problem solving are needed in planning: it is in their dialectic interaction that the answers must be found for the problems of planning in our time. However, the normative dimension of planning is deeply neglected today in the prevailing managerial practices of planning and public action (and even in law and legislation). As a result, the purposive and problem solving strategies themselves have become nomadic and fragile. Willem Salet will discuss the contemporary dilemmas of planning by confronting the prevailing approaches of urban and regional planning with challenges of public norms and social normalisation. He will discuss major topical issues of public planning practices in city-regions and raise attention to the normative dilemma's with regard to recent climate policies; the normative dilemma's regarding housing policies for low- and middle-income groups in European city-regions; the normative dilemma's of mobility planning, facing particularly challenges of multimodal infrastructures; and the normative conditions of landscape and heritage to purposive processes of urban development. Video available at: https://youtu.be/u8QHC_Nuzis
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19. Innovative property for innovative land policy and urban design
(AESOP, 2023) Davy, Ben
Ben Davy is a former Chair of Land Policy, Land Management, and Municipal Geoinformation at the School of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Johannesburg. Ben was President of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) (2018—2020) and of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR). His current research concerns land use ethics and South African land reforms. The event begins with a welcome speech by Prof. Christa Reicher and a short speech by Prof. Maria Håkansson, the AESOP‘s Vice President and Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. WATCH THE FULL LECTURE AT THE VIMEO VIDEO LINK BELOW
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2. Twentieth Century Foundations of European Planning
(AESOP, 2012) Faludi, Andreas
In any European territorial policy, the city will play a central role. The interconnectivity of cities is after all a major dimension of territorial cohesion. The European Commission has recently brought out a report ‘Cities of Tomorrow’ which looks at the importance of cities for the territorial, economic, social and environmental future of our continent. To complement Prof. Faludi's lecture, a joint workshop was organized with the participation of representatives of the European Commission's DG for Regional Policy and other invited experts to initiate a dialogue on the issues raised in this report. It dealt with the following three questions: What is the European model of the city? What instruments are available to ensure a more sustainable development for European cities? What is the perspective for possible policy orientations in the new phase of EU research and structural policies 2014-2020? What should EU urban policy focus on; what should it avoid? WATCH THE FULL LECTURE AT THE VIMEO VIDEO LINK BELOW
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20. Planning, identity and violent conflict: the spatial making of apartheid in Israel/Palestine
(AESOP, 2024) Yiftachel, Oren
The talk addressed the current state of affairs of the Israeli/Palestinian relations and the war in Gaza – a stark reminder of the continued existence of a deep, entrenched conflict around issues of land, human rights, and collective identities in Israel/Palestine. Professor Yiftachel then moved to examine the role of planning and territorial development policies in the trajectory of the conflict, showing how Israeli governments have tapped into the potential of planning in order to advance a political agenda based on ethnonational preference; and how this trajectory has brought about a full-fledged system of control over the disenfranchised Arab population. In his conclusive remarks, Professor Yiftachel has highlighted the positive potential of planning practices in redressing social and political injustices. WATCH THE FULL LECTURE AT THE VIMEO VIDEO LINK BELOW
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21. Healthier Cities, Healthier People – Can we re-unite urban planning practice with epidemiological research to foster active longevity by design?
(AESOP, 2024) Webster, Christopher
The lecture briefly recounted important historical links between public health and planning legislation and the weakening of this close association in the post WWII ‘antibiotic’ era. With now more than half of the world’s population living in urbanized settings, there is a strong case to be made to pay closer attention to urban form and conditions such as noise, green space or walkability as these impact risk levels of both chronic and infectious diseases. Professor Webster made a strong case for the disciplines of health and planning to be ‘remarried’ based on an impressive range of research case studies providing evidence that building shapes and urban morphology can significantly impact health outcomes such as obesity or respiratory illnesses alongside other lifestyle factors (e.g. smoking). The second session of the 2024 AESOP Lecture Series took place at the University of Birmingham UK. FIND THE VIDEO IN THE VIMEO LINK BELOW
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3. Space and Place as Integrating Factors in Policy-Making: New Models of Territorial Governance in Europe
(AESOP, 2012) Hübner, Danuta
This was the third event in the Lecture Series by well-known planners, policy-makers and other ‘urban thinkers’, which is being organised by AESOP and IFHP in the framework of respectively the Silver Jubilee (2012) and Centenary (2013). The lecturers have been asked to present their ideas on ‘new vision’ for planning and territorial development. The lecture will be rounded off with a question and answer discussion with the audience. Professor Danuta Hübner, as an academic, politician, Parliamentarian and former European Commissioner for Regional Development, has a broad knowledge and experience in the field of territorial development. She presened her vision of the possible future of territorial governance at different spatial scales. WATCH THE FULL LECTURE AT THE VIMEO VIDEO LINK BELOW
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4. Squaring the Circle: How to Reconcile Apparently Impossible Contradictions in Contemporary Urban Policy
(AESOP, 2013) Hall, Peter
This was the fourth event in the Lecture Series by well-known planners, policy-makers and other ‘urban thinkers’, which is being organised by AESOP and IFHP in the framework of respectively the Silver Jubilee (2012) and Centenary (2013). The lecturers have been asked to present their ideas on ‘new vision’ for planning and territorial development. The lecture will be rounded off with a question and answer discussion with the audience. Professor Sir Peter Hall is a leading British academic, author, advisor and consultant on a whole range of urban development and planning issues and Chair of Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, UCL,Director of the Institute of Community Studiesand President of the TCPA. WATCH THE FULL LECTURE AT THE VIMEO VIDEO LINK BELOW
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5. The Future is Not What It Used to Be Complexity, Cognition and the City – Implication to Planning
(AESOP, 2013) Portugali, Juval
This is the fifth event in the Lecture Series by well-known planners, policy-makers and other ‘urban thinkers’, which is being organised by AESOP and IFHP in the framework of respectively the Silver Jubilee (2012) and Centenary (2013). The lecturers have been asked to present their ideas on ‘new vision’ for planning and territorial development. The lecture will be rounded off with a question and answer discussion with the audience. Professor Juval Portugali, currently a visiting Professor at the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture TU Delft, is Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Geography and the Human Environment Tel Aviv University. He is the Head of the Environmental Simulation Laboratory (ESLab) and of the Environment, Society and Planning Graduate Program of Tel Aviv University. His research integrates complexity and self-organization theories, environmental-spatial cognition, urban dynamics and planning in modern and ancient periods.
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6. A Christmas Carol: the Ghosts of Planning, Past, Present and Future
(AESOP, 2013) Hague, Cliff
On behalf of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) we would like to invite you to a lecture by Professor Cliff Hague A Christmas Carol: the Ghosts of Planning, Past, Present and Future 13th December 2013, 10:30 University of Latvia, Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, Alberta iela 10, Room 313, Riga AESOP and IFHP wish to express word of gratitude to the co-organizer of the Lecture - University of Latvia and Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia.
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7. Evolution of Planning Thought Lecture Series
(AESOP, 2014) Hall, Peter; Faludi, Andreas; Albrechts, Louis; Innes, Judith; Hoch, Charles; Marcuse, Peter; Needham, Barrie; Hague, Cliff; Batty, Michael; Alterman, Rachelle; Friedmann, John; Healey, Patsy; Schimak, Gerhard; Kunzmann, Klaus; Forester, John
The Vienna University of Technology (Austria) invites you to participate in the Evolution of Planning Thought Lecture Series, which takes place as part of the TU Wien 200 years anniversary celebrations in May 2014. Lecture 1: Monday 19.May.2014, 17.00-21.30, with Peter Hall, Andreas Faludi, Louis Albrechts, Judith Innes and Charles Hoch Lecture 2: Wednesday 21.May.2014, 17.00-21.30, with Peter Marcuse, Barrie Needham, Cliff Hague, Michael Batty and Rachelle Alterman Lecture 3: Friday 23.May.2014, 17.00-21.30, with John Friedmann, Patsy Healey, Gerhard Schimak, Klaus Kunzmann and John Forester This Lecture Series unpacks how planners developed theories and conceptual tools, how these shaped the development of practice, how planners organised themselves at an international and global scale, and the conceptual, institutional and practical lacuna that remain to be filled. Every lecture starts from a personal perspective to tell a much broader story about the Evolution of Planning Thought. The subsequent podium discussion provides a unique space to reflect on where we are as planners, how we have got there and where we are going as a community into the future. Each lecture concludes with a social gathering, allowing less formal discussions with highly respected planners of the first generation.
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8. (Re)Discovering Modernity in Town Planning;... the Never Ending Story?
(AESOP, 2014) Gzell, Sławomir; Batey, Peter
The Lecture - Dialog took place on 7th November 2014 at Waraaw University of Technology. The event started with opening speech of Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, professor Stefan Wrona. Then professor Sławomir Gzell presented his lecture. You can watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/112160669 Then professor Peter Batey presented his lecture, which you can watch here: https://vimeo.com/112794704 Grzegorz A. Buczek was moderating the discussion which followed the lectures. You can watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/112160668 AESOP and ERSA wish to express word of gratitude to the co-organizers of the 8th Lecture – Warsaw University of Technology and Faculty of Architecture Warsaw University of Technology. AESOP and ERSA Community wish to congratulate Warsaw University of Technology on its Centenary. AESOP-ERSA Lecture Series was honoured being able to launch Centenary Celebrations at the Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology. YOU CAN WATCH THE LECTURE AT THE LINK BELOW