1991 ACSP/AESOP Joint Congress, Oxford, UK, 8-12 July

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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'.