2012 Planning to Achieve/Planning to Avoid, Ankara, Turkey, 11-15 July

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    AESOP Silver Jubilee Congress in Ankara: First Step Towards AESOP's Golden Jubilee
    (Taylor & Francis, 2012) Mironowicz, Izabela
    This report presents an overview of the AESOP Silver Jubilee Congress held in Ankara, Turkey, from 11–15 July 2012. As the largest AESOP event to date, it drew over 1000 abstract submissions from 63 countries, illustrating the vitality and diversity of the European planning academic community. The article provides detailed statistics on abstract submissions, acceptance rates, track popularity, and final program composition. It highlights trends such as the increasing engagement of students, high participation from AESOP member institutions, and rising international interest. The Congress also featured strong involvement in the AESOP–IFHP Lecture Series and set the stage for future events, including the AESOP–ACSP Joint Congress. The report positions the Ankara Congress as a milestone on the path toward AESOP’s Golden Jubilee, reflecting growth, inclusivity, and academic excellence.
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    AESOP Silver Jubilee: AESOP Presidents Reflect on the Future of Planning and AESOP
    (Taylor & Francis, 2012) Mironowicz, Izabela
    This report presents highlights from a special session held during the AESOP Silver Jubilee Congress in Ankara (14 July 2012), where past AESOP Presidents and founding members shared reflections on the future of planning and AESOP. Eleven presidents and honorary member Andreas Faludi offered diverse perspectives on the evolving role of planning amid globalization, climate change, economic crises, and technological transformation. Contributions emphasized the need for planning to be socially just, adaptive, participatory, and interdisciplinary. They called for planning education to prepare students to think critically, act ethically, and engage meaningfully in shaping future urban and regional environments. The session underscored AESOP’s role as a platform for dialogue and innovation, and concluded with a ceremonial handover to the new President, Gert de Roo.
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    Planning to achieve/Planning to avoid: The 26th AESOP Congress, Ankara, Turkey, 11-15 July 2012
    (Liverpool University Press, 2012) Peel, Deborah
    The 26th annual Congress of the Association of European Planning Schools (AESOP), with its umbrella motto – ‘Planning to achieve/Planning to avoid’ – took place from 11 to 15 July in the Turkish capital city, Ankara. The event was hosted by the Middle East Technical University (METU). Given METU’s pioneering role in contributing to higher education across Turkey and Middle Eastern countries, its commitment to natural and social sciences and its innovative approaches to teaching and learning, this proved an exciting venue for celebrating the Association’s Silver Jubilee. Delegates were welcomed by the Vice Principal and Mayor – both planning alumni of METU and both emphasising the living geography afforded by the campus and the intellectual and professional contributions of METU planning graduates. Indeed, current students were much appreciated by congress delegates – not least because of their bright yellow T-shirts saying, simply, ‘Ask Me’. Established in 1956, METU’s extensive campus now provides a vital green area for the city of Ankara. A significant ‘greening-the-campus’, initiated in 1958, has effectively transformed 4500 ha of barren land into a city forest, incorporating 500 ha of lakes and ponds, that makes the City less dry and less polluted and offers an important recreational facility for students and visitors alike. Professor Taner Oc, an METU alumnus, recalled with affection – and pride – the celebration and festivity involved in this (still continuing) student tree-planting tradition. A commitment to scientific enquiry and maintaining quality of life are more than symbolically rooted in a campus where public art commemorates notable thinkers and where cherry trees blossom. In an entertaining plenary address by Professor Baykan Günay on the spatial history of Ankara, we learned how, inspired by METU’s contribution to greening the city, the region launched its own re-afforestation programme, echoing a Geddesian motif: ‘by leaves we live’. It is not surprising that the very capable 2012 AESOP Local Organising Committee at METU initiated the new Greening Policy for AESOP activities, bringing waste avoidance and planned resource efficiency to the heart of future AESOP congresses.