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Item Open Access AI in Planning and Planning Education(AESOP, 2025)This webinar, jointly organised by the AESOP Excellence in Education Board and the AESOP Thematic Group on Planning Education, explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence on both planning practice and planning education. Experts from across Europe discuss current trends, opportunities, and challenges related to integrating AI tools and approaches into academic curricula and professional practice.Item Restricted AESOP’s Thematic Groups – Part 3: The Sustainable Food Planning Thematic Group(Taylor & Francis, 2014) van der Valk, Arnold; Viljoen, AndreThis article presents the foundation, mission, and achievements of AESOP’s Sustainable Food Planning Thematic Group. Established in 2009 by Kevin Morgan and Arnold van der Valk, the group brings together academics and practitioners to develop and promote sustainable food systems. Its activities include annual conferences, scholarly publications, and interdisciplinary collaboration across spatial planning, public health, agriculture, and environmental sciences. The group emphasizes urban and peri-urban agriculture and aims to foster young researchers. Key conferences have been held in Almere, Brighton, Cardiff, Berlin, Montpellier, and Leeuwarden. The group operates informally but is moving toward more structured coordination. Its future goals include educational outreach, PhD integration, and publishing a comprehensive handbook on sustainable food planning.Item Restricted AESOP’s Thematic Groups – Part 2: Complexity & Planning(Taylor & Francis, 2014) Rauws, WardThis article presents the goals, development, and scholarly output of AESOP’s Thematic Group on Complexity and Planning. Founded in 2005, the group brings together researchers interested in applying complexity theories to urban and regional planning. It explores concepts such as self-organization, non-linearity, and adaptive systems through regular meetings, conference tracks, and workshops. The group has produced two edited volumes and several special issues in peer-reviewed journals, addressing the impact of complexity on governance, simulation methods, and urban transformation. Events cover themes from digitalization to networked urban governance, and the group fosters both theoretical reflection and practical applications. With over 200 members, it provides a dynamic platform for both newcomers and experienced researchers engaged in complexity-oriented planning scholarship.Item Restricted AESOP’s Thematic Groups – Part 1: French and British Planning Studies Group(Taylor & Francis, 2014) Andres, LaurenThis article provides an in-depth overview of the AESOP Thematic Group on French and British Planning Studies, founded in 1998 to foster dialogue between the Anglophone and Francophone academic worlds. The group promotes comparative research on urban planning systems, cultures, and policies in France and the UK. It operates through biannual meetings alternating between both countries, engaging researchers and practitioners alike. The group's work has resulted in several major publications, including two books and special issues of Town Planning Review. Topics explored include metropolitan democracy, spatial planning systems, cultural policy in European cities, and the interrelationship between rail infrastructure and urban development. The article emphasizes the group’s informal yet intellectually rigorous approach and its commitment to intercultural dialogue and collaborative scholarship.Item Open Access Roundtable Inclusive and Cohesive Urban Development in European Cities European Reflections and Learnings for a Post-War Urban Planning Friday, October 18, 2024(AESOP, 2024) Yehorchenkova, Nataliia; Yehorchenkov, Oleksii; Purkarthofer, Eva; Humer, Alois; Finka, Maros; Jamečný, LíubomírColleagues at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, together with the AESOP Thematic Group on Transboundary Planning and Governance invited the AESOP community to an indeed remarkable one day Roundtable to collect European experiences and inspiration for a post-war urban planning in Ukraine. This day of Roundtable continued the engagement of the AESOP Thematic Group in voicing the various implications for Urban and Regional Planning in the face of the war in Ukraine. At earlier occasions organized by the TG, concerns of European macroregional and cross border cooperation were discussed in more detail (f.e. at the AESOP Annual Congress in Lodz 2022). At the Bratislava event, emphasis was put on listening to challenges and threats of urban and regional planning in Ukraine and to discussing learnings and options for a post-war era. The event was transdisciplinary and the list of speakers stretched from Ukrainian politicians and stakeholders to national and international researchers in the field. As a result, contributions were diverse and painted a varied picture of post-war planning. Some explicitly highlighted the situation in Ukrainian cities while others provided input and learning from post-war urban planning from other places and from historical experiences. The setting of the event helped to connect the practitioners’ and the researchers’ inputs by being a fully hybrid event, taking place at the premises of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava and being livestreamed via zoom to the online community of AESOP and particularly Ukraine. A total of approx. 60 participants joined the event, half of them onsite and half of them online.