2012 - AESOP Lecture Series 1, 2 and 3
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Item Restricted AESOP Generating Discussion on New Models of Territorial Governance in Europe: Report on Professor Danuta Hübner’s AESOP–IFHP Lecture(Taylor & Francis, 2013) Mironowicz, IzabelaThis report summarizes the third lecture in the AESOP–IFHP Lecture Series, delivered by Professor Danuta Hübner in Brussels on 5 October 2012. The lecture, titled “Space and Place as Integrating Factors in Policy-Making,” focused on the evolution of territorial cohesion in EU policy. Professor Hübner argued that effective governance in Europe increasingly requires territorial sensitivity, integrated approaches, and multilevel cooperation. She discussed the need to strengthen functional areas, enhance the role of cities, and align regional development strategies across administrative and sectoral boundaries. The report emphasizes that territorial cohesion is not yet formally defined, but widely understood as a shared European objective. New tools such as Integrated Territorial Investments (ITIs) and Community-led Local Development (CLLD) were highlighted as pathways toward more inclusive and efficient governance. The article reflects on the broader shift in EU governance from rigid structures toward flexible, place-based strategies that involve local actors in designing and implementing territorial policy.Item Open Access Celebration of AESOP Birthday: Launch of AESOP–IFHP Lecture Series(Taylor and Francis, 2012) Mironowicz, IzabelaThis article documents the celebration of AESOP’s 25th anniversary held at Schloss Cappenberg, the birthplace of the association. The event brought together former and current AESOP Presidents and Secretaries General, as well as representatives of major European planning organizations. The main highlight of the gathering was the launch of the AESOP–IFHP Lecture Series, a joint initiative within the broader “Decade of Planning” framework. The article includes reflections on planning education by Klaus R. Kunzmann, who identified key challenges and scenarios for the future of planning in Europe. The event reaffirmed AESOP's commitment to collaborative, transnational planning education and professional dialogue.Item Open Access 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 BELOWItem Open Access 2. Twentieth Century Foundations of European Planning(AESOP, 2012) Faludi, AndreasIn 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 BELOWItem Open Access 3. Space and Place as Integrating Factors in Policy-Making: New Models of Territorial Governance in Europe(AESOP, 2012) Hübner, DanutaThis 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