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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
(AESOP, 2016) Randolph, Rainer
We are publishing here the extended abstracts presented at the IV WPSC. Those which were discussed in the Track Sessions, as well as a considerable number of contributions in Plenary and Special Sessions and Roundtables. Farnak Miraftab´s Opening Keynote “Insurgency, planning and the prospect of a humane urbanism” was published (in portuguese) in ANPUR´s journal Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (Brazilian Journal of Urban and Regional Studies), v.18, n. 3 (2016), p. 363-377 (http://rbeur.anpur.org.br/rbeur/article/view/5499).
It is our conviction that these texts reflect an important panorama of ideas, thoughts, experiences and practices of the nearly 600 researchers, scientists, students and practioneers who attended the congress in Rio de Janeiro with the aim to have an unique opportunity to discuss the matter of planning with colleagues from all over the world.
As it puts our colleague Carlos Balsas in the conclusions he wrote about his experiences by participating the discussions at the congress: “Attention was directed at the need to look forward to more planning not less, more planning research not less, and more educational opportunities to strengthen urban and regional planning. … Alternative paradigms based on the radical deconstruction of prevailing knowledge sets and philosophies by some of those living in southern and northern hemispheres are making positive strides and can be confidently further developed”
Are Spatial Planning Schools across Europe Teaching Climate Change? A Survey of Curricula in the European Context
(SAGE, 2025) Johnson, Cassidy; Sliuzas, Richard; Galderisi, Adriana; Bradaschia , Massimiliano Granceri; Zwangsleitner, Daniel; Fernandez, Armando Caroca; Hasemi, Maliheh
It is important that the current and the next generations of planners are well equipped to contribute to the realization and upscaling of effective climate change action as a central element in any urban or spatial planning educational program. Framing the issue in the European context, and building on studies of other global regions, this research is the first European-wide scale survey to look at the extent to which European planning schools are addressing climate change in their curricula. The findings highlight the need for more comprehensive education on this critical issue and that further research and resources are needed to enhance climate resilience education in planning.
Procedural facade scenarios as a tool for modernism heritage protection. Case study of zus housing estate in Lodz, Poland
(AESOP, 2014) Zasina, Jakub
The paper presents an experimental method based both on procedural modelling and survey research for analysing modernism facade transformations. The method was designed as a tool for supporting decision making in the process of modernism architecture renovation. Cities in Europe face a question of modernism legacy protection. A key to this discussion are facades of buildings characterising the communal and the modular nature of modernism housing. The second life of these buildings is visible because changes in facades affect the quality of urban landscapes. New colours, materials and patterns appear and the old ones dissolve. The difference between an official good conservation practice and the deeds of the inhabitants shows many conflicts in renovating modernism housing estates. However, a new digital tool i.e. procedural modelling of architecture allows comparing these two visions with an original building appearance. The method described in the paper was tested in the case study of ZUS housing estate in Lodz, Poland. The data obtained from interviews conducted among stakeholders was collected and used for procedural visualisations of a chosen facade.
Program AESOP 2024 PhD Workshop Ahead of the game, Gredoble, July 3-6th
(AESOP, 2024)
In search of the caring city (Juliet Davies) From struggles to ageing well to the safety of children and young women to the loss of vital services in the context of conflict to the health issues brought about by pollution, to the detrimental impacts of urbanisation on the physical environment, cities are replete with issues that can be broadly conceptualised as issues of care. How, as urban scholars, do we identify these issues as such and research them, identifying pressing implications for urban planning and design? Conversely, how can we recognise places and practices that offer new, alternative and/or hopeful perspectives on the potential for care-full city-making, and on care itself? Drawing on her book ‘The Caring City,’ Professor Juliet Davis will address these questions, discussing in the process some of the challenges of working with care as a concept as with researching complex and often ambivalent contexts of urban care/ uncare. A planner walks into a bar (Ben Davy) «Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it» (E. B. White). Asking William of Baskerville (Il nome della rosa), the Joker (The Dark Knight) and Chat GPT for help, this keynote explores the role of humor for planners. Is planning „always Monday in an endless February“ (T. Swift)?
About the Grenoble PhD Workshop, July 3-6th 2024
(AESOP, 2024)
Thematic Workshops
1# The role of narrative in urban and planning research Room T204 Juliet Davis & Jean-Michel Roux
2# Supervising your supervisor: what can and should you expect from your supervisor? Room T205 Myriam Houssay & Renaud Le Goix
3# Alternative scientific writing: filmic methods Room T206 Noa Schumacher & Laure Brayer
4# Co-producing the research with non-academic actors Room T207 Adriana Diaconu & Frederic Santamaria