18th Congress of the AESOP, Grenoble, France, 2004 ‘Metropolitan Planning and Environmental Issues’
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2005
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Routledge : Taylor and Francis Group
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Grenoble-France was this year’s venue for the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 18th congress entitled ‘Metropolitan Planning and Environmental Issues’. A successful congress ensued (it contained 390 authors and 195 papers) taking place in a sustainable and charming city at the University Pierre Mende`s France, Grenoble and at the Institute of Urbanism in Grenoble. The local organizing committee Jan Tucny, Alain Motte, Gilles Novarina, Marc Bonneville, Yves Chalas, Jack Fontanel, and Bernard Pouyet; as well as the conference coordinator, the very promising young academic Ste´phane Sadoux, are to be congratulated for this year’s AESOP congress. The congress opening ceremony began with the welcome address by professors: Prof. Claude Courlet (President University Pierre Mende`s France), and Prof. Alessandro Balducci (President Association of European Planning Schools) Politecnico di Milano The keynote were addressed by: Prof. Gabriel Dupuy, University Paris Sorbonne with a presentation entitled ‘Cities and Planning in an era of Information Technologies and Communication’; Prof. Bernardo Secchi, Unversity of Venice presenting ‘The contemporary European city and its project’; Prof. Sir Peter Hall, University College of London with a presentation entitled ‘Policentropolis: in search of the European Holy Grail’; and Jean-Paul Blais, PUCA, Ministe`re de l’Equipment with a speech on ‘Current research issues in strategic and metropolitan planning: a French perspective’.
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European Planning Studies, 13(1)
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Silva, E. A. (2005). 18th congress of the AESOP, Grenoble, France, 2004 ‘Metropolitan planning and environmental issues.’ European Planning Studies, 13(1), 175–181. https://doi.org/10.1080/0965431042000312460