CC BY 4.0Sykes, Olivier2021-10-092021-10-0920212566-214710.24306/TrAESOP.2021.01.ehttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/893https://doi.org/10.24306/TrAESOP.2021.01.eTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Volume 5 / Issue 1 / June 2021; i-iiThis issue (5.1) of Transactions of AESOP brings together a selection of papers submitted to recent rounds of the Best AESOP Congress Paper Award and an invited paper by Tuna Taşan-Kok the Chair of the AESOP Congress Paper Award Committee. They provide original and insightful contributions addressing key themes in contemporary planning research and practice.enopenaccesseditoriali-ii