AESOP Newsletter 3/2013 - March 18

Published at: 18 March 2013

News

8 February 2013 : AESOP-IFHP Lecture Series, Lecture 5 : Juval Portugali, The Future is Not What It Used to Be: Complexity, Cognition and the City 5 April 2013, Amsterdam

On behalf of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) we would like to invite you to a lecture by

Professor Juval Portugali

The Future is Not What It Used to Be
Complexity, Cognition and the City – Implication to Planning

which will take place at University of Amsterdam

at 13:00 on Friday 5th April 2013

Consult our programme and register here.

AESOP-IFHP Lecture Series, Lecture 5 : Juval Portugali, The Future is Not What It Used to Be: Complexity, Cognition and the City  5 April 2013, Amsterdam

6 February 2013 : AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting, 12-14 April 2013, Gdansk

ONLY 3 WEEKS LEFT TO AESOP HEADS OF SCHOOLS MEETING. PLEASE REGISTER NOW.

SMART TEACHING: Innovative Steps Towards 21st Century Spatial Developments

AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting is an annual forum for planning education. We are happy to welcome delegates from our member schools, whether they are heads of the schools or any key persons designated by the schools, to discuss main problems and challenges for planning education across Europe. We would be delighted if delegates from the schools which are not AESOP members yet joined us and shared their experience and knowledge.

Please check the latest news & programme and register  here.
Spekers:
Dr Jan Olbrycht (Member of European Parliament, President of URBAN Intergroup)
and
Prof. Milica Bajic Brkovic (University of Belgrade), Prof. Anna Geppert (University Paris IV Sorbonne),

Prof. Andreas Voigt (TU Vienna)


7 October 2012 : Call for hosting AESOP Congress in 2015

Call for hosting AESOP Congress in 2015

The call for hosting the 29th AESOP Congress which will take place in 2015 is now open. We encourage all institutional AESOP Members to apply.

The deadline for the submission of the bids is 31st March 2013.

17 March 2013 : CALL FOR AESOP PRESIDENT

The new AESOP President has to be elected in July 2013.

Call for the position of AESOP President is open.

The mandatory period of the new President will start in July 2014 and will finish in July 2016. From July 2013 to July 2014 and from July 2016 to July 2017 the elected President will be representing AESOP as the Vice President.

17 March 2013 : CALL FOR AESOP TREASURER

The new AESOP Treasurer has to be elected in July 2013.

Call for the position of AESOP Treasurer is open.

The mandatory period of the new Treasurer will start in July 2013 and will finish in July 2017.

26 February 2013 : New AESOP Officials

AESOP Council of Representatives has approved new Officials:

Professor Lia Maldonado Teles de Vasconcelos (University New Lisbon) is a new chair of the AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award Committee.

Professor Karina Pallagst (University of Kaiserlautern) is a new chair of the AESOP Best Published Paper Award Committee.

26 February 2013 : AESOP - ECTP-CEU - IFHP - ISOCARP European Urban Summer School

AESOP Council of Representatives has approved hosts for AESOP - ECTP-CEU - IFHP - ISOCARP European Urban Summer Schools.

The host for EUSS 2013 is San Pablo CEU University in Madrid

The host for EUSS 2014 is University of Tours.

European Urban Summer School is our joint project within the framework of Decade of Planning.

30 November 2012 : Call for AESOP financial auditors

Call for AESOP auditors

AESOP is looking for candidates willing to serve as AESOP auditors. According to the AESOP Charter (Art. 27c) these persons will be responsible for monitoring and examine the AESOP annual financial statements. Audiors will be AESOP Officials (Art. 16d) and therefore have to be confirmed by the Council of Representatives. AESOP will need 2 auditors.

Application deadline: March 30th 2013

The auditors have to be academics from AESOP member institutions. Thess persons have to be fluent in English and also have to be familiar with the profile of the organization and its performance. We would appreciate cooperation skills and experience in running or supervising the financial matters of a NGO. Involvement in AESOP acitivities will be of additional advantage.

The procedure of election includes the selection of the candidates made by the Executive Committee and the confirmation by the Council of Representatives.

Interested individuals should apply by sending a CV and a motivation letter to the Secretary General (email: secretariat@aesop-plannning.eu).

19 October 2012 : Call for AESOP GPEAN Representative

We are looking for candidates willing to serve as AESOP’s representative in GPEAN (Global Planning Education Association Network), a network of nine planning schools associations globally.

Application deadline: 15 March 2013



Awards

3 March 2013 : 2013 AESOP PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING

2013 AESOP PRIZE FOR

EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING

Responses to global changes: new approaches to planning education

APPLICATION FOR THE PRIZE IS OPEN.


Members: News

23 February 2013 : METREX Spring Conference 24-26 April 2013

METREX invites AESOP colleagues to the Glasgow Spring Conference, from 24-26 April 2013, on the theme of "The Metropolitan Dimension - The state of the Union".

METREX, the Network of Metropolitan Regions and Areas, was founded at the Glasgow Metropolitan Regions Conference in 1996.  It has now grown to include over 50 of Europe's major city-regions.

23 February 2013 : ERSA Summer School 2013

Are you a PhD Student or a Junior  Research willing to receive advanced knowledge in
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Regions of Varying...

23 February 2013 : Call for Proposals for Short-term Research Visits

Proposals are invited from researchers for short-term investigative visits to an institution in another member state. The proposal will be to...

12 February 2013 : 53rd ERSA Congress

53rd ERSA Congress: Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the World Economy

27-31 August 2013
Palermo, Italy

If you have not done it yet and wish to make a submission, let us please remind you that the Call for abstracts/papers is open until the 1st March 2013.
ERSA Congress is a unique international platform for Regional Science scientists. Over 800 researchers,  from senior scientists to PhD students, are expected to gather and make presentations in various fields of regional science.   You want to SHARE, you want to NETWORK, you are looking for new STIMULATION and you want to ENRICH your knowledge, then Palermo is the place to be from 27-31 August 2013!
Don't miss this chance! Be part of ERSA Congress Programme 2013!

53rd ERSA Congress

25 January 2013 : Training material on energy in urban planning

Recently published training material now available on UP-RES project web site!

Urban and regional planner is the first in the row to choose...

18 January 2013 : Last Call for Abstracts for the International Conference "Changing Cities: Spatial, morphological, formal & socio-economic dimensions”, Skiathos island, Greece, 18-21 June 2013

We have the pleasure to invite you to the International Conference on “Changing Cities: Spatial, morphological, formal & socio-economic...

Last Call for Abstracts for the International Conference

Members: Activities

11 March 2013 : Urbego Workshop: Urban frontiers: Exploring the edges of Paris

From 22-25 april, leading up to the International Symposium “Garden Cities, an ideal to be pursued” the 3rd Urbego workshop aimed at young...

Urbego Workshop: Urban frontiers: Exploring the edges of Paris

19 February 2013 : University of Aveiro, Portugal: International Conference ‘Europe 2020: rhetoric, discourse, policy and practice’

CALL FOR PAPERS: 31ST MARCH 2013

The University of Aveiro (Portugal), through its Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences...

University of Aveiro, Portugal: International Conference ‘Europe 2020: rhetoric, discourse, policy and practice’

27 January 2013 : Call for papers – 11th meeting: Self-organization and spatial planning: in-depth analysis

Please find attached the call for papers for the 11th meeting AESOP's thematic group on Complexity & Planning. This meeting will be centered around the concept of self-organization, being a follow-up on the 9th meeting in Istanbul in 2011.

We hope many of you will attend this upcoming meeting, which is hosted by the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

The meeting will be held on the 2nd and 3rd of May 2013,


Members: Job Postings

13 March 2013 : Full Professor Green Urban Planning and Design

The full professor (1.0 / 0.8 fte) will be embedded into the Landscape Architecture (LAR) chair group at the overarching Environmental Systems...

10 March 2013 : Professor/associate professor in land use planning

The position covers the field of land use planning and resource management in rural and semi-urban areas.

The position is at the Norwegian Life...

26 February 2013 : Post doctoral research fellow - University College Dublin

Post doctoral research fellow – 12-month post
School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin

A 12-month...

21 February 2013 : University Lecturer in Land Economy - University of Cambridge

University Lectureship in Land Economy

Applications are invited for a University Lectureship in Land Economy within the Department of Land...


Members: Journals

8 March 2013 : CALL FOR PAPER " Urban Planning and Multicultural Cities"

CALL FOR PAPER " Urban Planning and Multicultural Cities"
SSIIM Unesco Chair invites contributions for a special issue of the Journal Archivio di...

4 March 2013 : Call for Papers - Urban Design and Planning

Call for Papers “Urban Design and Planning”
Urban Design and Planning publishes 5000 word refereed papers and short articles addressing the...

21 February 2013 : Published: Urban Design and Planning - Special Issue on Geographi Information and ICT

Published in Journal "Urban Design and Planning" - Special Issue on Geographic Information and ICT

The special issue on "Geographic Information...

8 February 2013 : New Issue - International Journal of E-Planning Research

New Issue - International Journal of E-Planning Research, Vol. 1 (4) 2012...

New Issue - International Journal of E-Planning Research

Members: Educational news

10 March 2013 : Transformation of post-industrial regions

Transformation of post-industrial regions

New offer in the Master Course Spatial Planning at the Dortmund School of Planning

The Dortmund...

14 January 2013 : Ph.D. Course Planning transitions in an urban context 3-4 October 2013 Aalborg University – Aalborg

Ph.D. Course
Planning transitions in an urban context
3-4 October 2013
Aalborg University – Aalborg


Members: Books

9 January 2013 : Planning and Place in the City Mapping Place Identity

Planning and Place in the City
Mapping Place Identity

Marichela Sepe

Published by Routledge

January 2013 | 352pp | Hb: 978-0-415-66475-2;...


Members: Blog posts

27 February 2013 : Announcement 5th AESOP Conference on Sustainable Food Planning

5th AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference October 28 and 29 in Montpellier France.

Announcement 5th AESOP Conference on Sustainable Food Planning

5 February 2013 : Jerry Kaufman (1933-2013)

Prof. Jerry Kaufman the pioneer of community food planning studies in North America deceased.

Jerry Kaufman (1933-2013)

27 January 2013 : Call for papers – 11th meeting: Self-organization and spatial planning: in-depth analysis

Please find attached the call for papers for the 11th meeting AESOP's thematic group on Complexity & Planning. This meeting will be centered around the concept of self-organization, being a follow-up on the 9th meeting in Istanbul in 2011.

We hope many of you will attend this upcoming meeting, which is hosted by the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

The meeting will be held on the 2nd and 3rd of May 2013

10 January 2013 : 11th meeting: Self-organization and spatial planning: in-depth analysis

Please find attached the call for papers for the 11th meeting AESOP's thematic group on Complexity & Planning. This meeting will be centered around the concept of self-organization, being a follow-up on the 9th meeting in Istanbul in 2011.

We hope many of you will attend this upcoming meeting, which is hosted by the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

The meeting will be held on the 2nd and 3rd of May 2013

Update: Prof. Francis Heylighen will give a key note speech.

9 January 2013 : 4th Sustainable Food Planning Conference

November 1st - 3rd 2012 the 4th AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference in Berlin attracted 80 participants from 15 countries.

4th Sustainable Food Planning Conference

6 January 2013 : Call for papers

RC 21 Conference Berlin, 29-31 August 2013

Session 27: Contentious movements, conflict and agonistic pluralism in urban development: transformative trajectories and potentials

Session organizer: Enrico Gualini, TU Berlin – Berlin University of Technology