20 min. read Introduction Cities in diverse contexts experience increasing civil society engagement through neighbourhood-scale, informal and citizen-based interventions. Local … More
Category: Beyond planning
VOTING STARTED: AESOP YA Coordination Team 2022-24
1 min. read The voting platform for the following AESOP Young Academics Network Coordination Team members is now open. We … More
5th World Planning Schools Conference – Opportunities for Planning Students
2 min. read The 5th World Planning Schools Conference and the 16th Asian Planning Schools Association Congress WPSC-APSA 2022 are … More
Shrinking Villages jeopardizing Himalayan future
6 min. read The recently released IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2022 (AR6) echoes the growing concern of risks … More
Operationalizing the ‘Just City’ – Annual conference of the AESOP Thematic Group of Ethics, Values and Planning.
1 min. Read. Hello AESOP Young Academics. Happy new year! We start this year 2022 by reporting on the annual … More
Centering a critical urban geography of disaster-prone areas
8 min. read Natural disasters are often identified in the parlance as ‘acts of God’, and their human victims, as … More
PlaNext-AESOP Call for papers: Special issue Cities in the face of crises: Planning & designing future living environments
5 min. read In our interest for this call to reach further and particularly to Young Academics, we are happy … More
In memory of Prof. Vanessa Watson
From the AESOP YA we want to share this article by African Centre for Cities (ACC) Director Edgar Pieterse, and … More
How can colour contribute to fostering urban justice?
14 min. read A summary examining the potential of so-called “placemaking” interventions in terms of strengthening urban justice, using the … More
Urban Mobility and the Colombian experience: Institutional Failure, Informality and Autonomy.
7 min. read. We continue with our series on themes from the global South, with a short article by our … More
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