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Category Archives: Events reports
Survey: Your blog. Your community.
The blog of the AESOP Young Academics’ network is a great asset for all members and followers of the AESOP community to share their work. It is a place to share summaries of academic publications, personal insight about academic and … Continue reading
A motto to revisit and revise – EQUAL PAY. EQUITABLE PAY
In a recent article published by The Guardian written by Peter Fleming (Do you work more than 39 hours a week? Your job could be killing you), a few realities of job market and employment, with research findings of Columbia University Medical Center, University College London, Australian National University, US researcher Alex Soojung-Kim Pang; were highlighted Continue reading
YA conference summary & selective list of upcoming planning conferences
One of the last major spatial planning events was the 12th AESOP Young Academics conference, held at the University of Groningen 26-29 March 2018. Following last year’s YA conference (focusing on planning and entrepreneurship), this year’s conference was entitled “Navigating … Continue reading
Housing in India and government attitude towards it
Housing is an important aspect of city development. Population growth in a city is mainly attributed to two main reasons: migration from different areas in search of jobs and natural growth (birth rates exceeding death rates). However, the pace of housing provision, particularly by government agencies, is never able to keep up with the pace of population increase. Also, the National Urban Housing and Habitat policy-2007, which emphasizes “Affordable housing for All”, aims at ‘Forging strong partnerships between public, private and cooperative sectors for accelerated growth in the Housing Sector and sustainable development of habitat’. At the end of the day, it’s all about Roti, Kapdaa aur Makaan. Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Conflict, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Economy, Events reports, Methodology and ethics, Planning, city, and society, Resources, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged cities in conflict, Delhi, India, social justice, Society and Space, Space matters, Spatial Justice
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Critical thinking on smartness, service providing and technology: YA sessions at UTC Palermo
Guest author: Dezsö Vajtho, Utrecht University, MSc Sustainable Development (LinkedIN). This post is a report from the two sessions organized by the AESOP Young Academics network during the Urban Thinker Campus, an event organzed by PUSH, included in the World Urban … Continue reading
Cities after transition: where are they, and where is the research about them?
It has been already 25 years since the great political change took place in the former socialist states, which has brought also numerous changes in the fields of urban and regional development. For a couple of years, scholars working on the … Continue reading
Posted in Events reports, Planning, city, and society
Tagged communication, conference, dissemination
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The Mayors Adapt (Convenant of Mayors 2.0): toward a smart city.
It was held in Naples, the inauguration of Mayors Adapt initiative, commissioned by the Directorate General of the European Commission’s Climate Action and founded assuming the EU adaptation strategy to climate change. Mayors Adapt supports the cities, creating an opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Events reports, Sustainability and resilience
Tagged adaptation, anticipation, climate change, Europe, impact, Italy, Mayor Adapt, sustainability
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