20 min. read Introduction Cities in diverse contexts experience increasing civil society engagement through neighbourhood-scale, informal and citizen-based interventions. Local … More
Category: Planning, city, and society
(Abstract Deadline EXTENDED) PlaNext Special issue – Cities in the face of crises: Planning & designing future living environments
3 min read. We are pleased to inform that there is still time until the 31st of December to take … 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
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
Introducing the new AESOP YA Coordination Team: Tjark Gall
3 min. read + video. Continuing with the presentation of the new members of AESOP YA Coordination Team, today we … More
AESOP Conversations in Planning – Special Issue: Planning Practices and Theories from the Global South
4 min. read + videos Building upon our previous editorial on the Conversations in Planning booklet series focused on a … More
The AESOP YA Blog is getting a new design!
2 min read. As we passed the torch to our new YA blog team, one of the decisions we took … More
Social disruption and complexity: Transformative power of crises
Reading time: 10 minutes Guest authors: Pinar Dörder (chair of the YA Coordination Team; Darmstadt University of Technology) and Flavia … More
AESOP Young Academics 