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Category Archives: Planning, city, and society
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 Giallorenzo (University of Florence) The Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)’s Planning and Complexity Thematic Group is an open … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Planning, city, and society, Resilience, Sustainability and resilience, The YA network, Uncategorized
Tagged 15 minute city, Cities and Covid-19, city planning, Climate change, critical planning, Planning and complexity Thematic Group, planning complexity, social disruption, social distancing, urban planning, urban resilience
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Welcome 2021 – a fresh new start!
Reading time: 3 minutes Goodbye 2020, welcome 2021 Without doubt, 2020 was a challenging year for all of us. Equally, the challenges came with a silver lining. Every challenge, personal or collective, is an opportunity to become more resilient and … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Blogging, Climate change, Community engagement, Disaster management, Ecology, Planning, city, and society, Resilience, The YA network, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate change, COP26, Earth shots, Placemaking, research impact, Spatial Justice, spatial planning, town planning, urban planning, urban resilience
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Public and stakeholder engagement, covid-19 and the ‘digital explosion’ – are we heading towards a more ‘blended’ approach?
This post highlights the need, value and challenges of adopting a blended approach to community engagement to help overcome digital divides and other hinders to citizen participation in spatial planning Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Community engagement, Methodology and ethics, Placemaking, Planning, city, and society, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged blended approach, Citizen participation, civic tech, communication, Community development, Community engagement, digital divide, online surveys, PhD research, phygital, public participation, stakeholder engagement
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Desassossego [disquiet]: reflecting on being academics during the Covid-19 pandemic
8 min read Guest authors: Urban Transitions Hub (UTH) (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon) Editor’s note: This post is an engaging contribution by the members of UTH, including the founder and former editor-in-chief of the YA blog. With … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Planning, city, and society, Uncategorized
Tagged academia, academic activism, Connectedness, covid response, critical geography, critical urban studies, dystopia, Early Career Research, humanities, mental health, Online collaboration, online reading group, PhD chat, post-covid, remote working, Research funding, research impact, spatial planning, university-community engagement, urban governance, urban planning, urban studies, urban transition
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Digital adaptations & reflections: from people to planet
Read time: 5 minutes In a time of global crisis, the digital keeps us connected and providing us opportunities to adapt and reflect both individually and collectively. This post shares some digital adaptations and reflections that stretch from the individual … Continue reading
Top 10 blog posts on the YA blog
Read time: 2 minutes This post celebrates the top ten blog posts published on the blog of the AESOP Young Academics network since its launch in 2014. It does so by way of a traditional list of the top ten … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Blogging, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Economy, PhD process, Planning, city, and society, Resilience, Resources, Sustainability and resilience, Technology, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized, VIVA
Tagged academe, academia, blog, Blogging, city-region, governance, mapping, OA, OA journals, open source, PhD, PhD defense, quality of life, spatial planning, sustainability, Technology, territorial planning, urban design, urban development, urban sustainability, urbanism, UX, VIVA, YA blog
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Placemaking: toolkits & books
Read time: 3 minutes This post is a companion to a previous post: Placemaking: trends & people. This post focuses on toolkits, methods, books and handbooks for effective placemaking in a range of contexts, from healthy streets and neighbourhood planning … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Community engagement, Development, Disaster management, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Resources, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged cities for people, cluster approach, disaster, Infrastructure, New Urbanism, open source, Participatory 3D modelling, participatory methods, place standard tool, place-making, Placemaking, regeneration, Resilience, resilient cities, urban regeneration, urban resilience, urban STEP
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Placemaking: trends & people
Read time: 4-5 minutes This brief post presents some trends and people that shape the placemaking movement worldwide. See the companion post: Placemaking: toolkits & books. Feel free to contribute more placemaking resources to: blog@aesop-youngacademics.net The post is structured as … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Ecology, Planning, city, and society, Resilience, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged cities for people, guerrilla gardening, life between buildings, participatory budgeting, participatory planning, permaculture, place-making, Placemaking, Resilience, social enterprise, social entreprise, tactical urbanism, urban acupuncture, urban gardening, urban health, urban planning, urbanism
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Highlights from 2018
Read time: 4-5 minutes 2018 was the year which generated the most traffic on the blog: 13,000 views and 9,300 visitors for 29 published posts. The posts covered such diverse themes as territorial governance, active mobility, sustainable food systems, development, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Community engagement, Conferences, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Public transport, Sustainability and resilience, Sustainable consumption, Technology, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged AESOP, AESOP YA, affordable housing, built environment, cycling, Development, education, housing policy, impact assessment, Infrastructure, migrants, planning graduates, planning policy, public health, public participation, resilient cities, slow academia, sustainable food, Technology, territorial planning, Urban Heat Island, urban planning, urban resilience, urban sanitation
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Top 14 books & events of the 2010s (views from the USA)
Read time: 3-4 minutes As we enter a brand new decade, the American spatial planning community has been generous in providing retrospectives of the past decade. Here are some highlights. Planetizen, the iconic US-based portal for professional planners, researchers and … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Conflict, Ecology, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Public transport, Resilience, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate change, environmental justice, Infrastructure, Placemaking, pollution, public health, Public transport, regeneration, Resilience, resilient cities, segregation, sustainability, tactical urbanism, urban planning, urban regeneration, walkability
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