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The present of Open Access: the list of OA journals, updated and extended

Posted on January 11, 2019 by

  Back in 2015, to celebrate that year’s the Open Access week, I decided to put together a list of the OA journals I knew in planning, urban studies and geography, a list which has been afterwards growing thanks to … Continue reading →

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Feeding the melting pot: Inclusive sustainable diets in the multi-ethnic city

Posted on December 20, 2018 by

Guest author: Anke Brons (Aeres University of Applied Sciences, Almere and Wageningen University) Note: This post was initially published on the blog of the The Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) on 27 November 2018. In achieving the transition to more … Continue reading →

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Participatory budgeting made in France

Posted on December 5, 2018 by

Participatory budgeting is increasingly popular among local councils, and is now also adopted by regional and even national governments across the globe. The influential American non-profit Participatory Budgeting Project defines participatory budgeting as such: Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic … Continue reading →

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There is no Alternative? A discussion of an alternative on Tarlabasi Renewal Project

Posted on October 15, 2018 by

This blog post is inspired by the fieldwork I conducted during my PhD research. The research focuses on renovation and regeneration projects, and also on the gentrification concept, in two historic neighbourhoods of Istanbul. The overall goal of the research … Continue reading →

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Slow academia and the neoliberal university: call for blog posts

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

The blog of the AESOP Young Academics network is looking for contributions on all aspects of spatial planning (see for example a general call for blog posts, including such themes as “bridging theory and practice”, and a call for insightful … Continue reading →

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Looking for Aesop in AESOP: call for reflections

Posted on August 29, 2018 by

AESOP is broad and diverse community of scholars and practitioners at diverse stages in their career(s). The AESOP 2018 conference was a strong, engaged and engaging reflection of this diversity, which finds expression in the different thematic groups and wide range of … Continue reading →

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Public participation: databases and resources

Posted on August 22, 2018 by

In this post, I provide a list of resources, repositories and models that can help to design, conduct and evaluate effective public participation in spatial planning. The list is meant to grow and be crowdsourced, so please leave a reply … Continue reading →

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