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Tag Archives: urban planning
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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The medina as a historic urban landscape
4 min read Guest author: Sarah Ben Salem (Szent István University) The ‘Historic Urban Landscape’ concept in an approach that was declared by the UNESCO in 2011. It refers to the historical sites that should no longer be considered as … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Heritage and Planning, Placemaking, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged Architecture, heritage, Jan Gehl, La Ville Spatiale, Lieux de Memoires, Medina, Old Arabic City, The life between buildings, The social life of cities, The social life of the medina, tourism, Tunis, Tunisia, UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape, urban planning, urban regeneration, Utopies Réalisables, Yona Friedman
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Share summaries of webinars & events
2 min read This post invites you to share summaries of the latest/most engaging webinars you attended or hosted recently. Recovery planning: yes we can! The webosphere currently abounds with ideas and plans for recovery from the covid-19 pandemic. These … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Disaster management, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Events reports, Resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged Blogging, cities, equity, newnormal, place matters, plaNext, planning bogs, post-covid, recovery, Society and Space, space for hope, Space matters, spatial inequalities, Spatial Justice, spatial planning, town planning, urban planning, user experience
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Cartoons for systemic change & recovery
2 min read We normally change only if we have to. A popular idiom encapsulates this: “Necessity is the mother of invention”. If we don’t acutely perceive the need to change, we might just settle for the status quo, and … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Disaster management, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged cartoonathon, cartoons, climate adaptation, Climate change, Community engagement, creativity, digital resources, digital technology, entrepreneurship, hackathons, innovation, institutional capacity, methodology, newnormal, recovery, serious games, spatial planning, systemic change, systems theory, urban planning, urban resilience
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COVID-19 and climate resilience: Effective disaster prevention and management practices
Read time: 7 minutes Guest author: Olga Chepelianskaia (UNICITI) Editor’s note: This post shares the findings of two related articles that link the current crisis with climate resilience. These investigate: 1) human encroachment into natural ecosystems; and 2) resilience planning in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Development, Disaster management, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged adaptation, blue green infrastructure, Climate change, deforestation, disaster, disaster planning, ecosystem services, emergency planning, green infrastructure, mitigation, preparedness, urban planning, urban resilience, urban sustainability
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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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YA blog outlook: 2014-2020 & beyond
Read time: 5 minutes This post gives an overview of the growing activity on the blog since its launch in 2014. Based on the results of a short survey, the post also provides an outlook for 2020 and beyond. The … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Uncategorized
Tagged academe, academia, academic work, AESOP, AESOP YA, Climate change, economic planning, environmental planning, mapping, Planning Theory and Practice, reflective practice, smart cities, smart city, spatial planning, territorial planning, town planning, urban planning, urban resilience
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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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2019 Recap: AESOP YOUNG ACADEMICS in ACTION
Read time: 2-3 minutes Guest author: Agnes Matoga (Chair of AESOP YA Coordination Team, TU Kaiserslautern) As Chair of the AESOP Young Academics Network 2019-2020 I proudly look back on the past year. Not only was the YA Network praised … Continue reading
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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