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Planning Practices and Theories from the Global South: Special Issue
Get PDFThe AESOP Young Academics Special Issue on Planning Practices and Theories from the Global South focuses on planning for less-affluent communities and a role for planning to safeguard the interests of underprivileged groups. The innovation and complexity of planning practices in addressing the uneven development demands additional intellectual space than what is reflected in theories emerged in the global North, and can be addressed by a geographic and thematic ‘Global South’. The booklet brings chapters based on three schools of thoughts: Southern theory, which is in the making; transnational planning as a practice; and an ‘one-world shared approach’.
The booklet is a valuable place marker in the development of regionally-specific, while globally-informed, planning. Some of the world’s most promising young thinkers review and refine the ideas of current leaders in the break out of new planning perspectives from Africa, Arab States, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America
Master in Urban Planning and Policy Design (School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano)
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https://ror.org/01nffqt88The Master Programme in Urban Planning and Policy Design delivered at the School ofArchitecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering is distinctive in the combination of the Mediterranean tradition of spatial planning, Anglo-Saxon policy analysis, and social sciences. It brings together the following aspects of quality in planning education:
- Programme Curriculum and Identity
o The combination of design, policy analysis, urban studies, and social sciences.
o Incorporation of ethics and the reflexivity in exploring the neutrality of planners within contexts of power.
o The eminent teaching team bringing a wide variety of planning and policy ex - Principles of Pedagogy
o Utilisation of compulsory internships to develop in students’ skills of practical reasoning and practical judgement.
o Research and inquiry skills introduced from an early stage and reinforced and developed through the curriculum.
o Support provided to curriculum development by an advisory board constituted from diverse stakeholders and experts.pertise to the curriculum
Infrastructural insurgency : Constructing situated data at Brazil’s urban periphery
No full textplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 11 (2021) : Planning Theories from the Global South 125-143This paper focuses on how insurgencies are continually recast in parallel to State-led redevelopment or 'upgrading'. It brings attention to communities that shape and are reshaped by inclusion of data in processes through which citizens participate in city-making. Drawing on a comparative case study of intensively upgraded informal settlements in São Paulo, Brazil, findings show that data-based insurgencies have been forged from prior collective action. The resultant co-created or situated data challenge the State’s legitimacy as sole arbiter of informal settlement representation and infrastructure transformation in cities. In this context, the term infrastructural insurgency is proposed as a way that socio-material agencies iterate over time and in space, and to stimulate discourse about the future of upgrading. It reflects on which interactions between data and redevelopment can inform planning in post-redevelopment conditions across global south
ExCo Meeting, Online, 18 February 2021
No full textThis is the material for the ExCo Meeting held online on 18 February 2021.
AGENDA
1. Welcome
2. Approval of the agenda
3. Approval of ExCo minutes and resolutions from November and December 2020
4. AEKOM
• IR provider
• Web Manager role
5. Conference Officer Update
• AESOP Congress 2022
• 2021 Events
6. Secretary General Update
• TG Update
• RSA
• ACSP
• Calls Update (AESOP Congress 2023, President 2022-24, AESOP Awards)
• Core Curriculum
• Online Resources
• Paid and Unpaid positions in AESOP
7. Treasurer Update
• Auditors Report
• Membership fee payment status
8. ExCo Updates (QR, GPEAN, YA)
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Embedding Landscape in the Education of Young Planners
Get PDFTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2021): Changing Contexts for Planning Education; 95-112Understanding the relationships between a development and its wider setting is not new to planning. This often delicate balance has been contemplated by planners since well before the ground-breaking European Landscape Convention emerged in 2000. Nevertheless, and in the sustainable management of change, the ELC and its interpretations in domestic laws serve as conscious reminders of landscape as being more value-laden and complex than mere scenery. They support arguments for why meaningful engagement must and should be done - arguments that are most compelling during the education of young planners. In a world where rapid environmental change leads to more deadlines for decision-makers, and in which approaches to prescriptive environmental standards can result in mediocre compliance, it might seem idealistic to expect engagement with landscape in this way. Sharing experiences from University College Cork, this paper explores methods for equipping students with the skills necessary to make efficient and objective yet value-sensitive judgements on landscape at strategic and project levels
Emerging Places of Social Innovation (POSI): A conceptual framework for social innovation in cities
No full textTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Volume 5 / Issue 1 / June 2021; page 55-70Social innovation is recurrently positioned as an important collaborative element in helping cities to transition and address human needs and societal challenges to enhance the health, wellbeing, and welfare of citizens. To address a call for more sector-specific research on the spatiality of social innovation, and also further understanding of the process dimension of social innovation, this article presents a conceptual framework of the process of social innovation. By combining social innovation insight from process theories and urban spaces discourse the article indicates that of social innovation in the co-production of space can be grouped into four major processes: 1) Identification of human needs or societal challenges to sustainable development; 2) Development of social relations in systems or structures; 3) Provision of opportunity for social empowerment; 4) Reflection of socio-spatial development practice. Applying this framework, the article examines how productive green infrastructure emerges in the urban landscape as a Place of Social Innovation (POSI)
18. How public norms help to cope with uncertainty in complex practices of planning
No full textPlanning has become more fallible in the transitional stage of post-modernity. Facing errors and increasing uncertainties does not give an alibi to abandon purposive planning strategies. The public would not accept a flaw of public action when social problems increase. Rather, it is an incentive to make planning strategies more resilient and corrective. Planning always has been tentative and adventurous rather than relying on given certainties. When the problems of time become more intractable, more agility of pragmatism is in the line of expectation. However, what if the purposes and solutions become part of the problem instead of bringing relief? Today, planning and public action are challenged in depth. In his main work Public Norms and Aspirations (2018) Willem Salet argues that improving on pragmatic agility is a permanent drive for planning, it is necessary and worthwhile but not adequate and might even become a problem in itself when taken as the sole point of orientation. The lone preoccupation with problem solving and targeting purposive aspirations has become one of the main concerns of planning practices today. It has become matter of urgency to re-appreciate the role and the meaning of public norms in planning and public action. Public norms differ strongly of goal-specific or problem-solving aspirations; they are normative conditions to social interaction rather than performing purposive action and solving problems. They provide a normative antenna of the public in its permanent search to value 'what one might expect from another' providing reliability in uncertain situations, justifying what is 'appropriate' to do rather than performing outcome oriented planning processes. Both processes of social normalisation and purposive strategies of problem solving are needed in planning: it is in their dialectic interaction that the answers must be found for the problems of planning in our time. However, the normative dimension of planning is deeply neglected today in the prevailing managerial practices of planning and public action (and even in law and legislation). As a result, the purposive and problem solving strategies themselves have become nomadic and fragile. Willem Salet will discuss the contemporary dilemmas of planning by confronting the prevailing approaches of urban and regional planning with challenges of public norms and social normalisation. He will discuss major topical issues of public planning practices in city-regions and raise attention to the normative dilemma's with regard to recent climate policies; the normative dilemma's regarding housing policies for low- and middle-income groups in European city-regions; the normative dilemma's of mobility planning, facing particularly challenges of multimodal infrastructures; and the normative conditions of landscape and heritage to purposive processes of urban development.
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When vagueness is a strategic resource for planning actors
No full textPlanning Theory, 20(4), 1–24, 2021This article examines vagueness in planning discourse not as a deficiency but as a strategic resource used by planning actors in adverse circumstances. Based on a systematic textual and visual analysis of 36 French local transport plans produced between 2000 and 2015, the paper demonstrates how vagueness is employed to hedge against uncertainty, manage conflict, and avoid firm commitments. The findings highlight vagueness as a diffuse yet powerful element of planning discourse, reshaping how plans function as instruments of governance.publishedVersio
Program of the 15th AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting Wien (Austria) 10th-12th March 2021
No full textPlanning Education for Europe and Beyond, TU Wien, Vienna, 10 - 12 March 2021
The European idea has never been based on exclusion but rather on integration and common effort to foster prosperity and peace. The political discourse in Europe has changed and voices supporting territorialism and disregarding the necessity of collaboration and a coordinated European spatial development seem to be widely accepted. Planning schools throughout Europe educate students to hold positions that will shape Europe’s development in the future as it regards its social, cultural, ecological, political and economic qualities. Their efforts to integrate transnational perspectives as well as fundamental European values contribute to an open minded and reflected education enabling students to consider a broader perspective and act responsibly.
Therefore, we would like to discuss a PLANNING EDUCATION FOR EUROPE AND BEYOND at the AESOP Heads of Schools meeting in 2021.
https://aesop-planning.eu/resources/news-archive/aesop/events/16th-aesop-heads-of-schools-meeting-hosted-by-tu-wien-10-12-march-2021
https://aesop2021hos.tuwien.ac.at/home
What Does the Future Hold for a Post-Covid AESOP?
Get PDFdisP - The Planning Review, 57Covid-19 has alarmed the world and forced local economies to reorganise production and services, citizens to reorganise their daily lives, work habits and entertainment preferences and universities to organise online education or hybrid forms of teaching. It has also debarred the community of European planning educators from two annual congresses. This seems to have caused some planning educators at AESOP member schools in Europe to reflect on the future of an association that is highly de- pendent on face-to-face communication at its annual congresses. Will everything return to a new normal after the pandemic has been successfully tamed? The following comments raise some questions and present some pathways into the future. 1 AESOP: More Than a European Travel Agency? The annual jamboree of ambitious and curious planners was not able to take place. Planning educators could not travel to another country, present their research results, listen to other planners' findings, compare their planning ex perience with that of others, learn about in- novative approaches to urban development on study tours or mobile workshops, leaf though recently published planning books or forge plans to collaborate with researchers from other planning cultures. They were not forced to explain their planning approach in another language to an international audience. And they could not learn, often more importantly, about the merits or shortcomings of their own planning culture back home, when urged to ex- plain it to a curious neighbour in a planning workshop. Even more joyful pleasures could not be experienced, such as communicating in another language, drinking a cappuccino with a colleague in the university courtyard, practising another European language over lunch, or roaming through an unknown city quarter in a new city and visiting a museum or cathedral guided by the eyes of a colleague from another planning culture. Even face-to-face experiences with a new friend during coffee breaks could not be adventured.publishedVersio