by admin_user | Sep 5, 2025 | Governance, Reflections
Ran Zhang on AESOP 2025 in Istanbul The week-long congress was filled with insightful exchanges on the relationships between economic growth, environmental sustainability, and socio-spatial justice. What impressed me most was not only the conceptually pioneering...
by admin_user | Aug 21, 2025 | Governance, Inspiration
Understand Planning Professionals In academia, too little attention is given to the messy everyday reality that planning professionals who work in cities, neighborhoods and communities face. Without a thorough analysis of their concerns, limitations and agency to deal...
by admin_user | Aug 6, 2025 | Events, Governance, Reflections
Amsterdam’s Urban Planning Group makes a lasting impact at AESOP 2025 Congress in Istanbul The AESOP 2025 Congress in Istanbul will be remembered not only for its stunning setting and pressing theme, transformative planning in an age of planetary crises, but also for...
by admin_user | Jul 21, 2025 | Governance, Reflections
From Policy to Practice: Regulatory Tools for Affordable Housing in Fragmented Planning Systems Held on July 8, 2025, at the AESOP Annual Congress in Istanbul, our UGoveRN round table titled “From Policy to Practice: Innovative Regulatory Tools for Addressing...
by admin_user | Jun 22, 2025 | Dialogues, Governance
Closing the Circle: Reconnecting financialization and urban land rent in planning research Based on the Keynote Dialogue with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barbara Pizzo (Sapienza Universita di Roma), SIU Conference (Societa Italiana Degli Urbanisti) – XXVIIth National Conference,...
by admin_user | Jun 19, 2025 | Governance, Publications, Reflections
Seeing the Trees, Missing the Forest: Why Public Planning Fails to Harness Social Value in Fragmented Urban Development In contemporary urban development, “social value” has become a shared ambition across both public planning institutions and private property actors....
