26th AESOP
Annual Congress 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS

Ankara, Turkey
DEADLINE: 15.01.2012
AESOP Association of European School of Planning

The theme of the 26th Congress is: Planning to achieve/Planning to avoid, The Need for New Discourses and Practices in Spatial Development and Planning. This theme faces the issue related to the drastic changes in the environmental, economic, social, and political contexts. Global warming, climate change, environmental deterioration, ecological degradation, depletion of natural resources, biological degeneration, and other macro processes are more clearly perceived and understood today by scientists, planners and the world community. New approaches, policy frameworks, and methods of intervention are considered as imperatives today. As conditions of economic and ecologic existence become more fragile, planning decisions and implementations demand greater transparency and shared responsibilities. This cangress is a call, therefore, to review the implications and significance of current and potential conditions and phenomena, and launch ideas in spatial development and planning.

In line with this main theme, the tracks of the congress are listed below:
1. Planning Theory and Methods
2. Planning History
3. Planning Law, Instruments, Practice
4. Planning Education
5. Growth, Degrowth and Shrinkage
6. Urban Change: Plans, Visions and Policies
7. Regional Change and Resilience: Plans, Institutions and Concepts
8. European Territorial Cooperation and Policies
9. Heritage, Urban Cultures, Urban Design
10. Transport and Infrastructure Planning
11. Housing, Regeneration and Community Development
12. Vulnerabilities, Risks and Mitigation Planning
13. Sustainable Resource Management, Energy and Planning
14. Demography, Multi-Culturality and Social Cohesion
15. Urban Politics, Democracy, Governance, and Participation


PAPER SUBMISSION
Presentation can be in two forms:
• Full paper presentation: oral presentation with full paper;
• Poster presentation: to be exhibited in the poster session of the congress
• Abstracts should be submitted for both full paper presentation and poster presentation.

IMPORTANT DATES
15 January 2012
Abstract Submission Deadline
30 April 2012
Deadline for Submission of Full Papers
31 May 2012
Deadline for Authors' Registration
11 July 2012 - 14 July 2012
Congress Sessions

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Prof. Dr.Melih Ersoyù
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ela Babalik-Sutcliffe
Prof. Dr. Murat Balamir
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cagatay Keskinok


FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONTACTS:
• AESOP 2012 Conference Website
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ela Babalık-Sutcliffe
Department of City and Regional Planning
Faculty of Architecture (METU Middle East Technical University)
PHONE: +90 (0) 312 210 22 63 
E-MAIL: aesop12@metu.edu.tr
E-MAIL: ebaba@metu.edu.tr
• ARBER Professional Tourism and Congress Services
Sair Nedim Sokak No: 19/ 1 06540 A.Ayranci / Ankara, Turkey 
PHONE: 0090.312.441 07 00
FAX: + 90.312.441 07 01
E-MAIL: arber@arber.com.tr
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