L’article 13^th European Urban and Regional Planning Awards 2025 est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

L’article 13^th Young Planners Workshop 2024 – Call for Abstracts est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

L’article IFLA Photo Competition “People in traditional agricultural landscapes” est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

Much-loved secretary of the European Council of Spatial Planners whose enthusiasm and knowledge helped to promote the art and science of spatial planning across Europe

Judith Eversley, who has died aged 72, was the secretary of the European Council of Spatial Planners (ECTP-CEU) for 21 years from 1992 to 2013.  She was much loved and respected by the many planners who worked with her. It is acknowledged that she was much more than a secretary. She established continuity and stability for the ECTP-CEU, and as a result, helped to realise many of the initiatives that made the organisation successful. Her talent and skills in a wide range of languages ensured that planners in such a diverse set of countries across Europe were warmly welcomed. Judith developed a deep knowledge about European planning and the many associations, keeping immaculate records and building a tremendous portfolio of everything to do with planning and planners in Europe. In her work, she was enthusiastic, energetic, knowledgeable, helpful and efficient. She was an enabler who could make things happen, partly through her warm consideration of others for whom she always wished well. 

Judith was the daughter of David Eversley, the renowned academic who became chief planner at the Greater London Council.  She qualified as an economist with languages (French and German), which came in very useful for her work with ECTP-CEU. In 1992, Judith joined the staff of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as the International Affairs Officer. The RTPI provided the secretariat for the ECTP-CEU, a role which Judith took on with great enthusiasm, having gained experience in international and EEC/EU matters in research projects in economics at the University of Bath and University of Newcastle, and at a branch of the National Consumer Council promoting consumer interests in proposed EU legislation on product and food standards. Immediately before she joined the RTPI Judith ran the Bath European Enquiry Service, helping local businesses to prepare for trading in the new European single market.

Planners in Europe have very fond memories of Judith for her kindness, patience and fairness. At moments of difficult discussions when emotions rose, she quietly referred to her background as a Quaker to speak some wise words to calm the atmosphere.  She showed great dedication, professionalism, competence and co-operation that went far beyond her official responsibilities. She was adored by the ECTP-CEU’s international collaborators, as she was funny, kind, immensely intelligent, and a real asset to the international organisation.

After Judith retired from the RTPI and ECTP-CEU, she took on a job with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, working on their Maintenance Cooperatives Project. Using her diplomatic skills, she found herself encouraging local volunteers to look after their village churches all over Somerset and Dorset in England.  With the skills honed during her work in Europe, she brought her kindness and powers of persuasion to the job, ensuring that coffee and home-made cake played a part in energising local enthusiasts to participate in this important work.  To so many she was a good friend, and she will be remembered forever in the hearts of the planning community of Europe.

Judith is survived by her partner Simon Baker and their children Matthew and Laura Baker.

Judith Eversley, born 24 July 1951, died 21 June 2024

L’article Judith Eversley (1951-2024) est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

For more information on how to apply, please visit IFLA Europe Youth Competition website https://iflaeurope.eu/index.php/youth/general/rules-and-regulations

Deadline 1 September 2024.

L’article IFLA Europe 2024 Youth Competition est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

The Call for Projects and the draft programme have been published by INU (Italian National Institute of Urbanistics), an ECTP-CEU member and main co-organiser of this year’s edition of the Biennale, which is also the first one after the pandemic. The previous Biennale was held in Plymouth, England in 2019.

The Biennale will take place in Naples, Italy from Monday 22nd to Wednesday 24th April 2024. The first two days will be dedicated to the conference — welcome addresses, keynote speeches and planning projects and research presentations and workshops — while during the third day will be given the opportunity to participate in guided tours of the city of Naples and the Campania region. There will also be a rich programme of social events in the evenings from Sunday 21st to Wednesday 23rd.

Deadlines

• 18th December 2023: abstract submission
• 15th January 2024: communication of acceptance
• 15th February 2024: extended abstract submission

Submission fee

• 200 Euros full fee
• 150 Euros for individual members of ECTP-CEU member associations (see list below)
• 50 Euros for PhD students

For further details and abstract submission, please refer to the event’s website at https://www.ectpceu-inubiennalenaples.com or address your questions to biennale@ectp-ceu.eu.

List of ECTP-CEU member associations whose individual members are eligible for discounted submission fee.

• Austria
  • zt-BFG RLG – Bundeskammer der ZiviltechnikerInnen – Bundesfachgruppe Raumplanung, Landschaftsplanung und Geographie
• Belgium
  • CUB – Chambre des Urbanistes de Belgique
  • VRP – Vlaamse Vereniging voor Ruimte en Planning
• Bulgaria
  • СУБ – Съюз на урбанистите в България
• Croatia
  • UHU – Udruga hrvatskih urbanista
• Cyprus
  • ΣΥΠΟΚ – Σύνδεσμος Πολεοδόμων Κύπρου
• Czechia
  • AUÚP ČR – Asociace pro urbanismus a územní plánování České republiky
• Estonia
  • EPÜ – Eesti Planeerijate Ühing
• France
  • SFU – Société Française des Urbanistes
• Germany
  • BAK – Bundesarchitektenkammer – Stadtplanerlisten der Länderkammern
  • SRL – Vereinigung für Stadt-, Regional- und Landesplanung *
• Greece
  • ΣΕΠΟΧ – Σύλλογος Ελλήνων Πολεοδόµων και Χωροτακτών
• Hungary
  • MUT – Magyar Urbanisztikai Társaság
• Iceland
  • SFFÍ – Skipulagsfræðingafélag Íslands *
• Ireland
  • IPI – Irish Planning Institute
• Italy
  • ASSURB – Associazione nazionale degli urbanisti e dei pianificatori territoriali e ambientali
  • INU – Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica
• Malta
  • KMaP – Kamra Maltija għall-Ippjanar
• Norway
  • FKP – Forum for Kommunal Planlegging
• Poland
  • TUP – Towarzystwo Urbanistów Polskich
• Portugal
  • APU – Associação Portuguesa de Urbanistas
• Romania
  • RUR – Registrul Urbaniștilor din România
• Serbia
  • UUS – Udruženje urbanista Srbije
• Slovakia
  • ZUUPS – Združenie pre urbanizmus a územné plánovanie na Slovensku
• Slovenia
  • DUPPS – Društvo urbanistov in prostorskih planerjev Slovenije
• Spain
  • AETU – Asociación Española de Técnicos Urbanistas
  • UAAU – Unión de Agrupaciones de Arquitectos Urbanistas de España *
• Ukraine
  • АПП-РУ – Асоціація просторових планувальників України – Рада урбаністів НСАУ
• United Kingdom
  • RTPI – Royal Town Planning Institute

Organisations marked with an asterisk (*) are corresponding members with individual members. All other listed organisations are full members with individual members. Corresponding members without an individual member structure are not eligible for discounts.

L’article Inclusive Cities and Regions – Territoires inclusifs – 22-24 April 2024 est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

L’article AIVP Prize Antoine Rufenacht est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

Sciences Po and Villes Vivantes are bringing together 350 students, professionals, researchers & elected officials to debate on the urge of empowering inhabitants to help build affordable & sustainable livings.

The programme

The symposium will be held in English and French with a simultaneous translation by interpreters: headsets will be available for all participants.

L’article ORGANIC CITIES est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

Programme

Link for registration

Connect online with Google Meet

L’article The role of the Urban Planner: State of the art and future perspectives est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

The call for papers are open now and will close on January 31, 2024.

L’article Regenerative Landscapes – Designing the Transition est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

74th World Town Planning Day Statement

L’article 74th World Town Planning Day Statement est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

The call for abstracts is out! You can download it from the link here below:
ypws2023-ENG-call.pdf
Attention! There is little time to submit your application. Deadline is
Monday, 16^th October 2023, 12:00 CEST

You will be notified the day after, in the evening, if your contribution will be admitted to be presented at the conference “Transforming Cities: Shaping Development Policies” in Gdańsk, Poland on 6^th-7^th November 2023. The selected participants are asked to attend one or two online meetings a few days after notification of acceptance to discuss how to present their works.

Who can apply? Young planners, preferably young practitioners, aged less than 35 years or with less than 10 years’ post-qualification experience in planning (“35-10-years rule”). Applications can come from individual young planners or from groups with up to 3 members, where every member must meet the 35-10-years rule.

Can’t afford travelling to Gdańsk? No problem. The ECTP-CEU, with the generous support of the Gdańsk city administration (Biuro Architekta Miasta, City Architect’s Office) and of Planning Practice & Research, a Taylor & Francis journal, every group will receive a contribution of 500 euros. Beyond this, we will anyhow ensure that the travelling and hotel costs will be covered at least for one member of each group.

Any question? Don’t hesitate to contact ECTP-CEU’s Young Planners Project Board at yp@ectp-ceu.eu.

You might also want to take a look at the conference’s general page on Gdańks BAM’s website: https://www.gdansk.pl/urzad-miejski/biuro-architekta-miasta/transforming-cities-shaping-development-policies,a,251066 (please, ignore their registration form and deadline if you want to participate in the Young Planners Workshop).

Looking forward to receiving shortly (very shortly!) applications from many young planners around Europe.

L’article 12^th Young Planners Workshop 2023 – Call for Abstracts est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

The next AIVP conference will be held on November 16th, 17th and 18th, 2023 in Venice, in Italy, on the theme: Linking Ports and Citizens: A shared vision for the Future. The AIVP in cooperation with the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority – Ports of Venice and Chioggia will offer a rich program, hosting sessions to discuss, among others, the citizen dialogue in the implementation of solutions for the energy transition, climate change and resilient port cities.   Register Discover the programme

L’article AIVP Venice 2023 est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

At the generous invitation of the Gdansk City Architect, Professor Piotr Lorens and the TUP President, Tomasz Majda, the ECTP-CEU Autumn General Assembly 2023 is going to be held in Gdansk (Poland) from 4^th November – 8^th November 2023, alongside their conference on ‘Transforming Cities’. The City Architect is inviting contributions from planners across Europe to contribute to the conference.  The ECTP-CEU Young Planners’ Workshop will be incorporated into the conference.  More details will follow soon.

We can also announce that the combined event of the ECTP-CEU’s 14^th Bienniale of European Towns and Town Planners and the 13^th European Urban and Regional Planning Awards will be held in Naples, Italy in May 2024. All are welcome to this special conference on ‘Inclusive Cities and Regions – Territoires Inclusifs’. Calls for the awards and for projects for presentation at the biennale will be made this year on the ECTP-CEU website and social media platforms. 

L’article IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

On 22th May, the conference which was organised together with the Malta Chamber of Planners and the Department of Spatial Planning & Infrastructure (University of Malta) was entitled – SPATIAL PLANNING GOVERNANCE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. 

Here are the report and the video

L’article Spatial Planning Governance for 21st Century est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

ECTP-CEU vice president Markus Hedorfer participated representing the European #spatial #planners. Other professions who spoke at the conference were architects, engineers, builders, developers, legal experts, notaries, economists, EU decision makers ; it was a brilliant opportunity to work on vertical expertise integration around the construction sector, where spatial #planning must increase its role and become more proactive.

Special thanks go of course to Giovanni M. Bottini, president of Cobaty International and Laura Rocca, president of Cobaty Italia.

Read also the post published by Cobaty International: https://lnkd.in/dWx5CKup

Photo 1, from left to right: Chiara Panigatta, president of ASSURB – Urbanisti italiani; Markus Hedorfer; Tatiana Negurita, Fondazione Transform Transport, Milan; Giovanni Bottini; Jean Huvelin, director of Cobaty International.

Photo 2: Carlo Ezechieli, Cobaty Italia and session chair; Emilio Pizzi, architect, Milan; Federico Aldini, president of the Milan Chamber of architects, planners, landscapers and conservationists.

Photo 3: Jean Huvelin, Giovanni Bottini, Martine Coets-Gaibili (ECTP-CEU and Cobaty International secretariat), Philippe ESTINGOY, director general of AQC Agence Qualité Construction, Paris, Chiara Panigatta and Markus Hedorfer.

credits: group photos Martine Coets-Gaibili; panel photo Chiara Panigatta

L’article The quality of construction in the light of the various new regulations: an interprofessional approach est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

We feel privileged to have amongst our members a diversity of countries across the whole of Europe –east, west, north and for this Spring Conference we were meeting in one of our most southernly states. We feel that we can enlighten ourselves as planners, by discussing our most pressing problems and exchanging our most inspirational ideas for good planning.

At this conference, Janet Askew, our President held an interesting speech centered around the question, why governance? In this speech she explained the importance of good ethical planning and laid out the three most important points to ensure this.

Below is an excerpt of her speech

The ECTP-CEU has been discussing different systems and methods of governance a lot recently. Reform in the governance of planning – legal and regulatory – is very much on the agenda in many countries.

The issue for planners is that we believe that we can help to address today’s major problems through good planning –that is- sustainability, climate change, social justice and conserving our history and culture. But It could be argued that our main failure is the inability of planners to persuade politicians and communities that planning is a desirable activity to be carried out in the public interest.

The public have simply not engaged favourably with planning; politicians have long misunderstood its achievements and benefits, who since 1980, with the rise of market economics, have been torn between powerful interests of landowners and developers, communities and local government.

So, as we struggle to convince our politicians and our communities of the purpose and value of planning, what must we do?

1. We support the education of planners to high standards, working alongside universities to ensure that planning is based on good quality research with sound evidence that the solutions will work. Furthermore, we want to achieve mutual recognition across Europe so that planners can work in different countries. This is a vital demand for our Young Planners.

2. In bringing together all the associations of professional planners, we abide by a code of ethics, which tells us that we must act professionally without bias or corruption in all we do. A good planner is an ethical planner. A good planner adheres to the international code of professional conduct. An ethical planner is trusted by the community.

3. We believe in our Charter of European planning, which lays down some basic principles –at all scales– national, regional and local. This is accompanied by our charter of participatory democracy, which recognises that we must involve communities in planning, to engage with local people who feel that their own ideas are ignored by powerful interests in society.

Other thought-provoking ideas and speeches discussed at the next conference to be posted soon.

L’article ECTP-CEU Conference : Spatial Planning Governance for the 21st Century est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.

The Times of Malta wrote up a report on the conference – see: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/planners-urged-focus-common-good-chamber-pushes-warrants.1033175

In addition the Royal Town Planning Institute’s report on the conference can be found at: https://www.rtpi.org.uk/blog/2023/may/richard-blyth-european-council-of-spatial-planners-spring-general-assembly/

A fuller report on this succcessful conference will be on the website soon.

L’article Successful conference on Spatial Planning Governance for the 21st Century held in historic World Heritage city of Valletta, Malta est apparu en premier sur ECTP-CEU.