Territorial Capital Institute

𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗣 - 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 is very excited to invite you to our 10th edition of the on in Planning, a joint webinar which will take place on 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝟰𝗽𝗺 – 𝟱:𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗧. This is a 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 event, part of our programme to bring critical planning matters forward and closer to our community.

Join us in this dialogue between practitioners, academics, and professionals worldwide, curated by our Board and Scientific Committee member 𝗧𝗶𝗷𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗧𝘂𝗳𝗲𝗸 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗶š𝗲𝘃𝗶ć, PhD and Scientific Committee Chair 𝗨𝗹𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗲.

We are honored to have 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗪. 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘇, 𝗗𝗿. 𝗟𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗾𝗶𝗻𝗴 and 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗮 𝗞𝗮𝗺𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗸𝗮-𝗭𝗮𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗸𝗮 among the presenters, with 𝗗𝗿. 𝗟𝗶 𝗙𝗮𝗻 and 𝗪𝗮𝗳𝗮 𝗔𝗹-𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆, Ph.D. providing reflections. Looking forward to learning and reflecting on international best practices and research regarding the fast-developing Artificial Intelligence and its use in field of urban and territorial planning!

👉 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://bit.ly/3yWb6QX
👉 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗔𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗮 #𝟭𝟬: https://isocarp.org/cyber-agora-10-artificial-intelligence-in-planning/

⚠️We need your help to save SDG 11.3.2 - the indicator focuses on participatory planning processes.

This indicator is at risk of being removed from the SDG Global Database. We need your action to collect enough data on participation in urban planning and management.

↘️Kindly respond to the survey
https://ourcityplans.org/sdg-11-indicator/survey

🌎Your support can help to safeguard one of the cornerstones of sustainable urban development!

📢Calls for Coordinators and Participants are open for the 2023 Gdansk Young Professionals’ Workshop - a joint initiative of ISOCARP and ITACUS!

👉Subject: Bridging the Divide - Connecting the Young City and the Polish Hook Areas in Gdansk
👉Application Deadline: 10 March
👉For information, applications, eligibilities and logistics check here: https://isocarp.org/2023-gdansk-ypp/

The workshop will take place in Gdansk, Poland, April 16-21, 2023, hosted by the City of Gdansk. Spread the word! Don’t miss the opportunity to apply and join ISOCARP’s global network!

This workshop revolves around shaping the on-ground and underground public spaces, developed on the occasion of the tunneling project being part of the extension of the Popiełuszki street, providing a transport connection between two parts of the area divided by the Motława river. The main purpose of the workshop is to define the outlines of the city development strategy in respect to the process of shaping public spaces associated with the planned tunneling project.

We are thrilled to receive your applications!

If you have any questions regarding your application, please contact Zeynep Gunay, ISOCARP Board, Director YPP via [email protected]

We’re ON

In partnership with Urban Economy Forum (UEF), ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners is delighted to announce the organisation of the joint Urban Economy Forum 5 (UEF5) and 59th ISOCARP World Planning Congress (WPC59) in Toronto, Canada.

“For Climate Change, Urban Finance. Climate-responsive Planning for Equitable Places & Communities” will be a unique global joint hybrid conference, taking place 10-13 October 2023 in inspiring places such as Regent Park and the World Urban Pavilion powered by Daniels.

Our common ambition is to bring together city leaders, academia, multi-level government representatives, NGOs, local organisations and the civil society, entrepreneurs, financiers and planning professionals for a much-needed cross-sectoral dialogue and knowledge co-production on shaping climate-responsive and equitable places and communities in a rapidly and largely unplanned urbanizing world.

UEF5+WPC59 will focus on the key role of urban finance and climate-responsive planning in promoting sustainable development against the backdrop of an increasingly complex global multi-crisis.

Please reserve the dates, arrange for Canada visas soon and stay tuned for more information here: bit.ly/3R7k4zu

'Cycling cannot work in our city. It is much bigger than Amsterdam/Utrecht/Groningen!' Cycling accounts for 27% of ALL DUTCH TRIPS*! So, why not in , , , , , ?

*NL is now a metropole with 17 million inhabitants
(source of map: https://brilliantmaps.com/empty-netherlands/)

Congress Declaration 🌍

With the congress theme 'From Wealthy to Healthy Cities,' the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) and the Brussels Capital Region highlighted the need for conceiving another world where collective well-being is put at the center of political agendas and no one is left behind.

provided the ISOCARP community with crucial information to build healthier cities capable of adapting to the future endeavors of our global society. Even before the Covid19 pandemic, many cities lagged, and the gaps continue to widen. Therefore, our congress provided a platform to discover how to integrate methods that prioritize people, places, and the planet and move beyond profit and growth to nurture social, cultural, and ecological well-being.

It is time to take a rights-based approach and reclaim affordable housing, sustainable mobility, viable water and energy management, and access to essential goods and services as rights, not merely as commodities in cities! We must overcome all the barriers to diversity and equity, ensure sociocultural and economic inclusion and strive to attain socio-spatial justice, including fair use of spaces and a just land use management.

Read the full congress declaration here: https://brussels2022.dryfta.com/163-congress-declaration.

ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners
Urban.brussels
perspective.brussels
Bruxelles Environnement Leefmilieu Brussel

🎉 SPECIAL SESSION: Health care in spatial planning🎉

We are excited to present our special session with care and urban planning experts who experiment and develop methodologies that contribute to health. The environment in which we live directly influences our lives and impacts our health and well-being. The effects observed on the health of populations are apparent such as in the increase in the number of deaths, changes in food production cycles, development of respiratory pathologies, and the development of mental health disorders. Acknowledging the importance of prevention and a Health in all Policies approach, cities can be the platform for integrated responses to increasing people's well-being effectively.

What is the role of urban and spatial planners in health policies? How can the built environment promote health and care? How can we work hand in hand with the health and care sector, and how can we achieve this? Which specific insights and methods developed by health sector experts will help make urban planning more effective as a public policy and investment?
These are some questions the presenters will cover, followed by a discussion with panelists and the audience to grasp how we can advance health in our society.

See you all there!

Detailed programme: https://bit.ly/3dkUW9j
Register here: https://bit.ly/3AhFjrJ

ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners
Urban.brussels
perspective.brussels
Bruxelles Environnement Leefmilieu Brussel

📣 LAST DAY to SIGN UP to WPC58 OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES!📣

Today is the last day to sign up for all WPC58 outdoor activities. Our congress team has prepared a wide range of unique activities to learn more about what the Brussels city region is doing to advance health. Don't miss the opportunity of attending all of our bike, run, and workshops and explore this European capital with us.

We remind all registered attendees of WPC58 that it is required to sign up for all activities beforehand. Participants who do not sign up for our congress platform will not be able to attend any outdoor event on the spot.

You can find all WPC58 special activities here: bit.ly/3dMZVzw
If you are not an attendee, register for the Congress and join us: https://bit.ly/3dLaOC6
Don't forget to bring the proper clothes, shoe-ware, and gear for each activity.

Check out the WPC58 detailed programme: https://bit.ly/3dkUW9j

ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners
Urban.brussels
perspective.brussels
Bruxelles Environnement Leefmilieu Brussel

🎉SPECIAL SESSION: Shifting (urban) economy: What place for economic transition in the city?🎉

We are excited to hold our special session on Urban Circular Economy with our collaborators of Brussels- Capital Region. Like many other European cities, Brussels has embraced alternative methods for a sustainable economy as a critical element of its Economic Transition Strategy. Indeed, through the shift toward Urban circularity, cities aim to anchor economic production locally, stimulate the creation of new jobs and reduce environmental impacts. However, urban CE policies have shown a set of contradictions and limitations in delivering their socio-ecological transformative potential. This special session will discuss which spatial planning perspectives would foster urban circularity practices which are more inclusive, enable local communities' empowerment, and contribute to the city's socio-economic-environmental resilience.

See you all there!

Detailed programme: https://bit.ly/3dkUW9j
Register here: https://bit.ly/3AhFjrJ

ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners
Urban.brussels
perspective.brussels
Bruxelles Environnement Leefmilieu Brussel

Happening now

📣 ONLINE SPECIAL SESSION TODAY: Planning Education and Practice in Transition 📣

Registered attendees can log in here: bit.ly/3S2zzbK

Take part in the rest of the sessions of the day by clicking "Join Meeting" at the session of your choice. Detailed Session Programme here: bit.ly/3SnbGeJ

Log in from 17:00 to 18:30 CET to the WPC58 Online Pre-congress and attend our special session on "Planning Education and Practice in Transition," organized by ISOCARP in collaboration with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). This event brings together planning practitioners and educators to discuss the challenges ahead of us to think together and co-create a new planning agenda for urban health, socio-spatial justice, and climate resilience.

In the general context of the central theme of the congress, the session aims to discuss how or should plan education and practice and respond to the pressing issues of our times marked by climate emergency, escalating social, economic, and health crises, and spatial and environmental inequalities.

See you all there!

ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners
Urban.brussels
perspective.brusselsI
Bruxelles Environnement Leefmilieu Brussel

🎉 In 2 days we are officially launching the Pre-Congress Virtual Sessions of (21-22 September). We are delighted!🎉

Detailed programme: https://bit.ly/3dkUW9j
Register here: https://bit.ly/3AhFjrJ

Our online event will kickstart with an Opening Plenary on Tuesday, September 21, at 9:15 AM CEST. To orientate all participants, this event will discuss the scope of our congress while looking into introducing the challenges our global society is facing related to health and urban planning.

Pietro Elisei, president of ISOCARP, Zeynep Enlil, General Rapporteur of WPC58, Elisabeth Belpaire, WPC58 Congress Director, and Frank D'hondt, ISOCARP Secretary General, will welcome and introduce us to the topics of the two-day event and the Congress overall.

We will also have the pleasure of listening to the Opening presentations of Naomi Hoogervorst, Planning, Finance and Economy officer at UN-Habitat, Isabelle Anguelovski, Director of BCNUEJ, Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability and Marianne Lefever, sustainable and healthy urban development expert, followed by a Q&A debate as a warmup for our congress!

Keynote Addresses:

🔔 Isabelle Anguelovski, Director of BCNUEJ, Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability
"Changing Paradigm and Practice: Health Justice in Greening Cities"

🔔 Marianne Lefever, Healthy City expert, PosadMaxwan, StrategyxDesign, member ISOCARP CoPUH
"A Healthy City: A Utopia or a Realism?"

🔔Naomi Hoogervorst, Programme Management Officer, Planning, Finance, and Economy Section, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Have you registered for the ?
Don't forget to register here: https://bit.ly/3AhFjrJ
Detailed programme: https://bit.ly/3dkUW9j

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📣SPECIAL SESSIONS: Spatial planning beyond economic growth: approaches for an urbanization in a finite planet 📣

ISOCARP is happy to present one of our most relevant special sessions during dedicated to promoting a healthy economy. To this end, this event will discuss the spatial and social well-being of cities as they become increasingly dependent on economic growth. Yet, this growth comes at the cost of material depletion and social conflicts. How can cities thrive while decreasing their ecological impact? What approaches can spatial planners use to pursue social well-being, human health, and spatial qualities while decreasing the pressure of cities on the environment? This special session will explore these and more questions about our exacerbated economic model.

👉Register to join us: https://bit.ly/3AeWkmr
👉Explore the Congress Programme: https://bit.ly/3cPGBAV

ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners
Urban.brussels
perspective.brussels
Bruxelles Environnement Leefmilieu Brussel

One of the great territorial thinkers

📣 We are honored to announce Professor Erik Swyngedouw as one of the keynote speakers for the !📣

Dr. Swyngedouw is a professor of Geography at Manchester University. He was also a geography professor at Oxford University until 2006 and held the Vincent Wright Visiting Professorship in Political Science at Science Po, Paris, in 2014. His research interests include critical theory, political ecology, urban governance, democracy, political power, and the politics of globalization. As a leading researcher in environment-society relationships and the analysis of the capitalist space economy, his work emphasizes analyzing socio-environmental conflicts, water politics, political and economic crises, and urban political movements.

During his keynote presentation, he will center on “immunity planning” and explore the potential de-politicizing processes accompanying the controversies over the Anthropocene. With him, we shall discuss and uncover some uncomfortable, disturbing dynamics that are not readily visible behind the narratives of sustainability and resilience. We will then explore possible trajectories for re-politicization and the alternative socio-ecological relations engaged by planners.

Have you registered for the ?

Don't forget to register here: https://bit.ly/3AhFjrJ

ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners
Urban.brussels
perspective.brussels
Bruxelles Environnement Leefmilieu Brussel

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📢 We are on a quest to promote an economy that prioritizes people, places, and the planet and moves beyond profit and growth, to prioritizing social and ecological wellbeing!

Register here to join us: https://bit.ly/3AeWkmr
Congress Programme: https://bit.ly/3cPGBAV

👉Transition to a healthy economy urges us to rethink how we produce, consume and live. This calls for a transition to an economy that is just, more inclusive and prioritizes public health while reducing its fossil fuel reliance.

👉To attain planetary health, sustainability and resilience, we need to reframe our thinking and focus on revitalizing and regenerating our natural world, prioritizing nature-based solutions, climate adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity, and integration of natural and urban systems.

These and many more topics related to Urban Health will be discussed during the 58th WPC in Brussels. Don't miss it!

Register here: https://bit.ly/3AeWkmr
Congress Programme: https://bit.ly/3cPGBAV

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My favourite neighbourhood in Athens - and yours?

The Kypseli Neighborhood: A Queen of Reinvention - Greece Is This central Athens neighborhood’s fortunes have risen and fallen over the decades. Today, Kypseli is enjoying a thrilling period of new openings, new events, new people and new energy, making it – once again – the trendiest and most exciting neighborhood in Athens.