Events

Registration for the fifth AAPS conference, themed Urban Africa in 21st Century, will open on 1 August 2021.

AAPS members will participate in the upcoming ICLEI event ‘Learning from and across African cities: Emancipatory pedagogies for transformative change’, scheduled for 25 May 2021.

The 5th International Conference on Urban e-Planning will take place online from 7 to 10 September 2021.

The fifth international AAPS Conference is now scheduled to take place in November 2021 in Dar es Salaam.

The Institute of Spatial Planning (IRPUD) at TU Dortmund University (Germany), together with the Institute of Human Settlement Studies and School of Spatial Planning and Social Sciences at Ardhi University (Tanzania) invite paper submissions for the fifth international conference of the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS).

The Urban Affairs Association (UAA) has called for abstract submissions to its 49th Annual Conference, scheduled 24 to 27 April 2019 in Los Angeles (USA).

As part of broader efforts to develop collaborative learning across the continent, the Situated Urban Political Ecology collective and Urban Action Lab at Makerere University will be hosting a workshop on urban infrastructures in Africa from 12 to 15 November, 2018.

The Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) will be participating in two networking events at the upcoming World Urban Forum, to be held from 7 to 13 February in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) welcomes proposals from the members of its associations to host and organize the fifth World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC) in July 2021.

The Middle Class Urbanism project and Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, invite submissions for an international conference themed ‘Middle Class Urbanism in the Global South: Routes, Shapes and Aspirations’.

The African Centre for Cities (ACC) has called for submissions to its international conference, to be held from 1 to 2 February 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa.

The international conference ‘The Right to the City in the South: Everyday urban experience and rationalities of government’ will be held at CESSMA in Paris, from 15 to 17 November 2017.

This week is your final chance to submit an abstract for the 14th International Conference on Urban Health, scheduled for 26 to 29 September 2017 in Coimbra, Portugal.

The African Union Leadership Academy (AULA), in partnership with the Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience Global Practice team of the World Bank, has invited African participants to enroll for an online learning programme on the topic of urban crime and violence prevention.

With the patronage of the Government of The Republic Cameroon, and in collaboration with the UN-Habitat and the University of Ottawa, the second International Conference on Canadian, Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization (ICCCASU II): ‘Smart Urban Development: Local to Global Actions’, will be held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from 12 to 14 December 2017.

The University of Cape Town (South Africa) is offering a short educational course on corruption and urban planning in the sub-Saharan African context, to run in February 2017.

Today is International Anti-Corruption Day, and to mark the occasion we’d like to remind you of the short course on corruption and urban planning in the sub-Saharan African context to be held at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) in February 2017.

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) has called for paper submissions to its inaugural research conference, Urban ARC, to be organised around the theme ‘The City in Transition’ in January 2017.

The World Bank has called for submissions to the 18th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty to be held from 20 to 24 March 2017 at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C. The conference theme will be ‘Responsible Land Governance: Towards an Evidence Based Approach’.

An International Scientific Conference on Cities and Climate Change, co-organised by urban and scientific organisations and co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will be held in 2018 to further the scientific understanding of climate change and cities in support of the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.