Events

From 21 to 24 March 2016, the Federal University of Technology (Akure, Nigeria) will host the Joint International Conference on the Environment, with the theme ‘21st Century Human Habitat: Issues, Sustainability and Development’. The conference will be co-hosted by London South Bank University and De Montfort University (United Kingdom).

The website of the fourth World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC), scheduled for 3 to 8 July 2016, is now up and running.

Registrations for the Africities Summit 2015, the premier meeting for Africa’s local authorities, are now open.

The Institute for Development Studies will host the IDS@50 Conference from 18 to 21 November 2015 at the University of Nairobi.

The 17th International Planning History Society Conference will be held in Delft, The Netherlands, from 17 to 21 July 2016. The conference theme is ‘History-Urbanism-Resilience’.

The University of Ottawa and UN-Habitat are inviting submissions to present a paper, poster, or to organize a workshop, forum or panel at the 2015 International Conference on Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization (ICCASU), to be held in Ottawa (Canada) on 24 and 25 October 2015.

The international conference ‘Rural-Urban Connections in Sub-Saharan Africa’ will be held from 25 to 28 January 2016 at the University of Copenhagen.

On 23 July 2015 the African Centre for Migration & Society, based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, will host a workshop addressing the themes of difference and cohesion in contemporary South African cities.

The Southern African City Studies Conference will be held in Durban (South Africa) from 17 to 19 March 2016.

Christine Platt, the former president of the Commonwealth Association of Planners, writes on the need to recognise the critical interlinkages between urban and rural areas within the emerging New Urban Agenda.

The second Conference of Planning Students and Young Graduates (CPSYG 2015) will be hosted by the University of Johannesburg at their Doornfontein campus in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa.

The Sudanese Institute of Architects (SIA) will host its fourth Scientific and Professional Conference from 9 to 11 November 2015 in Khartoum.

From Monday 17 to Wednesday 19 November, the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) hosted its fourth biennial conference in Cape Town (South Africa).

A workshop dedicated to the topic of ‘Urban Political Ecology in African Cities’ is scheduled to take place at the University of Pretoria from 22 to 26 September 2014.

The AAPS Secretariat is delighted to announce the call for papers for the upcoming AAPS 2014 conference, themed ‘African Urban Planning and the Global South: Pedagogy, Research, Practice’.

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Lagos (Nigeria) will host the upcoming International Conference of Urban and Regional Planning (ICURP14) from 6 to 8 October 2014.

AAPS recently acted as an endorser of the Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) Africa 2013 congress on local climate solutions, held in Dar es Salaam from 30 October to 1 November 2013. AAPS contributed to a congress session on climate change and planning education. Prof A.C. Mosha of the University of Botswana participated in the session on behalf of AAPS.

On 23 and 24 September 2013, UN-Habitat and the University of Nairobi co-hosted a workshop to explore ways of increasing mutual collaboration between UN-Habitat and AAPS members in Kenya, and to create a forum for the schools to formulate how they may promote AAPS objectives in Kenya.

Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) Africa, together with the City of Dar es Salaam, will host a world-class congress from 30 October to 1 November 2013, to identify and showcase innovative solutions and opportunities to the challenges of rapid urbanization, and realistic responses to climate change at the local government level.

AAPS Project Coordinator Dr Nancy Odendaal recently attended the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) Governing Council meeting, held in Recife (Brazil) from 17 to 19 May 2013. The meeting preceded the Brazilian Planning Schools Association (ANPUR) conference held in the same city.