AESOP ANNUAL CONGRESS 2025

Session

RT_12 BEYOND THE PROCESS: DIFFICULTIES FOR THEORISATION WITHIN PLANNING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

9 Jul 2025, 16:30

25

Conveners

RT_12 BEYOND THE PROCESS: DIFFICULTIES FOR THEORISATION WITHIN PLANNING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

• Martin Sondermann (ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association)
• Christopher Maidment (University of Reading)

2043. BEYOND THE PROCESS: DIFFICULTIES FOR THEORISATION WITHIN PLANNING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE – (Hosted within track 10: Theories)

Christopher Maidment (University of Reading), Martin Sondermann (ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association)

09/07/2025, 16:30

RT 12 | Beyond the Process: Difficulties for theorisation within planning research and practice

Oral

This roundtable brings together contributors to the ARL Working Group; ‘Beyond the Process – Finding common ground for a discussion on planning’s substantial foundation’, to discuss the difficulties associated with grasping a common theoretical foundation for spatial planning.
Spatial planning activities often struggle for legitimacy in the face of populist politics, neoliberal forces and...