AESOP ANNUAL CONGRESS 2025

Session

T_04 GOVERNANCE (O)

T4_O

11 Jul 2025, 11:00

A0-04 (ONLINE)

Conveners

T_04 GOVERNANCE (O): Governance

• ELISA PRIVITERA (University of Toronto Scarborough)

1084. Values-driven development? Environmental regulation and planning for development in the UK

Dr Emma Street (University of Reading), Mr Victor Nicholls (University of Reading)

11/07/2025, 11:00

Track 14 | ETHICS, VALUES AND PLANNING

Oral

The planning project has always been perceived as values-driven as result of the profession’s claimed ability to act in the Public Interest. Ethical matters have received significant scholarly attention and are enshrined in codes of practice such as professional charters. Yet, in countries such as the UK, the modus operandi of planning has changed profoundly in the last decade. Research...

1323. Exploring the Future of Metropolitan Governance: Metropolitan Management and Regional Development in Decentralized Indonesia

Hisako Kobayashi

11/07/2025, 11:10

Track 04 | GOVERNANCE

Oral

This research aims to explore appropriate metropolitan management mechanisms through the analysis of Indonesian cases. Indonesia has experienced rapid urbanization over the past few decades. Before the turn of the century, nearly 60% of Indonesia's population still lived in rural areas. However, today, the urban and rural population ratios have completely reversed. By 2023, the urban...

1281. Participatory Community Planning and Collaborative Governance in the Post-Growth Era: A Case Study of the Nanning Love-U Garden Network in China

Ms luqiao zheng (Tongji University), Mr zichao xiong (Shanghai Urbspace Architectural Design Consultants Co., Ltd.)

11/07/2025, 11:20

Track 04 | GOVERNANCE

Oral

Many cities in the world today are facing the slowdown in economic growth, the reduction in fiscal revenue, and the resulting challenges in public space governance. With the slowdown in China's economic growth, urban construction has also entered the stock regeneration era from incremental development. Community planning and community regeneration based on the built environment require the...

747. Rural Revitalization Beyond Administrative Boundaries: A Case Study of Villages Surrounding Taihu Lake, China

Ms Yuhang Rao (Department of Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai)

11/07/2025, 11:30

Track 04 | GOVERNANCE

Oral

Rural development, aimed at reducing the disparities between urban and rural areas, remains a significant global challenge under climate change, land conflicts, food insecurity, and environmental degradation. UN-Habitat has proposed enhancing urban-rural linkages as a means to address this issue. In China, rural revitalization has been promoted as a national strategy through enhancing the flow...

792. Energy Transition and Community Engagement: The case of NSW, Australia

Dr Sanaz Alian (University of New England)

11/07/2025, 11:40

Track 04 | GOVERNANCE

Oral

Using renewable energy sources is not a new phenomenon in Australia. In 2023, 39.4% of the country’s total electricity generation came from renewable energy sources with NSW the highest user of renewables in Australian states in terms of megawatts (Clean Energy Council, 2024). Using more renewable sources for energy became a priority in Australia and many other parties involved in “The Paris...

1064. Learning from the social innovation-institution relationship. An ethnographic study in the Veneto Region

Naomi Pedri Stocco (IUAV University of Venice), Martina Bovo (IUAV University of Venice), Prof. Elena Ostanel (IUAV University of Venice)

11/07/2025, 11:50

Track 04 | GOVERNANCE

Oral

Social innovation has long been hailed for its potential to tackle urgent social and economic challenges, particularly in academic and policy circles. It is seen as a means of enhancing local welfare by generating public goods and services while promoting collective empowerment. From a planning perspective, social innovation is viewed as a transformative tool capable of reshaping social...

1762. Is the polycrisis finally leading to the privatization of risks? Evolving understandings of state responsibilities facing disasters in Italy.

Prof. Alessandro Coppola (DAStU, Politecnico di Milano), Dr Gloria Pessina (DAStU, Politecnico di Milano)

11/07/2025, 12:00

Track 12 | DISASTER-RESILIENT PLANNING

Oral

Drawing on studies by complexity theorists, sociologists, historians and political ecologists, the paper proposes a critical and evolutional understanding (poly)crises (e.g. floods, fires, earthquakes, environmental contamination) at the intersection with socio-territorial inequalities in the global society of risk. Crises and disasters are hence critically analyzed in their socio-political...

1126. Zero Net Land Take Policy Mapping: A Multi-Level Analysis in the Context of Italy and Emilia-Romagna

Iuliia Kozlova (University of Bologna)

11/07/2025, 12:10

Track 04 | GOVERNANCE

Oral

The Zero Net Land Take (ZNLT) policy has emerged as a cornerstone of sustainable urban planning, aiming to balance urban development with land conservation by 2050. Rooted in the EU Soil Strategy for 2030 and the Biodiversity Strategy, these policies emphasize land protection and renaturalization but allow for variability in member state implementation. This study provides a comprehensive...

1046. The proposed new spatial planning law in Italy: A critical reflection on its structure, content, and objectives in times of crisis

Dr Pierpaolo Cicconi (School of Architecture and Design - SAAD, University of Camerino, Unicam)

11/07/2025, 12:20

Track 02 | PLANNING AND LAW

Oral

The paper presents a reflection on the proposed reform of the national urban planning law (Law 1150/1942), developed by the Italian National Institute of Urban Planning (INU, 2022) and titled 'Law of Fundamental Principles and General Rules for Land Governance and Planning’. This proposal is the result of a process initiated during the INU congress in 2022 to integrate contributions from the...