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📥 AESOP TG Small Towns Lecture Series - Programm 2025

Small Towns in Focus

Multi-dimensional perspectives on today’s challenges  

 

 

 

Lecture Series : SMALL TOWNS IN FOCUS

 

 

Together with European partners and members of the thematic group Small Towns, Hélène Roth and Hélène Mainet co-organize a new lecture series during the autumn-winter semester 2025-2026. It addresses researchers, students and practitioners alike.

This lecture series explores current research and practices relating to the development of small and medium-sized towns in selected European countries. It discusses ongoing spatial dynamics, ranging from small neighbourhoods and inner cities to regional and national perspectives. These dynamics are closely linked to political debates and planning strategies in the relevant countries, as well as to the wider European context.

Small towns are not only peripheral -both geographically and mentally- but also represent strategic stepping stones for large-scale spatial issues and future development challenges. This applies to the quality of services in regions undergoing demographic change and housing provision in both metropolitan areas and decentralised regions. Small and medium-sized towns are therefore confronted with questions of adaptability and renewal in existing settlement areas, as well as questions of innovation. We explore how current and future planning cultures can be inspired by small towns and what lessons can be learned from the experiences of various European towns. This lecture series brings together scholars and experts from a variety of disciplines across Europe.

 
This European lecture series is organized by Thematic Group Small Towns of the Association of European Schools of Planning. It brings together scholars and experts from a variety of disciplines across Europe.
 

Participation is online (Webex) via the following link: https://b-tu.webex.com/b-tu/j.php?MTID=mba9e62808e998103be257130dd601ea2

 

AESOP TG Small Towns Lecture Series - Programm 2025