Conference report
Julie Tian Miao, Andreas Hengstermann, Thomas Hartmann, Brent Pilkey · Town Planning Review · 2015
Almost 700 researchers across all planningrelated areas from Europe and beyond gathered to present, listen and discuss within seventeen parallel tracks, from 'planning in stressful places' to 'ethics and justice in planning'.Four related papers were presented in each session, followed by lively discussions about ideas, approaches and even connections between them.Traditionally, those paper sessions form the core of AESOP congresses, but additionally, several innovations have been introduced in Utrecht to the established AESOP conference procedures.In particular, pitch sessions were new for AESOP at this year's gathering: presenters had a time slot of five minutes each to present new research ideas or work in progress.Those sessions turned out to be very lively and appealing platforms, in which not only younger academics presented preliminary findings but also eminent professors, such as