Are you passionate about planning and keen to explore the roots of the planning discipline? Do you want to understand how planning ideas evolved, circulated and moved through time and space? Are you eager to grasp the collective "institutional memories", "the oral histories" of those key individuals who have first-hand knowledge of the intellectual Evolution of Planning Thought? Are you interested in engaging with the first generation of planners to discuss their planning thoughts and ideas? contemporary salience? If yes, then you should participate in the Evolution of Planning Thought Lecture Series.

This Lecture Series unpacks how planners developed theories and conceptual tools, how these shaped the development of practice, how planners organised themselves at an international and global scale, and the conceptual, institutional and practical lacuna that remain to be filled. Every lecture starts from a personal perspective to tell a much broader story about the Evolution of Planning Thought. The subsequent podium discussion provides a unique space to reflect on where we are as planners, how we have got there and where we are going as a community into the future. Each lecture concludes with a social gathering, allowing less formal discussions with highly respected planners of the first generation.

Speakers:

• John FRIEDMANN
  Em.Prof. of Community & Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA
• Patsy HEALEY
  Em.Prof. of Town & Country Planning, Newcastle University, GB
• Gerhard SCHIMAK
  Hon.Prof. of Regional Planning & Development, Vienna University of Technology, AT
• Klaus KUNZMANN
  Em.Prof. of European Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund, DE
• John FORESTER
  Prof. of City & Regional Planning, Cornell University, New York, US

Host:
Dr. Beatrix HASELSBERGER
Vienna University of Technology, AT