2025
31/07/2025
Third 2025 issue of the EURA journal Urban Research & Practice has been published. Now available Volume 18, Issue 3, August 2025. Read more and browse the EURA journal! Consider publishing with us by submitting an article! Visit Taylor & Francis Online.
23/07/2025
Car-free zones have become a new normal in many European cities. Cities like Paris, Milan, London and Oslo have restricted car-driving in the city centres to improve air quality, reduce congestion, and enhance urban amenities. Car-free zones are seen as a key means of reducing emission from transport and to reach climate neutrality by 2050.
15/07/2025
The EURA Working Group on Municipal Councillors in Europe is advancing its collaboration through joint research and teaching. A new survey of mayors is in preparation, alongside a first Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) held in June 2025 in Darmstadt with partners from five countries.
14/07/2025
During the EURA 2025 Annual Conference in Bristol, the General Assembly elected Prof. Ignazio Vinci (University of Palermo) as the new President of the association. We extend our deepest thanks to Prof. Filipe Teles (University of Aveiro) for his outstanding leadership over the past years. The current Governing Board was also re-elected, with its mandate extended for another four years.
24/06/2025
In spring 2024, in a New York conference room at the International Conference on Urban Affairs, academics put heads together and cogitated on the evolution of the EURA Conversation blog series. One result of that meet-up? A twin series of blogs, written by myself and my colleague from the University of Palermo, Dr Stefania Crobe, focusing on our shared passion: arts-based methods in urban research
24/06/2025
The paper titled "Regulating Urban Resilience: the need for interconnected standards and responsibilities for climate change resilience for the UK Urban areas", by Chris Medland and Jonathan Chenoweth won the EURA 2025 Emerging Scholar Award. Congratulations once again to the winners and thank you to all PhD and emerging researchers who submitted papers.
23/06/2025
On July 1, 15:00 the seventh online meeting of "Regeneration Talks". This is the seventh event of the EURA activity that is launched in the context of the Working Group on Urban Regeneration. Sixth appointment will focus on the Danish case and focus on the urban development planning in Denmark – the 'explosion' of informal and non-mandatory plans [...]
25/05/2025
Spatial and urban planning covers numerous diverse thematic areas. In this context, architectural issues, geographical issues, environmental and nature protection, cultural heritage protection, social objectives and responses to climate change are particularly noteworthy. The list of issues is long. Combining them, and jointly implementing the associated objectives, is a difficult challenge.
20/05/2025
Second 2025 issue of the EURA journal Urban Research & Practice has been published. Now available Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2025. Read more and browse the EURA journal! Consider publishing with us by submitting an article! Visit Taylor & Francis Online.
09/04/2025
We provide here a warm welcome to the EURA 2025 Conference to be held in Bristol, UK on 10-13 June 2025. The conference theme is ‘Creating healthy and sustainable cities’ and we are absolutely delighted with the response to the call for papers. Over 280 scholars have now registered for the conference, and the Local Organising Committee (LOC) is now working closely with the Co-Chairs of the nine tracks to schedule the various sessions. In addition to 19 pre-organised panels more than 230 papers will be delivered. This is a most encouraging response.
28/03/2025
On 15th March 2025 – it was a Saturday – 50,000 people quietly invaded Piazza del Popolo in Rome, a monumental square that has often witnessed key events within Italian political history. Called a ‘Square for Europe’, the gathering originated from the idea of Michele Serra, a columnist for a major national newspaper (La Repubblica), who claimed that a large mobilization of civil society was needed to contrast the repeated attacks, from different sides, on European values and identity. In his opening speech, Serra used a translation of the famous battle cry ‘Here we make Italy, or we die’ (‘Qui si fa l’Italia o si muore’), shouted by Giuseppe Garibaldi before a key battle during his successful campaign to unite the country in 1860, hence the title of this blogpost
18/03/2025
"Planning the data-informed city" - In the face of planetary urbanisation, the climate crisis, and the rapid advancement of technology, urban planners and designers have the opportunity to embrace data analytics embedded into urban planning and design to develop more informed strategies. In this context, identify and analyse a social and/or ecological vulnerability of a real city and develop an urban design or technology plan to help [...]
24/02/2025
Advice is sometimes offered that you should “reflect” upon what you have said or written. Such advice is often acknowledged but not necessarily enacted. In this particular Conversation, each of the editors has been interviewed, and I have encouraged them to reflect upon what we are doing – or trying to do – with the EURA Conversations blog. Without identifying any of the comments from a specific editor, this Conversation is a summation of where we think we are at, and how we might want to take the Conversation forward. A number of contributors to the EURA Conversations blog have been approached to respond to this piece. I would encourage all readers to respond as well. We, the editors, are merely the curators of YOUR blog...
19/02/2025
First 2025 issue of the EURA journal Urban Research & Practice has been published. Now available Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2025. Read more and browse the EURA journal! Consider publishing with us by submitting an article! Visit Taylor & Francis Online.
19/02/2025
Reminder! Deadline for applications: March 31st 2025! The Standing Group on Local Government and Politics (ECPR) and the European Urban Research Association (EURA) are happy to endorse the 2025 Summer School, organized and hosted by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Event dates: September 1st-4th, 2025.
27/01/2025
The late, legendary musician Bob Marley once said: “Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.” Had he still been alive in 2024, he might have wondered what is next for the things he held most dear in his homeland of Jamacia, one of the Small Island States left bitterly disappointed, and at risk, by the outcomes of COP29...
09/12/2024
With great enthusiasm and anticipation, the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture of the Yıldız Technical University welcomes you to Istanbul on July 7-11, 2025 for the 37th AESOP Annual Congress. We look forward to welcoming participants from across the globe to share insights, foster connections, and envision a shared future. The Call for Abstracts is Open!
20/11/2024
