ISOCARP World Planning Congress

ISOCARP Congresses rally a fine sample of urban and regional planners from across the globe and provide a unique platform for dialogue with decision-makers and other urban and planning stakeholders, both from the Global South and the Global North. How to unlock and build back better our cities and communities? The new planning vaccine needs to enable innovative ideas and strategies to achieve more sustainable territories and implement urban green deals. We live in exceptional times, of which .. continue reading the "Covid shock of 2020" is only the most recent symptom. Cities and nations worldwide have been grappling with appalling socio-economic inequalities, failing infrastructure, and the prospect of climate catastrophe for a long while. Against a future of more pandemics, ecosystem meltdown, and social unrest, there is only one remedy – planning better, safer, fairer cities. The main idea associated with the 57th ISOCARP World Planning Congress theme is to unlock our minds and provide planning advocates and practitioners a fresh, new start.