The 57th ISOCARP World Planning Congress on the theme "Planning Unlocked: New Times, Better Places, Stronger Communities" was successfully celebrated on November 8-11, 2021. A two-day Virtual Pre-Congress preceded the in-person Congress on October 28-29 and hosted only fully online sessions.
The hybrid format made this year's Congress unique. It provided both a safe in-person gathering of city and regional planners in Doha, Qatar, and an online platform to join the virtual sessions from all over the world. The programme included a total of 53 sessions, workshops, and social events with more than 280 papers and case studies and was attended by 650 registered delegates, 386 of which were in-person participants.
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The congress includes 5 tracks. The theme of each track is conceptualised to stimulate unlocking thinking on what planning is and may become. The aim is to open up broader topics and set of issues and to approach innovatively towards the presented papers and case studies.
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Klaus Kunzmann Jean Monnet Profesor | Eleanor Mohammed President of Commonwealth Association of Planners | Ibrahim Jaidah Group CEO at | Caroline Bos Co-founder | Helle Soholt Founding Partner and |
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