1st WPSC 2001 – World Planning Schools Congress

Chang-Ho Yim, President of APSA, and Geraldo Costa of ANPUR, sign the Shanghai Statement at the closing ceremony of the World Planning Schools Congress, 15 July 2001.

Planning association executives at their meeting on the campus of Tongji University in Shanghai during the first World Planning Schools Congress, July 2001.

5th WPSC 2022 in Bali, the Presidents of Planning Schools Associations member of GPEAN introduce their association and vision about the GPEAN and planning schools in the future.

GPEAN meets at the Second World Planning Schools Congress, Mexico City July 2006

Participants of 1st World Planning Schools Congress in Shanghai 2001

Presidents of planning schools associations at 5th WPSC 2022 in Bali, Indonesia

1st WPSC – 2001

“Planning for Cities in the 21st Century:

Opportunities and Challenges”

The First WPSC aimed to cover a wide range of topics which would be faced by planning educators and the profession in a rapid urbanising world in the turn of the new millennium. The selection of Shanghai reflected the view shared by four regional associations that the influence of the World Congress would be greatest if it could be held in one of the fastest growing cities and regions, where both the opportunities and challenges were greatest, and thus the need for planning was most obvious too.

Helsinki – Finland

Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

Host and Sponsors

Host Institution: Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Sponsor Association: ACSP, AESOP, APSA and ANZAPS

Location and Date of Congress

July 14, 2001 – Shanghai, China