Memoranda of Understanding
Government of Belize
On 9 Nov. 2008 ISOCARP signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Belize (represented by the project development company) and witnessed by UNIDO on co-operation for developing "The Tourism Resort of the Future".
ISOCARP will be a strategic knowledge partner to the project, especially for the tasks of Master Plan and Business Plan.
1st row (seated): ISOCARP-President Pierre Laconte, Ambassador of Belize Alexander Piletsky
2nd row (standing): ISOCARP Vice-President Ismael Fernandez Meja, Mrs. Lucia Piletsky, Counselor Asim Uensal, Investor Mikhail Moshnogorskiy, Dr. Carlos E. Chanduvi-Suarez from UNIDO, ISOCARP Treasurer Manfred Schrenk.
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In 2008 ISOCARP also signed Memoranda of Understanding with
AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning), and
IFHP (International Federation of Housing and Planning).
AESOP
ISOCARP and AESOP have been in a long time relation. Joint seminars have been held in the previous years (Monte Vérita, Visby and Genua).
A logic next step was to intensify the relation.
Both Presidents - Peter Ache (AESOP) and Pierre Laconte (ISOCARP) signed recently a Memorandum of Understanding.
With Zeynep Enlil on board of the ISOCARP Executive Committee, who is at the same time a Council Member of AESOP, future joint activities are under construction (ISOCARP NET, August 2008)
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IFHP
On 3rd June 2008, during the IFHP’s annual Conference in Liverpool, a Memorandum of Understanding was also signed between IFHP and ISOCARP.
The ceremony took place at a small lunch arranged by John Zetter, a member of both organisations and Past Vice President of ISOCARP.
The signing is significant event taking into consideration the background of both societies.
Joint history
In 1913 at the initiative of Ebenezer Howard, distinguished for his advocacy of Garden Cities, the IFHP was founded. It was ahead of its time in linking together housing and planning and appealing to a broadly-based membership interested in the two topics, rather than having any particular professional affiliation. Towards the year 1965, a group of professional planners with a clear focus on practising planners started a Standing Committee within IFHP itself.
In 1965, this group separated from IFHP and the founding of ISOCARP was was a fact. Its first President: Prof. Sam van Embden
TCPA
The ISOCARP-IFHP signing was hosted by the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) the first NGO established in the planning field. Founded in the United Kingdom in 1898, also by Ebenezer Howard, the TCPA aims to embrace and promote his garden city legacy in terms of promoting sustainable housing provided through an effective, democratic planning system. To this end, the Chief Executive of the TCPA attended the lunch, together with the President of the Royal Town Planning Institute, the UK representative body for town planners, with over 20,000 members.
Collaboration
The Memorandum enforces the further collaboration by opening the communication between IFHP and ISOCARP and informing each other of the events and activities. When appropriate the counterpart organisation will be officially present at the main events of the organisation.
In fact this type of cooperation had already begun in the preceding days, when Pierre Laconte the ISOCARP President acted as Rapporteur at the IFHP Conference.
Signing the Memorandum on behalf of ISOCARP is Pierre Laconte from Belgium and on behalf of IFHP its Spanish President, Francesc Ventura.
ISOCARP furthermore has Memoranda of Understanding with the following bodies:
- IFLA - International Federation of Landscape Architects
- IAIA - International Association for Impact Assessment
- Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC)
- TOPOS Magazines, Germany
- Routledge Publishers, United Kingdom
- Scape Magazines, The Netherlands