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| Company type | Network of European universities |
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| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder | Louis Albrechts |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Spatial development and planning, Town planning |
Key people | Frank Moulaert, Flavia Martinelli, Arantxa Rodriguez, AbdelIllah Hamdouch |
| Website | https://esdp-network.net/ |
The European Spatial Development Planning or ESDP-Network seeks to promote education, research and professional training in spatial planning across European countries, in collaboration with many partners in other regions of the world. To this purpose it considers planning as a process and a change agenda.[1]
Presently coordinated by Frank Moulaert at Global Urban Research Unit, Newcastle University, the network coordinates a number of student and staff mobility programmes involving various partner institutions in a number of European countries. The existing structure is a merger of the Spatial Development Planning network established by Louis Albrechts at the University of Leuven, Belgium in 1987 and that built around the European Town planning by Richard Williams at Newcastle University in the 1990s. The overlaps between both networks shows a natural basis for their integration.