Our mission

Our mission is to bring together knowledge and ideas from the international planning community through our interactive knowledge and communication platform, to shape the future of spatial development and to ensure the sustainable development of spatial structures within Europe and beyond.

Who we are

The international knowledge and communication platform

We believe that many of today's challenges have spatial impacts and require international and cooperative approaches. For this purpose, this interactive knowledge and communication platform provides access to the Academy’s work internationally and serves as an information, knowledge and exchange platform for spatial planning professionals.

Through a holistic approach, we integrate environmental, social and economic objectives and have an advisory influence on territorial development and spatial planning.

OUR VISION is to become a European think tank for sustainable spatial development.

For shaping a better future.

The Academy

Latest News

04/10/2023

New article "Competitive location policy" in our Compendium

The ongoing economic globalisation is resulting in new challenges for a competitive location policy.

02/10/2023

Major change to the planning system in Poland

On 24 September 2023, a major change to the planning system in Poland, passed by Parliament on 7 July 2023, came into force.

27/09/2023

arl-international.com is turning two!

Over the past year, a lot has happened on ARL’s Knowledge and Communication Platform.

26/09/2023

Call for a Special Issue for the journal Digital Geography and Society

Refusal and the Computational City - From (de)coding the machine to (en)coding care

22/09/2023

AlpPlan at DKG‘23

At the German Congress of Geography (DKG’23) in Frankfurt am Main (DE), Hubert Job and Marco Pütz hosted an AlpPlan thematic session with insights and discussions around the implications of climate change and energy transition for Alpine spatial planning.

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Expert Circle

One of the ARL’s unique features is its large network of highly qualified experts. We are now making this network even more international and even more visible by launching our Expert Circle. Want to know who the experts are on certain topics? Who is doing research where and on what issues? Which planning professionals have valuable experience in which areas?

The platform enables professionals in our network to be filtered by topic, profession, country and regional expertise. Find interesting people you would like to work and exchange ideas with.

It’s very easy, try it out!