The 2024 AESOP conference entitled “Game changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions” takes cue from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games to questions the global narrative of large events and internationalisation strategies, even more so when the ecological transition is at stake.

Our paper entitled “Mapping Territorial Fragilities, Cross-Border Cooperation and Resilience in Italian Border Areas. Insights from the ‘Italian Borderscapes After 2020’ Project” presented some early insights from the project and focused on the first comparative findings that emerged from the mapping and fieldwork activities.

The paper contributes to the track “BORDERS” chaired by Alois Humer, Thomas Perrin and Simin Yan. The track seeks to investigate planning practices that cross administrative borders of jurisdictions at various scales, ranging from the local to the supra-national and continental scale. These transboundary practices are examined from a spatial, institutional and comparative perspective, investigating governance arrangements, policy integration challenges, mechanisms for democratic control and participation, and spatial outcomes.