Planning Practices in Cities and Regions, 7.5 ECTS
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Purpose and learning objectives Upon completion of this course you are expected to be able to critical study and analyse planning practices from different theoretical perspectives and present and discuss planning practices i cities and regions in an comparative and international perspective.
Content and teaching methods This course focuses on planning practices in cities and region in an international comparative perspective, partly through meetings with invited planning actors. To that end planning and policy agendas, institutional structures and normative concepts (such as sustainability, polycentricity, infills and territorial cohesion) and its applications will be analysed. Moreover, the external challenges and the response to these are dealt with, for example climate change, economic development, migration and social segregation. Invited planning actors share and analyse management and roles in the planning process and how they consider the above mentioned challenges, institutional structures and various policy objectives.
The course involves lecturers, seminars and exercises.
Area of interests: Human, Social and Political Sciences, and Law
Are you interested in human beings and society? How we function individually and together, what drives us, our learning processes, how rules and laws have been established, and how we interact with each other? If that is the case we have a lot to offer. This area of interest covers anything from Pedagogy, Psychology and Gender Studies, to Statistics, Political Science, Law and many other subjects. Their common denominator is the relation between human beings and society, independent analytical thinking and often an international perspective.
Subject
Urban and Regional Planning
Urban and Regional Planning is about shaping and structuring the future of society. Planners affect the structure of cities and urban life, the countryside and regional development, the economic situation and the environment, culture and population from social, economic and ecological perspectives. Planning takes place in the public and private sectors as well as within international organizations, such as EU and the UN.
The problems on which planners work require composite analyses. The need for such an approach increases with the increasing complexity of society. The problems are increasingly concerned with balancing different, sometimes contradictory, interests into functional and sustainable suggestions and proposals. Planning often takes place in the form of project work, where suggestions for plans are prepared in teams where different competences are represented.
Planning thus means determining the future while being aware of the fact that at the same time other possible futures are being prevented. It is therefore important to know how society has developed historically and how it works today within different areas, with regard to natural as well as economic and social conditions. A planner must have a broad general knowledge and the ability to merge information and knowledge from different specialist areas. A planner who is responsible for the planning process needs to have an overall view and an ability to see issues from multiple perspectives. For this purpose, there is ongoing basic and applied research where a number of different planning problems are analysed, ranging from individual suburban environments to international environmental issues.
Urban and regional planning may be studied as a three-year programme in the first cycle and in a two-year Master’s programme, or as single-subject courses. Do you want to have an impact on present and future societies? Then Urban and Regional Planning is the right choice!