Strategic Urban and Regional Planning

Aim

On completion of the course, the student should be able to

• describe and explain key concepts in urban and regional planning
• critically examine and analyse planning theories and planning practices
• explain how digitalisation, urbanisation, climate change globalisation and social equality are key challenges for strategic urban and regional planning
• apply models and theories for management, organisation and steering of projects
• manage geographical information for spatial analysis
• demonstrate academic writing competence by applying rules for citations and references
• explain the meaning and consequences of plagiarism

Content

The course's starting point is to introduce urban and regional planning as a theoretical topic and how it relates to planning practices. This course introduces three main tracks; (1) how strategic urban and regional planning relates to challenges such as climate change, digitalisation, urbanisation globalization and social equality and also how it contributes to spatial patterns and changes at a local, regional, national and global level; (2) how projects function as a form of work and how projects can be planned and managed with the help of different methods and tools in urban and regional planning; (3) introduce fundamental planning tools such as GIS. The course also addresses the planner's role in decision making, working methods and approaches in strategic planning. Furthermore, the course introduces scientific discussion forms and critically examines academic literature. In the course, students also study the significance of an academic approach and apply fundamental rules for academic references and citations.