Master in Regional and Urban Planning

Year 1

1st Semester

• Soci-economic And Territorial Dynamics
• Strategic Territorial Planning
• Environmental Systems And Sustainability

2nd Semester

• Planning Support Techniques
• Urban Planning
• Planning Systems And Policies

Year 2

1st Semester

Legislation And Urban Administration

Our goal is, therefore, to equip students with the following competences:

• the ability to identify the communities’ current and future needs and acknowledge the opportunities, effects, constraints and demands involved when undertaking specific courses of action and /or developmental strategies;
• the capacity to adopt and /or build models of territorial organisation and development strategies so as to substantiate intervention choices that take into account the diversity of perspectives and choices and benefit both individual interests or those of the community as a whole;
• the capacity to engage in multicultural dialogue about ideas, concepts, principles, and models of development and territorial planning;
• the ability to integrate and value the professional ethical principles associated with territorial planning of the territory.

Skills achieved with this master program allow students to intervene in many areas related with spatial planning.

In professional terms, the public sector has a very relevant role in regional and urban planning. Among public administration's entities one can name Regional Development Coordination Commissions (CCDR), Municipalities and several public institutes. But also in the private sector, companies tend to include more skilled professionals from regional and urban planning in their working teams.

Multi disciplinary profile of this master program allows future professionals to increase their field of intervention, not "merely" dedicated to produce plans. More specialized tasks, important for decision-making, on fields like demography or social-economy are just some of the examples.