Urban and Regional Policies

 

Master Programme in Spatial Planning

Academic year 2026-2027  (6 Credits)

LECTURES

00. Introduction
01. Policy challenges in contemporary urban areas (Part I) 
02. Policy challenges in contemporary urban areas (Part IIa) 
03. Policy challenges in contemporary urban areas (Part IIb) 
04. Policy challenges in contemporary urban areas (Part IIc)
05. Actors and policy-makers in urban policy (Part I)
06. Actors and policy-makers in urban policy (Part II)
07. The socio-spatial targets of urban policy (Part I)
08. The socio-spatial targets of urban policy (Part II)

 

READINGS

01. Extract from World Urbanization Prospects 2025, United Nations, New York, 2025.
02. Extract from Urban Europe: Statistics on cities, towns and suburbs, Eurostat, Luxembourg, 2016.
03. Hall P. (1993), “Forces Shaping Urban Europe”, Urban Studies, 30(6), 883-898.
04. Nijmana J., Wei Y.D., (2020), “Urban inequalities in the 21st century economy”, Applied Geography, 117, 102188.
05. Extract from Bulkley H., Cities and the Climate Change, Routledge, London-New York, 2013.
06. Extract from IPCC, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, United Nations, New York, 2022.

 

PROJECT WORK

Description of the project work (Part I)
Description of the project work (Part II)