MASTER IN

URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

Staff

Artur Rosa Pires (arp@ua.pt)Eduardo Anselmo Castro (ecastro@ua.pt) Jorge Carvalho (jcarvalho@ua.pt)José Manuel Martins (jmm@ua.pt)Elisabete Figueiredo (elisa@ua.pt)Carlos Rodrigues (cjose@ua.pt)Paulo Silva (paulosilva@ua.pt)José Carlos Mota (jcmota@ua.pt) João Marques (jjmarques@ua.pt)Gonçalo Santinha (g.santinha@ua.pt) João Margalha (jmargalhe@ua.pt) Frederico Moura Sá (fredericomsa@ua.pt) Rui Loza (f774@ua.pt)

International networks

The Aveiro Urban and Regional Planning school is a founding member of AESOP- Association of Europe-an Schools of Planning (http://www.aesop-planning.com/). It has a long experience in promo-ting the international exchange of students with more than a dozen of European higher education instiotutions, namely in the Framework of ERASMUS Programme.

Contacts

Responsible of the MSc Dr. José Manuel Martins (email jmm@ua.pt e telefone 234 372 590)Administrative Support Mr. Pedro Rui Jesus (email pedro.rui@ua.pt and tlf. 234 372 489)

The University of Aveiro has a long tradition (20 years) in urban and regional planning related educa-tion, being, actually, a pioneer in Portugal. It offers a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning built on this long tradition and the pioneering role. The MSc has been created having as basis, on the one hand, the changes in the degree in Urban and Regional Planning provoked by the Bologna process, and, on the other hand, the creation of a degree in Public Administration at the Department of Social, Law and Political Sciences, with a minor in Spatial Planning. The MSc aims to provide more specialised education to those students who have a degree in spatial planning related domains, as well as to those who want to increase their competences in the fiels of spatial planning.

Course Structure

Degree type MasterProgramme running since 2007/08Duration 2 yearsScientific area Urban and Regional PlanningDepartament(s) Department of Social, Legal and Political SciencesTaught at Campus Universitário de Santiago, AveiroNumber of Vacancies 45Subscriptions From 19th July to 30th JulyObservations Reg. nº: R/B - Cr 49/2007 Schedule thursdays and fridays, allowing to do so on a weekly day available at 50%Annual Fee 949 Euros Entrance Fee 10 Euros

Objectives

In general terms, the MSc aims to provide students with a spatial planning culture comprising the following three dimensions: capacity to intervene in actual urban and regional development situations; knowledge about the theoretical and conceptual evolution in the domain of urban and regional planning, as well as about the evolution of planning policy and practice at the international level; capacity to develop a critical and proactive approach towards the society and the territory.Accordingly, the MSc allows for facilitating the students’ access to solid theoretical, conceptual and instrumental basis, which emerges as a crucial means to analyze, evaluate, and critically unders-tand the territory, in its physical, environmental,

social, economic and political dimensions, as well as to intervene upon the dynamics of territorial change. Students will gain competences in:- identifying the needs of the present and future communities, recognising the opportunities, the determinants, the challenges and the effects of following given courses of action and/or develop-ment trajectories;- adopting and/or building territorial organization models and development strategies supporting policy options and mirroring a diversity of perspec-tives and interests;- partricipating in multicultural debates on ideas, concepts, principles and development models;- assimilating and valuing the ethics of the planning profession.

Condições de acesso

Applicants are holders of a Graduation Degree in Spatial Planning, Public Administration, Geogra-phy, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Econo-mics, Sociology and Political Science.

How to apply

Candidates for student exchange programmes like ERASMUS, CAMPUS EUROPAE, ECIU Exchanges, Bilateral Exchanges, Santander Scholarship Programme etc., should make their applications via the International Office (http://www.ua.pt/gri/PageImage.aspx?id=8793)

Study Progamme

1 year | 1 semesterUrban FormsStrategic Territorial PlanningEnvironmental Systems and SustainabilityPlanning Support TechniquesOption I Regional and Local Administration and Power Relations Development and Integrated Planning of Tourist Destinations Economics and Territory Public Urban Space Biophysical Structure and Environment Europeanization of Political and Administrative Systems History of Urbanism Sociology and Economics of Sustainable Development Tourism and Economic Development1 year | 2 semesterMobility PlanningEnvironment and Development StrategiesSoci-Economic and Territorial DynamicsUrban PlanningPlanning Systems and Policies2 year | 1 semesterLegislation and Urban AdministrationTerritory, Regional Policies and InovationDissertation / Project / PlacementElectrive II Knowledge, Inovation and Technology Environmental Law and Urbanism e-Planning Governance, Democracy and Globalisation Population Policies Urban Rehabilitation Policies Sustainable Development Policices2 year | 2 semesterDissertation / Project / Placement

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