SPATIAL PLANNING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Coordinator: Prof. Alessandro Balducci
The PhD Program in Spatial Planning and Urban Development is addressed to foreign and Italian students and is fully taught in English.
The program is focused upon research, and is intended to educate planners able to establish a dialogue with the experiences of the best European and International PhD programs in planning, urban policies and design, urban studies.
The approach of the PhD Program in Spatial Planning and Urban Development is inter-disciplinary and it is based upon the specific approach of Polytechnic to design and territorial analysis.
The organisation of the PhD program is based upon some introductory courses, regarding methodological aspects and core themes, and some design international workshops. Some courses are also offered to the other PhD program in Planning in the same Department. The new PhD Program will take advantage of the close cooperation within the same Department with two other PhD programmes in Architectural and Urban Design and in Preservation of the Architectural Heritage.
The courses and workshops are focused on three main themes:
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cities in globalisation
The processes of radical transformation of contemporary cities will be explored through a comparative approach, and with a specific attention to new global developing cities and to European cities. The main issues addressed will be the social, economic and territorial transformations that have been taking place in cities in the last two decades as a consequence of globalisation processes; the governance problems in the evolving cities; the economic and technological change they are experiencing.
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planning theory
Different planning fields will be explored, through a critical and comparative approach. The main issues addressed will be: paradigms, traditions and innovation in planning theory; spatial and land use planning, and the relationship with citizenship and justice; comparative studies about planning systems; relationship between planning theory and practice; visioning and strategic dimensions in planning, policies and projects.
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urban and territorial policies
Sector policies, and their relationship with the problems of governance and government will be analysed using a comparative approach. Some of the policies analysed will be: welfare and cohesion, land use, mobility and infrastructures, environmental quality, housing.
The program has a strong international orientation and is aimed at meeting the demand for researchers skilled in analytical approaches to urban problems, as well as in planning, management and implementation, of urban policies.
Doctors with such profile could be employed by Italian and International academic institutions, public bodies and research centres.
Cooperation agreements will be activated with foreign Universities, research centres and institutions, using networks already existing between Architecture and Planning Department and other academic and non academic institutions. Agreements for the organisation of International Workshop, students exchange and research projects will be managed.
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