Duration

2 years

Starting Date

September

Tuition Fee

from €161 to €3,761

Location

Turin, Italy

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Language

English

About the program

The activities in the first semester are designed to give students a solid background in areas closely related to the formulation of local planning policies: regulatory issues associated with planning activities, urban and regional geography, sociology of the environment, history of territorial heritage. In the second semester students will simulate a process for drawing up a plan at the local level, in addition to completing their knowledge in subject areas closely related to the formulation of planning tools, such as transport planning, and gaining a solid understanding of the role of the European Union in urban and territorial policies.

Career opportunities  

The Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning programme at Politecnico di Torino forms a ” planner ” with skills which allow him to assume a role of coordinating project teams engaged in territorial and urban planning, landscape planning activities and development of strategies, policies and projects of urban and territorial transformations. 

This planner is able to cooperate with experts in diverse disciplines to address the issues of planning at different scales, with a particular attention to the centrality of the current environmental or sustainability issues – eg. energy question – and issues related to landscape. 

He/she is able to develop strategies, policies and projects of urban and territorial transformations that have at its center a proper use of local resources and to involve concerned stakeholders (institutional, economic, social ), with the ability to interact with non-experts people too, stimulating their participation.

Programme Structure

The UN New Urban Agenda has recently addressed the contemporary social, economic and environmental transformations that are challenging our world. This Master of Science provides training for spatial planners, able to solve complex problems related to the present and the future of cities and territories.

The programme offers a combination of teaching units, to provide knowledge and analytical skills in several disciplines, and multidisciplinary cross-curricular studios that focus around case studies, with the aim of learning by doing to formulate and assess the implementation of spatial policies, strategies, programmes, plans, and projects.

The programme offers two curricula: 

  • Urban and Regional Planning (in Italian) 
  • Planning for the Global Urban Agenda (in English)

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