Spatial Planning

What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?

The Master's Degree in Spatial Planning (SING) is inspired by the long Italian tradition of urban and territorial planning and addresses future issues related to the planning and design of cities and the sustainable development of territories.

The Course is ideal for recent graduates and for professionals who wish to advance their education or to direct their career towards urban and spatial planning with opportunities for employment in both the public and private sectors.

The Course constitutes the higher professional level of the Planner's university education, in continuity with the CdL in Urban Design for the City in Transition or with access from other CdLs subject to verification of entry competences.

The transversal competences of SING graduates can be spent in different areas ranging from the preservation and promotion of cultural heritage to the protection of ecosystem balances, from urban regeneration to the design of the smart city, from planning for renewable energy and sustainable mobility to European planning and the world of the Third Sector.

Delivered entirely in English, also thanks to the presence of students from numerous countries around the world, the Course offers an international training environment and promotes a global perspective that offers graduates further opportunities to enter the world of work in an international context.

What do you learn?

The course of study provides as much experimental experience as possible with thematic workshops (one for each year of the course: Planning Studio I and II), a workshop dedicated to landscape design (Landscape design Studio) and one to participatory practices in planning processes (Social geography and participatory practices), lectures, meetings with experts and public administrators, and internships in public offices, agencies and private enterprises.

In addition, the course includes other disciplines concerning Planning Theories, Geomatics, Urban and Regional Economics, Technological Design of Settlements, Landscape Ecology, as well as Energy Policies for the Territory and Sustainable Mobility Policies.

In summary, during the course you will be able to:

• Build a conceptual understanding of essential spatial planning theories and apply qualitative and quantitative techniques, such as GIS analysis and participatory mapping, as well as exclusive skills in strategic environmental assessment (SEA);
• Develop an interdisciplinary approach to spatial planning and new relational skills based on group problem-solving activities and peer teaching with a ‘learning by doing’ approach;
• Obtain an accredited degree with QR Certification - Quality Recognition by AESOP (Assosiation of European Schools of Planning).

What can you do with it?

The Master's Degree in Spatial Planning takes on the professional qualification of Territorial Planner, in accordance with Presidential Decree 328/2001, following the State Examination and enrolment in the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators, section A.

The Territorial Planner works both as a freelance professional and in public institutions or private and third sector entities in the field of urban and territorial transformations, infrastructures and energy policies, landscape and environment as well as in the field of urban policies.

The spatial planner can work as a policy maker, consultant or project manager for government, consulting companies, project developers or research institutes, as well as increasingly in international planning.

The internship period takes place in organisations and institutions of different levels and allows students to explore various fields of planning, providing an important link to the world of work.