Program Overview
The PhD program in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy aims to empower students with analytical skills and research methods to investigate contemporary urban changes and their governance through planning, design, and policy-making. The program fosters a multidisciplinary approach, leveraging the research expertise of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) to explore sustainable and equitable urban development, advancements in planning practices, and innovative urban design and policy approaches.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The PhD programme in Urban Planning, Design and Policy (UPDP) aims to explore the significance and impact of contemporary urban changes and understand how these processes can be governed through planning, design, and policy-making activities. The program focuses on the transition towards new, more sustainable and equitable modes of urban development, advancements in planning practices, and potential innovations in traditional urban studies, urban design, and policy approaches.
Objectives:
The UPDP program aims to provide PhD students with analytical and interpretative tools, as well as research methods to advance research frontiers in the field of urban studies, spatial planning, urban design, urban policy, and governance.
Program Description:
- The program welcomes both foreign and Italian candidates.
- English is the official language of the program.
- The program leverages the rich research milieu of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU).
- The program focuses on territorial, social, economic, and institutional transformations in contemporary cities, discussing them as a complex of intertwined phenomena that require new governance, planning, and design approaches.
- The UPDP program offers a challenging environment with space for international debate, research, experimentation, and innovation.
Other:
- The program takes advantage of the rich research milieu of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU).
- The program is based on a multidisciplinary approach.
- The program offers a challenging environment with space for international debate, research, experimentation, and innovation.
- The program's handbook can be downloaded HERE.
