The University of Aveiro in Portugal offers a 2-year Master's in Urban and Regional Planning built on the university's 30-year tradition in related education. The program aims to provide specialized education to students with degrees in spatial planning or those wanting to increase their skills in the field. Students take courses in the first year on topics like urban forms, environmental systems, and planning techniques, and can choose options in tourism or public space. In the second year, students focus on a dissertation/project and take courses in legislation, regional policies, and population or urban rehabilitation policies. The program is part of a network of European planning schools and offers international exchange opportunities.

1. department of social, political
and territorial sciences
university
of aveiro
MASTER IN
URBAN AND
REGIONAL
PLANNING
2016/2017 EDITION

2. The University of Aveiro has a long tradition (30 years) in urban and regional
planning related education, 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 competenc-
es in the fiels of spatial planning.
Course Structure
Degree type Master
Programme running since 2007/08
Duration 2 years
Schedule thursdays and fridays, allowing to do
so on a weekly day available at 50%
Scientific area Urban and Regional Planning
department Social, Political and Territorial
Sciences
Taught at Campus Universitário de Santiago,
Aveiro
Number of Vacancies 45
Subscriptions
phase 1 - from 18th to 29th April
phase 2 - from 18th July to 12nd August
phase 3 - from 26th to 30th September
Observations Reg. nº: R/B - Cr 49/2007
Entrance fee 20€
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 understand 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 opportuni-
ties, the determinants, the challenges and the
effects of following given courses of action
and/or development trajectories;
- adopting and/or building territorial organiza-
tion models and development strategies
supporting policy options and mirroring a
diversity of perspectives and interests;
- participating in multicultural debates on
ideas, concepts, principles and development
models;
- assimilating and valuing the ethics of the
planning profession.
Access conditions
Applicants are holders of a Graduation Degree in
Spatial Planning, Public Administration,
Geography, Architecture, Landscape Architec-
ture, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineer-
ing, Economics, Sociology and Political Science.
How to apply
Candidates for student exchange programmes
like ERASMUS, CAMPUS EUROPAE, ECIU Exchang-
es, Bilateral Exchanges, Santander Scholarship
Programme etc., should make their applications
via the International Office (http://ww-
w.ua.pt/gri/PageImage.aspx?id=8793).
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Study Programme
1st year | 1st semester
Urban Forms
Strategic Territorial Planning
Environmental Systems and Sustainability
Planning Support Techniques
Option I
Development and Integrated Planning of Tourist Destinations
Public Urban Space
History of Urbanism
Sociology and Economics of Sustainable Development
Tourism and Economic Development
1st year | 2nd semester
Mobility Planning
Environment and Development Strategies
Soci-Economic and Territorial Dynamics
Urban Planning
Planning Systems and Policies
2nd year | 1st semester
Legislation and Urban Administration
Territory, Regional Policies and Inovation
Dissertation / Project / Placement
Option II
Population Policies
Urban Rehabilitation Policies
2nd year | 2nd semester
Dissertation / Project / Placement

3. Staff
Artur Rosa Pires (arp@ua.pt)
Eduardo Anselmo Castro (ecastro@ua.pt)
Maria Luís Pinto (mluis pinto@ua.pt)
José Manuel Martins (jmm@ua.pt)
Elisabete Figueiredo (elisa@ua.pt)
Cristina Sousa Gomes (mcgomes@ua.pt)
Carlos Rodrigues (cjose@ua.pt)
Paulo Silva (paulosilva@ua.pt)
João Marques (jjmarques@ua.pt)
Fernando Nogueira (fnogueira@ua.pt)
José Carlos Mota (jcmota@ua.pt)
Gonçalo Santinha (g.santinha@ua.pt)
Frederico Moura Sá (fredericomsa@ua.pt)
International networks
The Aveiro Urban and Regional Planning
school is a founding member of AESOP-
Association of European Schools of Planning
(http://www.aesop-planning.com).
It has a long experience in promoting 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
José Carlos Mota
(jcmota@ua.pt | T. 234 372 461)
Administrative Support
Sandra Bastos
(sandra.bastos@ua.pt | T. 234 372 501)