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Urban Planning and Management

Planning and managing the development of contemporary cities is one of the major societal challenges all over the world today. The global spread of technology and economic activity continues to impact upon towns, cities and urban mega-regions. In short, we live in an 'urban society'.

<p>Planning and managing the development of contemporary cities is one of the major societal challenges all over the world today. The global spread of technology and economic activity continues to impact upon towns, cities and urban mega-regions. In short, we live in an 'urban society'.</p>

About Urban Planning and Management | Aalborg University

<h3>Urban society needs plans and visions</h3>
<p>The city must be seen as a complex physical, technical and social phenomenon linked to networks of both local anchoring and global spread. However, not all cities share the same fortune in terms of positive development. In an age of global transformation, cities are competing fiercely for companies, employees and investment. Cities linked to global networks of transportation, communication and flows of images may be today's winners, whereas cities outside the reach of such networks are running the risk of 'splintering' into layers of mobility and living spaces mainly regulated by economic powers. Such urban competition leads developers, politicians and planners to think about the particular identity of their individual cities in a global urban context.</p>
<p>These development trends mean that the 'urban society' needs plans, visions and guiding principles for intervention in this complex context. In order to increase the positive social, economic and environmental facets of the urban society and reduce the negative ones we must put forward well-informed analyses, realistic visions and soundinterdisciplinary solutions.</p>

<h3>Academic content</h3>
<p>The future of cities and urban regions concern all of us. Urban development and change play a key role in societal development all over the world. Urbanism and urban life is a primary mediating force in transforming economies, technologies, social interaction and the environment. Cities and urban regions encompass a complex mixture of social activities, innovation, flows, movement and networked technical infrastructures, and as such urbanism is a dynamic socio-technical phenomenon.</p>

About the semesters at Urban Planning and Management | Aalborg University

<p>Master’s Programme in Urban, Energy and Environmental Planning with specialisation in Urban Planning and Management at Aalborg University enables candidates to understand and cope with the challenges of urban development in the 21st century through a unique integration of engineering and social science. Managing the challenges of urban policy and planning in the global era requires an interdisciplinary approach that combines technical, social, economic, and environmental knowledge. The future development of cities and urban regions requires urban policy makers and planners with an understanding of global development trends as well as of local-regional contexts and identities. It takes imagination and creativity as well as solid socio-technical knowledge and skill to envision, plan, and manage urban transformations that underpin and support goals of economic, social, democratic and ecological development.</p>

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<h4>Internship</h4>
<p>At the 3rd semester of the M.Sc. programme in Urban Planning and Management at Aalborg University there are good possibilities of internship – in Denmark or abroad. You can work in an enterprise, a public institution or a NGO.</p>
<p>An Internship provide you with an opportunity to apply the theoretical insight and the methodological knowledge obtained during the 1st and 2nd semesters to a real life situation in a Danish or international setting.</p>
<p>The choice of internship is made on the basis of your interests. During the internship, you participate in the activities of an organisation and collect information for the project report. The project report is expected to have both a theoretical and empirical part relating to the actual experience of the internship.</p>
<h4>Examples of internships abroad</h4>
<ul>
<li>Melbourne, Australia: Planning of "gated communities" and shopping centres</li>
<li>Manukau City Council, New Zealand: Cultural heritage and planning in connection with urban planning in a municipality.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples of internships in Denmark</h4>
<ul>
<li>Green environment - Carl Bro, the Municipalities of Århus and Randers: Urban transformation of an old industrial area in Randers</li>
<li>The Northern Jutland Transport Company, Aalborg: Planning of public transport</li>
<li>The Municipality of Morsø: Strategy on heritage environments and urban planning as well as strategy for the future planning of the municipality.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Study abroad</h3>
<p>You can also choose to go on an exchange stay at a university abroad.</p>
<h4>Example of study stays abroad</h4>
<ul>
<li>University of Iceland, Reykjavik</li>
<li>Sheffield University, England</li>
<li>University of Melbourne, Australien</li>
<li>Delft University, Holland</li>
<li>University of Washington, Seattle, USA</li>
</ul>

<h3>Job and career</h3>
<p>Students who have graduated in the field of Urban Planning and Management at Aalborg University can seek employment within a broad and diverse range of fields ranging from private consulting firms, over local, regional and national administrations to research institutions throughout the world.</p>
<p>The unique interdisciplinary approach of the Masters programme, where engineering and social science theories and methodologies are combined and fused, offer our students a state-of-the-art solution oriented approach to the ever-changing and complex world of urban problems and challenges. The Masters Programme gives our graduates the necessary skills and competences to apply for and manage a wide range of different jobs – on a national as well as international level.</p>
<p>These include among others:</p>
<ul>
<li>Consultant in major international consulting companies</li>
<li>Urban planner and consultant in leading national and regional consulting firms</li>
<li>Planning consultants for NGO’s throughout the world</li>
<li>Urban planner for regional authorities</li>
<li>Urban planner for municipalities and local authorities</li>
<li>Advisory positions at a ministerial level</li>
<li>Research and teaching positions at university level.</li>
</ul>

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