Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Urban and regional planning plays a key role in building a just, sustainable future. We take planning forward by educating skilled professionals, conducting high-impact research and working closely with both public and private partners.

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  NMBU's Department of Urban and Regional Planning constitutes a dynamic academic environment of students and researchers working to shape the society of the future. With cities growing at record speed, and a demand to redesign new land areas, there is an urgent need to steer development in a safe, viable and sustainable direction.
• Study with us

  • MSc Urban and Regional Planning (5-year)
  • PhD Society, Development and Planning
• Research

  Research centres and groups

  • SITRAP Centre for Integrated and Transdisciplinary Education in Planning (Centrte for Excellence in Education)
  • Centre for Landscape Democracy (CLAD)
  • Environmental Planning and Natural Resource Governance
  • Network for Mobility and Social Sustainability
  • Territorialization and Methods in Planning (TMP)
  • Urban Lab
  • Urban and Planning Philosophy
  • Urban Sustainability

  
  Research projects

  • Co-creating knowledge for local adaptation to climate change in least developed countries (COLOCAL)
  • Developing synergies between the bioeconomy and regional food systems for a sustainable future (SYNAGRI)
  • European Cities Against Segregation (ECASS)
  • Innovativ metodikk for besøksforvaltning i regionalt plan- og utviklingsarbeid
  • Jordvern i Frogn, Nesodden, Nordre Follo og Ås
  • Land-use change and changing windpower licensing: Process, Practices and Pressure (WINDGOV)
  • PlanCoast: Management and planning of property and rights in coastal zones
  • Planning for sustainable second-home development (SECPLAN)
  • Public Space in European Social Housing (PuSH)
  • Resource sharing in residential buildings: Innovative approaches to shared, circular mobility space solutions for sustainable consumption (RESHARE)
  • The social equality of Nature-based Solutions to urban heat stress
  • Twin Fjord

  
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  Universitetstunet 3
  Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
  1433 Ås
  
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