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Strategic Urban Planning and Policies: Managing Socio-Spatial Dynamics for Sustainable Cities

Master

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This programme focuses on how the interests and visions of diverse stakeholders shape, and in turn get shaped by, urban planning and policies.

Cities are complex, dynamic systems influenced by a myriad of stakeholders. Strategic planning is an approach that seeks to guide instead of control urban development. This programme will give you the qualifications to become an urban professional specialising in strategic urban planning and policy analysis. 

Strategic urban planning calls for diverse knowledge and skills among urban planners for stakeholder management, socio-spatial analysis and critical reflection of problems and solutions.  In this programme, you will examine the complex or ‘wicked’ problems that planners face and must address in planning practice.

At the end of this course, participants will have gained the qualifications necessary to become urban development professionals specialising in contemporary planning approaches. In addition, students can apply what they have learned by working on real cases in Rotterdam and worldwide.

Language

English

Title

Master of Science

Duration

11 months

ECTS credits

Accreditation

NVAO

Numerus Fixus

Tuition fee 2025/2026

€ 18,600

€ 18,600


Admission

Application requirements

Architecture Development Studies Geography Infrastructure Political Science Public Administration Sociology Urban Management Urban Planning Urban Studies Civil Engineering Economics Environmental studies Gender Studies International Relations Law Real estate

TOEFL - 90 IELTS - 6.5

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Tuition fees  
€ 18,600
€ 18,600
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Start date App. deadline EU/EEA App. deadline Non-EU/EEA
1 Sep '25 1 Jun '25 -

Contact

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Main address
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

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