Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
Master in Spatial Planning and Urban Project
Porto, Portugal
Master degree
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English, Portuguese
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 4,000
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Key Summary
Objectives
The Programme, shared by the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Architecture, both from the University of Porto, benefits from the sharing experience in previous years between the two institutions and aims to provide students a theoretical and practical experience for a deeper professional practice, beyond international borders, providing a variety of topics in the areas of planning, management, and urban policy in medium and large agglomerations. Without losing its urban, suburban, or interurban Portuguese context, the main themes offered by the Programme, will be guided to the international debate on the environmental, social, and economic field. In this sense, the Programme will follow methods of studying and understanding national urban planning issues and, by analogy, distinguished international cases.
Fields of Specialization
At a high scientific level, the course aims at his specialization: to improve professional training leading to the preparation of students as highly skilled technicians in the field of urban and environmental issues; to adjust the knowledge and training to the level of market requirements in specific work Portugal and the European Union; to promote in the academic or professional field advanced skills for technological progress, for social and cultural knowledge; to enlarge knowledge in the contemporary spatial dynamics area, and the theories and planning systems; to strengthen the capacity for critics, analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing new and complex ideas in the field of technical and scientific study; to assure the appropriate academic training requirements for the university teaching or researching career.
Course units belonging to the academic fields defined in the active curricular structure(s) in the current academic year
Spatial Planning and Urbanism
- Dissertation
- Urban Project Studio
- Urban Forms and Structures
- Urban Mobility Management
- Urban Spaces Management
- Location Models and Real-Estate Market
- Urban Environment Quality and Planning
- Planning Transports and Mobility
- Urban and metropolitan Policies
- GIS in Environmental Planning
- Planning Seminar
- Spatial Planning System
Professional Abilities
As future practitioners integrated in the framework of the Central and Local Public Administration and as private practitioners focusing on the development of plans, projects, and consultancy in the field of spatial planning/urbanism in the following main areas:
- Spatial Planning and Climate Transition.
- Transformative and Inclusive Urban Policies.
- Mobility, Accessibility, and Transport Planning.
- Digital Technology in Spatial Planning.
Employment Prospects
Specific objectives of the Programme are: to expand the areas of training at the level of undergraduate and advanced study courses in various topics of engineering education and, in particular, the specific area of the Master in Civil Engineering - Planning Option, allowing thus a wider spatial coverage of postgraduate education in territorial planning and dynamics and adjust that level to the requirements of specific labor market in Portugal and the European Union aiming, therefore, the attractiveness and mobility of students from different countries and the competitiveness and complementarily of training and education at FEUP and FAUP, as well as in European and broader international institutions, at the university level of education.