“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
The programmes in Town & Regional Planning offer an exciting portfolio of undergraduate, postgraduate and distance-learning opportunities. Importantly, our courses are informed by the research undertaken by members of staff at The Geddes Institute which is based within the School of Social Sciences. This positive environment of theoretically informed and applied research, critical reflection, active dissemination, and learning means that students are at the forefront of cutting-edge developments in spatial policy and environmental planning. Further, students are encouraged to participate in interdisciplinary learning, through a range of joint degrees, in addition to the accredited professional degrees.
The staff are committed to the highest teaching standards and Town and Regional Planning was awarded the highest Teaching Quality Assessment rating for the discipline in Scotland. The majority of teaching staff are members of the Higher Education Academy, as well as members of the relevant professional bodies for our degree programmes. Graduates hold a range of senior positions within central and local government, executive agencies, partnerships, and the private development and consultancy sectors.
Accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), the Town & Regional Planning degree programme provides students with the relevant knowledge and critical understanding of the social and environmental contexts, the nature of changing state-market relations, and spatial planning by which urban and rural professionals intervene in the public interest. Specifically, students develop a range of generic and specialist skills and professional values in order to promote sustainable development in a rapidly changing world in which economic, social and environmental justice are as important to the planning function as the concerns of land, development, and conservation.
The programme includes a number of field visits across the different years of the degree. In recent years Level 3 students have visited Belgium, Holland and Poland, as part of the European Spatial Planning module. In 2006 the students visited Malta.
| Planning Perspectives - TP11001 | Semester 1 | Credits 20 |
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| This module provides a general introduction to the field of town and regional planning, the origins of planning, and the historical context to planning theory and practice. The module also examines the nature of the land and property development process. | ||
| Design and the Environment - TP12002 | Semester 2 | Credits 20 |
This module considers the main principles of design in the built environment and examines the key issues necessary to town and regional planning practice. |
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| Sustainable Development and Environment 1 - TP11003 | Semester 1 | Credits 20 |
| This module provides an introduction to Scotland's natural environment, human utilisation of the environment and impacts upon the quality of air, land and water. | ||
| Countryside Planning and Management - TP12004 | Semester 2 | Credits 20 |
| This module introduces the principal institutions concerned with the environment, planning and development in the countryside and some of the major issues and concerns that have a bearing on planning and environmental management. | ||
| Communications and Information Technology - AG11025 | Semester 1 | Credits 20 |
| A practical introduction to communications and information technology and their uses in the arts and social sciences. | ||
| Foundations of Economic Analysis - EC12003 | Semester 2 | Credits 20 |
| This module introduces you to the tools needed to analyse how an economy works. It helps you to understand consumer choice, how prices are set, the way firms and markets operate, whether monopoly is efficient, why governments might choose to regulate industry or provide services such as health and education. Issues such as the determination of national income are examined along with policy options available to governments to reduce unemployment and inflation. | ||
| Design and Development - TP21001 | Semester 1 | Credits 20 |
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| This module develops student understanding of the operation of land and property markets, the pricing of land and land resources, investment in property and issues relating to residential, commercial, retail, recreational and cultural markets. | ||
| Planning Theory and Practice - TP22002 | Semester 2 | Credits 20 |
| This module explores the main theories of planning from the traditional view of planning as an exercise in physical design to more recent ideas of planning as a form of communicative action. | ||
| Management in the Built and Natural Environments - TP21009 | Semester 1 | Credits 20 |
| This module examines management for environmental (built and natural) professionals and environmental projects. It also considers the basic techniques used for investment appraisal and how these may be adapted to meet the requirements of environmental projects. | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Law - TP22004 | Semester 2 | Credits 20 |
| This course introduces students to statutory controls in relation to the environment, and considers the relationship between planning law and environmental regulation. | ||
| Design and Development - TP12005 | Semester 2 | Credits 20 |
| This module develops student understanding of the operation of land and property markets, the pricing of land and land resources, investment in property and issues relating to residential, commercial, retail, recreational and cultural markets. | ||
A World in Crisis? Population and Environment - GE11001 |
Semester 1 | Credits 20 |
This module examines the perceived crises associated with a rapid increase in population and its coincidence with forces resulting in global, regional and local damage to the physical environment. |
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| Management and Monitoring - EV21001 | Semester 1 | Credits 20 |
| This module explores environmental geo-science, environmental monitoring and applications of remote sensing, environmental resource management and the state of the Scottish environment. | ||
| Mechanisms and Measurement - EV22002 | Semester 1 | Credits 20 |
| This module explores aquatic science, terrestrial ecology, and environmental chemistry, including the development of fundamental chemical principles and their relevance to environmental processes. | ||
Study Abroad students may take level 3 modules, however, evidence of prior knowledge may be required in the form of transcripts. To find out more about this contact us.
| Territorial Planning and Development - TP31001 | Semester 1 | Credits 30 |
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| This module develops a critical awareness and understanding of the purpose, nature, principles and operation of statutory and non-statutory development planning, public involvement and non-statutory approaches at the regional and local levels. | ||
| Planning Law and Practice - TP31002 | Semester 1 | Credits 30 |
| The module provides students with the required technical knowledge of the Scottish planning system with particular reference to development of the built and natural environment. | ||
| European Spatial Planning - TP32003 | Semester 2 | Credits 30 |
| This module considers the theoretical background to regional spatial planning and examines the nature and future development of regionalism in European and UK contexts. It involves a residential study visit to a European country. | ||
| Environmental Assessment and Sustainability Appraisal - TP32004 | Semester 2 | Credits 30 |
| This option deals with topics which are at the cutting edge of sustainable development policy and practice, including Environmental Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment. | ||
Urban Policies and Programmes - TP32005 |
Semester 2 | Credits 30 |
| This option considers the development of contemporary urban policy in the UK, its origins with reference to contextual social, political and institutional factors. | ||
Study Abroad students may take level 4 modules, however, evidence of prior knowledge may be required in the form of transcripts. To find out more about this contact us.
| Critical Planning Agendas - TP41001 | Semester 1 | Credits 30 |
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| This module explores contemporary themes and issues in the planning and management of cities, regions and the environment. | ||
| Community Governance - TP41004 | Semester 1 | Credits 30 |
| This option critically examines key aspects of theory and practice associated with community governance, community based planning and neighbourhood management. | ||
| Urban Conservation and Rehabilitation - TP41005 | Semester 1 | Credits 30 |
| This option analyses the factors which have led to the emergence of urban area conservation and rehabilitation in the UK and explores the case for extensive urban conservation. | ||
| Conservation of Buildings of Architectural and Historic Interest - TP41007 | Semester 1 | Credits 30 |
| This option examines building conservation, the principles of listing buildings, the complexities of funding projects and the technical issues raised in practical building projects. | ||
| Landscape Design and Management - TP42003 | Semester 2 | Credits 30 |
| This option explores the forces that shape today's landscape, landscape design methodology, and the role of plants and building materials in project implementation. | ||
| European Urban Conservation and Rehabilitation - TP42006 | Semester 2 | Credits 30 |
| This option examines the recent revival of derelict inner city urban areas in Europe, and places physical planning and architectural issues in a socio-economic context. Case studies are used to illustrate themes such as the need for accurate restoration and the quest for economic regeneration. | ||
| Heritage Management - TP42009 | Semester 2 | Credits 30 |
| This option examines the role of international charters in fostering sound principles of heritage management, and the relationship between management policies and statutory protection in the context of World Heritage Sites, listed buildings and conservation areas. | ||
| Dissertation | ||
| This module allows students to undertake an extended study (8,000 to 10,000 words) of a topic or problem which has relevance to the study of town and regional planning. This process will involve both theoretical and empirical knowledge and argument. | ||
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