Course Name
Urban Planning: from Strategy to Local Action (UP)
(A joint course offered by IHS in collaboration with the Berlage Institute and Co-plan)

Date and duration
8 August - 2 September, 2011

Location
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
One week study trip to Albania

Tuition fee
€ 2,500 (excluding study trip costs)

NFP Application deadline
1 February 2011

IHS Application deadline
1 June 2011

Who is it for?

Designed specifically for urban planners with at least 3 years of working experience, this course offers understanding on integrating social, economic and environmental development objectives in spatial planning processes, linking strategic planning and budgeting. It introduces concrete tools to build commitment of stakeholders including funders.

Course Introduction

Urban Planning moved away from comprehensive master plans, controlling the spatial development of the entire territory to more flexible strategic plans and visions. Strategic planning includes economic and social dimensions alongside the physical and spatial dimensions of planning, it is focused on creating synergies and aims to build on the potential of existing initiatives and ongoing activities and development in cities. To ensure implementation, urban planners need to translate strategies and visions into a range of concrete action plans, which all need commitment from politicians, funders and other stakeholders. Urban planners need to become urban managers who can formulate strategic spatial plans which are feasible to be implemented even in the challenging circumstances of today such as rapidly growing cities with informal housing, social deprivation and economic decline and changing climatic circumstances.

Course Content

The course combines lectures, exercises, group work and field visits and field work. Participants will work in teams on case studies from cities around the world and will conduct field work in teams in the City of Tirana Albania. Tirana provides exposure to situations common in both transition and developing countries including managing informality, the role of the NGOs in development, integrating knowledge institutes in urban development, the new City Development Strategy, and the role of a dynamic mayor.

By the end of the course, participants have improved their understanding of urban processes and their skills in developing an urban strategic plan which can be translated into local action plans, with funding and commitment.

Diploma

Post-graduate Diploma issued jointly by IHS and the Berlage Institute.

Admission

In order to participate in this short course, you should:

• Have at least a Bachelor’ degree from a recognised University or similar institute.
• If you did not complete a Bachelors degree in English you must show certificates with relevant test results (such as TOEFL min. 550/TOEFL computer-based min. 213/ TOEFL internet based 79, IELTS min.6.0 (no IELTS subtest <5.5).
• Have at least three years of work or academic experience relevant for the course

Apply Now

For detailed information and to apply on-line, please follow the link below:
http://www.ihs.nl/up

Contact

For further information on the course and application procedure, please contact the course manager Mr. Anteneh Getnet (dagnachew@ihs.nl) or IHS Marketing and Communication, Mr. Yicheng Guo (y.guo @ihs.nl).

Partner organisation

Berlage Institute
The Berlage Institute is a post-academic laboratory for design-based research in architecture, urbanism, and other issues related to the built environment. Its postgraduate program and PhD program are open to applications from graduated and experienced architects, urban planners, landscape architects, and other researchers. Complementary to these programs, the Institute also broadens its activities to the professional sector with a series of publications, for which it solicits internal and external collaborators, and a public program of lectures, debates, and symposia.
http://www.berlage-institute.nl/

Co-PLAN
Co-PLAN in Albania is a very active professional NGO with national and international experience and is active in Albania and Kosovo. It works in the fields of urban, regional, municipal, and environmental management and institutional development.
http://www.co-plan.org/

IHS - Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies
Erasmus University Rotterdam
P.O. Box 1935
3000BX Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Burg. Oudlaan 50
T-Building – 14th Floor
3062PA Rotterdam
The Netherlands

P:+31 (0)10 4089825
F:+31 (0)10 4098926

www.ihs.nl