709A17 · 7.5 credits · Advanced level (A1F) · Samhällsplanering
Transformative Urban and Regional Planning
Active · next start HT 2026
100%
passed the latest regular sitting
DEL1 · 13 Nov 2025 · 9 students
100%
passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years
DEL1 · 9 students
This module only reports passing results, so the pass rate does not show how many did not pass.
Part of 1 programme
Other module
DEL1 Participation in mandatory elements
- P
Main rounds
100% passed · 9 students
- 100%9
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
PROJ Project work in group
- A
- B
- C
Main rounds
100% passed · 9 students
- 100%9
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get B or A: 67% (9 students)
Hand-in or lab
UPG1 Individual written assignment
- A
- B
- C
Main rounds
100% passed · 9 students
- 100%9
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get B or A: 67% (9 students)
About the course
Aim
On completion of the course, the student must, at an advanced level, be able to:
- describe and explain the importance of urban infrastructure for transformative change
- describe and problematize transformative urban and regional planning practices and related sustainability and climate challenges
- critically analyze and compare current theories in transformative urban and regional planning
- map and evaluate current cases from practice in transformative spatial planning
- apply GIS-based tools to analyze and visualize change processes in transformative urban and regional planning
Content
This course deals with conditions and opportunities in transformative urban and regional planning to meet sustainability and climate challenges in cities and regions. The focus is particularly on socio-technical and infrastructural conditions and emphasizes the interdependence that exists between technology and society. The course analyzes transformative change through conflicting goals, epistemologies, planners agency, and implications in concrete cases. The course studies different infrastructure systems in energy, transport, mobility and the built environment. The course includes to critically analyze transformative change processes in urban and regional planning by using geographical information system (GIS) based tools.
- Examiner
- Dick Magnusson
- Main field of study
- Samhällsplanering