Socio-spatial Planning

Taking this realization as a starting-point, the Master Socio-Spatial Planning helps you to understand the 'human factor' in spatial planning: why different groups of people embrace, contest or reject spatial changes, how they take the lead in shaping their own environment, how spatial interventions influence different stakeholders and how to engage society effectively in spatial transformations. This master program prepares you for working as a spatial planner (within a governmental arena), a consultant or an advisor, an employee of a non-governmental organization or a researcher, able to intervene in planning processes in a critical, responsive and communicative way, and with an understanding of how: *Spatial planning issues, choices and interventions are socially constructed and debated. *The ways that the key actors (civil society, state, market) in planning processes are interdependent and interrelated in planning, dealing with and making sense of spatial transformations. *To develop and analyze innovative institutional designs and policy solutions for negotiating these actor perceptions and interdependencies within complex spatial changes. You will work with topics such as

Instruction modes

literature study, oral presentation, research, research project, tutorial, group assignment, individual assignment, practicum, self study

Accreditation: NVAO

Erasmus Mundus program: This is an Erasmus Mundus program.

Admission requirements

* English at VWO level * Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (A, B or C) * Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (A, B or C) * A score of 6.5 or higher in the complete International English Language Testing System (Academic version) (IELTS) * A score of at least 90 on the internet version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) * A score of at least 580 on the paper version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) * A score of at least 237 on the computer version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) * Exemptions: Native English speakers or diploma holders from United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland.

Other requirements

1. taaltoets cijfer * English at VWO level * Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (A, B or C) * Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (A, B or C) * A score of 6.5 or higher in the complete International English Language Testing System (Academic version) (IELTS) * A score of at least 90 on the internet version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) * A score of at least 580 on the paper version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) * A score of at least 237 on the computer version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) * Exemptions: Native English speakers or diploma holders from United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland.
2. taaltoets cijfer * English at VWO level * Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (A, B or C) * Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (A, B or C) * A score of 6.5 or higher in the complete International English Language Testing System (Academic version) (IELTS) * A score of at least 90 on the internet version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) * A score of at least 580 on the paper version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) * A score of at least 237 on the computer version of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) * Exemptions: Native English speakers or diploma holders from United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland.
3. vooropleiding (ISPAC: vereiste vooropleiding) Access with research university, bachelor degree: Human Geography & Regional and Urban Planning, Spatial Planning and Design, Urban studies, Land Use Planning and Management, Landscape Architecture, Public Administration and Cultural Geography. You might also have access with Urban/Rural Sociology (with a focus on place-space theories and governance), Environmental Management (with a focus on governance/policy/public administration. Environmental Psychology (with a focus on governance/policy/public administration). This will be assessed individually.
4. vooropleiding (ISPAC: vereiste vooropleiding) Access with research university, bachelor degree: Human Geography & Regional and Urban Planning, Spatial Planning and Design, Urban studies, Land Use Planning and Management, Landscape Architecture, Public Administration and Cultural Geography. You might also have access with Urban/Rural Sociology (with a focus on place-space theories and governance), Environmental Management (with a focus on governance/policy/public administration. Environmental Psychology (with a focus on governance/policy/public administration). This will be assessed individually.