Sustainable Urban Planning and Design

Overview

The Sustainable Urban Planning and Design programme at KTH Royal Institute of Technology provides professionals with a profound and broad understanding of the multiple factors in sustainable urban development. 

Students are trained to alter planning and design practices to respond to the environmental conditions and societal needs of the future.

The programme brings together students of architecture, planning, civil engineering and natural and social sciences. 

Students will be equipped with theoretical knowledge and professional tools that position them to act as critical links, joining multiple perspectives together in sustainable planning and design processes relevant in Sweden and worldwide. 

Coursework includes substantial time spent in studios and on projects that train students in practical skills as well as giving them deep understanding of planning and design practice.

Career

The programme prepares students as professionals in a growing and meaningful field, building a thorough understanding of planning and design process as well as aesthetic, social, environmental, economic and institutional factors that contribute to sustainable urban development. 

Graduates from this programme work with urban and regional planning, environmental planning and urban design in public organisations, private companies, research institutes and NGOs. 

Examples of public organisations are municipalities who are responsible for urban planning and development, regional development authorities, environmental protection authorities and national transport administrations which together employ close to half of the graduates. 

The private sector, which includes both architectural, planning and policy consultancy firms as well as project developers, also employ close to half of the graduates. The remaining 5–10 percent go on to doctoral studies at KTH and abroad or work in NGOs.