Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Urban and regional planning plays a key role in building a just, sustainable future. We take planning forward by educating skilled professionals, conducting high-impact research and working closely with both public and private partners.
NMBU's Department of Urban and Regional Planning constitutes a dynamic academic environment of students and researchers working to shape the society of the future. With cities growing at record speed, and a demand to redesign new land areas, there is an urgent need to steer development in a safe, viable and sustainable direction.
Research centres and groups
- SITRAP Centre for Integrated and Transdisciplinary Education in Planning (Centrte for Excellence in Education)
- Centre for Landscape Democracy (CLAD)
- Environmental Planning and Natural Resource Governance
- Network for Mobility and Social Sustainability
- Territorialization and Methods in Planning (TMP)
- Urban Lab
- Urban and Planning Philosophy
- Urban Sustainability
Research projects
- Co-creating knowledge for local adaptation to climate change in least developed countries (COLOCAL)
- Developing synergies between the bioeconomy and regional food systems for a sustainable future (SYNAGRI)
- European Cities Against Segregation (ECASS)
- Innovativ metodikk for besøksforvaltning i regionalt plan- og utviklingsarbeid
- Jordvern i Frogn, Nesodden, Nordre Follo og Ås
- Land-use change and changing windpower licensing: Process, Practices and Pressure (WINDGOV)
- PlanCoast: Management and planning of property and rights in coastal zones
- Planning for sustainable second-home development (SECPLAN)
- Public Space in European Social Housing (PuSH)
- Resource sharing in residential buildings: Innovative approaches to shared, circular mobility space solutions for sustainable consumption (RESHARE)
- The social equality of Nature-based Solutions to urban heat stress
- Twin Fjord
Publications
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Contact info for our staff
NMBU central switchboard: +47 67 23 00 00