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Start   >  Master's & postgraduate courses  >  Education  >  Postgraduate course in Spatial Planning
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This postgraduate course is also part of the training track for the continuing education master's degree in Urban Planning and Sustainability.

Presentation

Information 2024-2025 edition
The 2024-2025 edition of the postgraduate course has already begun. Shortly we will publish updated information about the new edition of this programme.
Edition
5th Edition
Credits
20 ECTS (120 teaching hours)
Delivery
Online
Language of instruction
Spanish
Fee
€2,900
Special conditions on payment of enrolment fee and 0,7% campaign
Registration open until the beginning of the course or until end of vacancies.
Next course
October of 2025
Timetable
Monday: 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Tuesday: 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Wednesday: 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Thursday: 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Friday: 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Taught at
Online
Why this postgraduate course?

This program is proposed as a basic body of specific contents required for Territorial Planning. The city, the territory, is the place where the set of economic, cultural and social relations is expressed. The traditional notions of living, working and leisure, characteristics of rationalist urbanism, have added a set of increasingly complex aspects. These require defining in another way the role of the traditional professions involved in urban and territorial planning, as well as those related to the sustainable development of natural spaces and the processes of artificialization of the territory. Some of the aspects that take a growing importance in the management and sustainable management of the territory are the crisis of the industrial production system, the processes of division of labor within tertiary activity, the irruption of ICT, economic development with the criterion of sustainability, changes in the demographic structure of the population, migrations on a planetary scale, territorial suburbanization and the progressive consumption of land, the interdependence and competition of the economy and territories on a global scale, the new social habits in the trade and leisure, the changes experienced in transport infrastructure and mobility, etc.

In opposition to these new challenges of contemporary society, stands out the stagnation of traditional professions, in which the transformations of degree continue anchored, in our country, in the situation generated with industrialization. Architects, geographers, industrial and road engineers, sociologists, among others, continue to be university degrees more related to design and management, not having appeared in Spain, new professional expressions trained to plan the complexity of the territory that characterizes the XXI century.

In the case of foreign students, or Spanish non-architects; Without knowledge of the Legal Framework of Planning and Urban Management in Spain, it is recommended the realization of the subject Introduction to Spanish Urban Law, which provides a set of introductory contents that ensure a common minimum knowledge base, very useful for the future realization of the postgraduate.

Promoted by:
  • Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions
Aims
  • Confronting the formation of multidisciplinary specialists trained to deal with the planning and management of the city and territory in the XXI century. Authentic planners "planners" (in the Anglo-Saxon denomination), contemporary urban and territorial systems.
  • Assess land regulation, the edificadora morphology and morphology of the land.
  • Identify the instruments of environmental management planning and evaluation to measure the economic and social value of goods without a manifest market, such as environmental or urban spaces.
Who is it for?
  • Technical career professionals of higher or technical degree (architects and engineers), graduates in Economics, Geography and Sociology.
  • Professionals who, in one way or another, link their professional activity to the planning of the territory and technicians of public administrations.
  • Professionals, who still have no direct professional relationship with the contents of the course, are interested in knowing in a rigorous way all those theoretical aspects related to the planning of the territory and the city and its conditioning and environmental implications.

Training Content

List of subjects
10 ECTS 60h
Spatial and Urban Planning
  • The genesis of urban planning, its evolution and territorial and urban problems generated from the industrial revolution.
  • Study of urban paradigms:
    • The urban phenomenon of the twentieth century.
    • Urban expansion and suburbanization versus compactness.
    • Crisis and decadence of urban centers.
    • The monocentric city and polycentric models.
    • The evolution of the current city "post-Fordism".
    • The economy and the city of knowledge.
    • The environmental, economic and social sustainability of urban structures.
    • Immigration and social segregation, closed neighborhoods, metropolitanization, megalopolis, intermediate cities, among others.
  • The European territorial strategy. The balanced development of the regions. The European Territorial Agenda. Towards an Inclusive, Smart and Sustainable Europe of Diverse Regions.
  • Spanish urban law. Concept and evolution of urban law in the Spanish state. The principles and structure of the regulatory system of urbanism. Urban planning techniques: classification and qualification of the land, the legal regime of the land and the execution of the planning.
  • Territorial planning in Catalonia is explained at a regional level. Study of the Territorial Plans, Territorial Plans and the Master Plans, in addition to other sectoral plans of incidence in the territory such as mobility, housing or infrastructure.
  • At the local scale, the General Urban Planning System, its competencies and scope are analyzed. Municipal Urban Planning Plans (POUM), Municipal Urban Action Programs (PAUM) and Derived Urban Planning: Special, Partial, Improvement and Delimitation Plans.
  • Prospective planning instruments.
  • Analysis of urban renewal plans and programs.
  • Practical workshops on case studies at a territorial scale as well as experiences on an urban scale.
  • Visits (in the morning) to the Territory and Urban Planning areas of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Serveis d'Urbanisme of the Metropolitan Area of ​​Barcelona (AMB) and the urban planning area of ​​the Barcelona City Council.
5 ECTS 30h
Management, Governance and Urban Policies
  • Analysis of the different policies on land and housing, with special emphasis on the review of good practices of European housing policies, as well as from the point of view of their historical evolution and in the analysis and achievement of their objectives.
  • Relations between land policy and the real estate market.
  • Factors that from urban planning can influence the normalization of the land market, among other objectives.
  • Development of the main elements of urban policy (analysis of the supply and demand of land and housing, accessibility to the market, financing, taxation, etc.).
  • The basic management instruments are analyzed, such as expropriation, equitable distribution of benefits and charges, land reserves for social housing, public land assets, intervention in the market, rental policy, etc.
  • Citizen participation that guarantees economic development, social cohesion and quality of life, under the principles of governance. For this, it has the participation of non-governmental organizations of citizen participation, as well as the exhibition of the experience in this field of the city of Barcelona.
    policies

5 ECTS 30h
Geographic Information Systems
  • Knowledge of geographic information systems, through the teaching of ArcGis software.
  • Structure of graphic and alphanumeric data, its components and work procedures.
  • Study of vectorial and raster information systems.
  • Introduction to remote sensing.
  • Analysis of the relevant concepts of urban and territorial structure, possible opinion and work procedures, fundamentally for its synthetic visualization in a municipal scope.
  • Processes necessary to explore and show different factors that converge in an environment, their spatial relationships, as well as an integrating reading of various components.
  • Qualitative improvement of the information that allows the combination of elements and synthesis of contents through the exploration of different urban information bases in digital format and GIS-based computer applications.
  • Practical workshops with knowledge and work criteria of the SIG.

Degree
Postgraduate qualification in Spatial Planning, issued by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Issued by virtue of the provisions of art. 7.1 of Organic Law 2/2023 of 22 March, concerning the University System, and art. 36 of Royal Decree 822/2021 of 28 September, which establishes the organisation of university education and the procedure for ensuring its quality. A prior official university qualification is necessary to obtain it. Otherwise, the student will receive a certificate of completion of the programme issued by the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya. Lifelong learning studies at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya are approved by the University's Governing Council on an annual basis. (See details appearing on the certificate).
Range of modules
This postgraduate course is part of the training track for the continuing education master's degree in Urban Planning and Sustainability .
The continuing education master's degree programme is organized into the following modules. If you don't wish to take the entire continuing education master's degree you can sign on one or several modules.
Continuing education master's degree:
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Learning methodology

The teaching methodology of the programme facilitates the student's learning and the achievement of the necessary competences.



Learning tools
Participatory lectures
A presentation of the conceptual foundations of the content to be taught, promoting interaction with the students to guide them in their learning of the different contents and the development of the established competences.
Practical classroom sessions
Knowledge is applied to a real or hypothetical environment, where specific aspects are identified and worked on to facilitate understanding, with the support from teaching staff.
Solving exercises
Solutions are worked on by practising routines, applying formulas and algorithms, and procedures are followed for transforming the available information and interpreting the results.
Case studies
Real or hypothetical situations are presented in which the students, in a completely participatory and practical way, examine the situation, consider the various hypotheses and share their own conclusions.
Success stories
Outstanding business knowledge and experiences with high added value acquired during an outstanding professional career are presented and shared.
Assessment criteria
Attendance
At least 80% attendance of teaching hours is required.
Level of participation
The student's active contribution to the various activities offered by the teaching team is assessed.
Solving exercises, questionnaires or exams
Individual tests aimed at assessing the degree of learning and the acquisition of competences.
Work out projects
Studies on a specific topic, by individuals or groups, in which the quality and depth of the work is assessed, among other factors.
Work placements & employment service
Students can access job offers in their field of specialisation on the My_Tech_Space virtual campus. Applications made from this site will be treated confidentially. Hundreds of offers of the UPC School of Professional & Executive Development employment service appear annually. The offers range from formal contracts to work placement agreements.
Virtual campus
The students on this postgraduate course will have access to the My_ Tech_Space virtual campus - an effective platform for work and communication between the course's students, lecturers, directors and coordinators. My_Tech_Space provides the documentation for each training session before it starts, and enables students to work as a team, consult lecturers, check notes, etc.

Teaching team

Academic management
  • Arellano Ramos, Blanca Esmaragda
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    PhD in architecture by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and architect by Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and Master's degree in Urban Management and Valuation from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Associate lecturer at the Department of Architectural Technology of the ETSAB, researcher at the Land Policy and Valuations Centre at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and a member of the Quality of Urban Life and Sustainability research group. She has conducted and directed research in the areas of urban planning, land and housing policy, analysis of urban growth processes: Sprawl vs. Compact City, sustainable urbanism, sustainable mobility, public space, urban regeneration, citizen culture, capital gains and city management models. She has held various positions in the public sector in the areas of housing, land, urban development and ecology, as well as territorial and urban planning.
  • Roca Cladera, Josep
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    PhD in Architecture, and Professor emeritus at the UPC. Director of the Land Policy and Valuations Centre at the UPC. He is director of the Doctorate Course in Urban and Architectural Management and Valuation, a unique programme in Spain as it combines the economic, legal, social and environmental processes that underlie the planning of the city and the territory. He is the author of numerous articles related to the real estate economy, the analysis of territorial structures and the city. His most well-known books focus on the theoretical analysis of the formation of land value and on the practical application of valuation methods. Dr Roca is a national and international benchmark in the valuations field, and especially those related to urban management processes. He has been a Spanish pioneer in teaching valuations at the postgraduate level since the appearance of master's degree courses in the early 1980s.
Teaching staff
  • Arellano Ramos, Blanca Esmaragda
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    PhD in architecture by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and architect by Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and Master's degree in Urban Management and Valuation from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Associate lecturer at the Department of Architectural Technology of the ETSAB, researcher at the Land Policy and Valuations Centre at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and a member of the Quality of Urban Life and Sustainability research group. She has conducted and directed research in the areas of urban planning, land and housing policy, analysis of urban growth processes: Sprawl vs. Compact City, sustainable urbanism, sustainable mobility, public space, urban regeneration, citizen culture, capital gains and city management models. She has held various positions in the public sector in the areas of housing, land, urban development and ecology, as well as territorial and urban planning.
  • Bosch Meda, Jordi
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    Architect. Doctor in Management and Urban Assessment. Responsible for Remodeling Neighborhoods, Department of Environment and Housing of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
  • Carrera Alpuente, Josep Maria
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    Architect from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Coordinator of the Metropolitan Territorial Plan of Barcelona. He currently works in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, as head of the coordination section for presidential plans and programs and is president of the League for the Defense of Natural Heritage (DEPANA).
  • Erquicia Olaciregui, Jesus Maria
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    Architect by the University of Valencia (1981). Doctor of Architecture from the University of the Basque Country (2002). Diploma in Territorial Planning. Professor at the Basque School of Territorial Studies (EVETU) of the Basque Institute of Public Administration (IVAP). Responsible for Territory Planning Service of the Basque Government (1987-2022). Director and Coordinator of the drafting team of the Territorial Planning Guidelines of the Basque Country, Urbanism Award 2020 of the Superior Council of the Associations of Architects of Spain. Member of the Expert Group of the Ministry of Transport and Mobility, drafting the Spanish Urban Agenda.
  • Esteban Noguera, Juli
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    Architect, Doctor Honoris Causa by the UPC (2011) for his long career in urban planning. He participated in the drafting of the General Metropolitan Plan of Barcelona and was the director of the Urban Planning Services of the metropolitan institutions of Barcelona (1983-1992). He directed the City Planning Office of Barcelona (1992-2004) and the Territorial Planning Program of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2004-2010). He is the author of Elements of Urban Planning, The Urban Planning, and Urbanism. A quick dive.
  • Fariña Tojo, José
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    Dr. Architect from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). Law degree from the National University of Distance Studies (UNED). Urban Planning Technician by the Institute of Local Administration Studies (IEAL). Technician in Business Administration from the UPM. Expert in Urban Law from the School of Legal Practice of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). University professor. In July 2018 he was appointed Emeritus Professor of the UPM. He has been director of the Editorial Board of Urban magazine. Director of Urban Research Notebooks. Member of the Habitat Committee, of the International Association of Urban Planners, of GBCe and of the scientific committee of the Sustainability and Architecture Association (ASA). He has been a member of the European Union Commission for Sustainable Urban Design for four years.
  • García Pérez, Sandra
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    Graduated in Environmental Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and a master's degree in Urban Environment and Sustainability from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). She 15 years of experience in sustainable urbanism projects and in the field of strategic environmental assessment of urban planning. Currently responsible for projects of Ciutat i Territori a Anthesis Lavola leading projects of Strategic Environmental Assessment, urban strategy and implementation of the 2030 Agenda and Urban Agenda at a local scale.
  • Jornet Forner, Sebastià
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    Urban Architect by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Associate Professor of the Department of Urban Planning and Territorial Planning of the UPC. President of the Agrupación de Arquitectos Urbanistas de Cataluña (AAUC). Professor in various training courses in the field of urban planning and management at the UPC, Bar Association of Barcelona and the Sert School of the College of Architects of Catalonia. European Prize of Urbanism 2010 and National Prize of Urbanism of Spain 2006 by the Plan in the district of the Mine in Sant Adrià de Besòs with the office of Jornet Llop Pastor arquitectos.
  • Lambies Ortin, Enric
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    Lawyer by the University of Barcelona, urban planning technician and local administration secretary. He has held various management positions in the Urbanisme Services of the City Council of Barcelona and Coordination with the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. Teacher in the field of urban law at the Escola d'Administració Pública de Catalunya.
  • Llop Torné, Josep Maria
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    Urbanist Architect from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Director of Urban Planning and the Environment of Lleida (1979-1988 and 1991-2003). Director of Urban Planning of the Barcelona City Council (1987-1991). Professor at the University of Lleida (UdL) and the UPC. First Prize for Urbanism in Catalonia for the General Plan of Lleida 1995-2015. Coordinator of the Red Urb-AL project on urban income redistribution instruments. Deputy Mayor of Lleida (2003-2007). Director UNESCO Chair on intermediate cities, urbanization and development (2008 to 2023).
  • Mercadé Marimon, Montserrat
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    Graduated in Philosophy and Letters, Geography section from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Specialized in sociodemographic studies for general urban planning and its modifications, for neighborhood projects, housing plans and equipment. She has worked on the subject of residential developments in Catalonia. She has made reports of alterations of limits of municipal terms. She has been co-director of the Observatory of projects and territorial debates of Catalonia and of the Territorial Yearbook of Catalonia. Self-employed.
  • Norte Pinto, Nuno Eduardo
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    PhD in Urban Management and Assessment from the School of Architecture of Barcelona of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Design at the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
  • Palacio i Villacampa, Gabriel Àngel
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    Architect from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and senior territorial planner. He is currently responsible for the development of territorial thinking in the General Sub-Directorate for Housing of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He has more than 30 years of professional experience, during which he has held various technical positions. He specializes in the formulation and application of spatial planning, and its connection with urban planning, housing, the landscape, land stewardship and rural development, and the environmental and legal implications that derive from it.
  • Pérez Lamas, Carlos
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    Architect, Master in Management and Urban Assessment by the UPC, Full Professor of the Chair of Assessments, Urban Law and Legal Architecture of the UPC. He has been a Municipal Architect in the field of planning, licensing and urban management. Expert in matters related to regulations in building, urban planning, management and urban valuation. Participates in the teaching of postgraduate courses in different universities and professional colleges. He is the author of numerous books and manuals on legal architecture, valuations and urban management.
  • Pindado Sanchez, Fernando
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    Lawyer by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Commissioner of Participation of the Ajuntament de Barcelona.
  • Roca Cladera, Josep
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    PhD in Architecture, and Professor emeritus at the UPC. Director of the Land Policy and Valuations Centre at the UPC. He is director of the Doctorate Course in Urban and Architectural Management and Valuation, a unique programme in Spain as it combines the economic, legal, social and environmental processes that underlie the planning of the city and the territory. He is the author of numerous articles related to the real estate economy, the analysis of territorial structures and the city. His most well-known books focus on the theoretical analysis of the formation of land value and on the practical application of valuation methods. Dr Roca is a national and international benchmark in the valuations field, and especially those related to urban management processes. He has been a Spanish pioneer in teaching valuations at the postgraduate level since the appearance of master's degree courses in the early 1980s.
  • Tomas Centrich, Cristina
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    Architect from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2011). She begins to develop her professional career collaborating with various studios in public space and landscaping projects. In 2014, she collaborated with the Technical Office of the Urban Master Plan of Barcelona (PDU) for the realization of the exhibition Metropolis Barcelona. Since 2015, she has been part of the PDU Drafting Service team (AMB) specializing in the field of urban and territorial planning in the public sector and in Geographic Information Systems.

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  • Technical manager of urban planning, territory and environment departments in public administrations.
  • Consultant in Urban Planning and Territorial Planning.
  • Urbanist specialist in urban planning.
  • Project manager in the planning area, territory and environment.
  • Urbanist in free professional exercise.

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