More and more people are living in cities. This global development currently poses a challenge for urban planning: How can residents in densely populated areas live together in a socially acceptable way? How should the scarce space be used for construction? How can changes to inner-city structures be controlled? And how can we counteract the desertification of rural areas?
Urban and regional planners develop solutions in an urban and regional context. The Bachelor's degree course in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Kassel is based on an intensive interdisciplinary link between the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Planning (ASL). The learning objective for students is interdisciplinary thinking and action. This corresponds to the requirements of today's profession, which is characterized by broadly diversified, interdisciplinary and constantly changing tasks.
The practice-oriented six-semester course focuses on training planning and design skills. In addition to teaching the basics in the areas of general sciences, fine arts, design and representation, instruments, procedures and technology as well as planning objects and planning levels, subject-specific knowledge is taught in the planning-conceptual and planning-scientific orientation (urban and regional development) as well as in the design-oriented creative orientation (urban development). If students complete a practical project module in the last semester before their Bachelor's degree, they will get to know the requirements of the profession by working in an office and can make valuable contacts for the time after their studies.
