Spatial Planning

Regenerating shopping districts or old industrial sites; designating water retention areas; shaping urban mobility concepts for the future. Related challenges vary in scale, from individual property to strategic policy making. Within the Master's Spatial Planning, you have a choice between three Master's specialisations.

Why study Spatial Planning at Radboud University?
Spatial planners are fascinated by on-going and future changes in cities and regions and take on the role as managers of those spatial transformations.


This programme offers a different understanding of planning and forms of practices. You will be encouraged to develop new ways of creating socially, environmentally and economically just places.

We are a small, almost ‘family-like’ department that covers a broad range of topics with a strong track record in related research. This means that you’ll have the advantage of enjoying plenty of one-on-one contact with expert supervisors while pursuing a topic that is of personal interest to you.

You are trained to think outside given boxes by combining well-established core courses with electives providing state of the art specialist knowledge.

Together with lecturers and practitioners, you will develop smart and sustainable solutions for actual and future planning problems.