Urban and regional planning
Urban and Regional Planning is about effectively managing the shared spaces in which people live, work and play, whether this be in large regions and cities, or smaller towns, suburbs and neighbourhoods. Planning is particularly concerned with ensuring that places cater for different groups and individuals fairly, efficiently and sustain ably, and that our cities and towns provide for a range of opportunities for those who need them. Ensuring that our cities and towns are more ecologically sustainable, socially just and economically productive is at the heart of urban and regional planning practice.
Planners come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and are usually interested in research and in analysing the way places change over time. They also need to be willing to challenge and question the way our cities and regions are currently designed and managed with a view to recognising what needs to be maintained and what needs to be changed.
While there are no particular prerequisite courses or programs required, studying urban and regional planning at the University of South Australia will ensure that you have the appropriate education required of a planner, and that you have completed the educational requirements prescribed by the peak professional planning body in Australia, namely the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA).
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Program Information Sessions 2007
Program Information Sessions
11 September 2007
6:00pm, room H2-02
City East Campus
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www.unisa.edu.au/itee