37 PhD programmes in Urban Planning in Europe

Our Resource Efficient Future Cities researchers from Brunel University of London create knowledge and advance understanding, and equip versatile doctoral researchers with the confidence to apply what they have learnt for the benefit of society. Find out more about working with the Supervisory Team.

The professional doctorate in Planning and Housing Studies at Leeds Beckett University builds on the reputation of Leeds Planning School, first established in 1938.

The PhD on Urban Development and Governance at Erasmus University Rotterdam is a 4-year flexible trajectory programme that fuses urban management with governance.

This PhD programme in Urban Planning is a research degree offered by the School of Social Sciences at the University of Dundee.

This Designing Inclusive Participatory Mapping Tools - A User-Centred Design Approach for Capturing Diverse Urban Experiences course at Aston University will provide all the support and facilities you will need to develop into a leading researcher in your chosen field. 

The School of Geography and Planning is a leading international centre of excellence in teaching and research in spatial planning, human geography and urban design from Cardiff University, where you can study the Geography and Planning programme.

With a strong focus on interdisciplinary research, doctoral candidates engage in innovative projects that contribute to scientific and technological advancement. The Architecture and Urban Planning degree is offered by Silesian University of Technology.

The interuniversity Ph.D. programme in Urban and Regional Development from Politecnico di Torino is designed to train highly-qualified doctors in socio-spatial dynamics of development. 

Immerse yourself in the dynamic field of urban planning, design, and policy with MIP Politecnico Di Milano's Urban Planning, Design, and Policy doctoral program.

This Human Geography and Urban Studies programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science offers training in human geographic research and in responding to the challenges of rapid urbanisation and urban redevelopment around the world.

The Architectural Urban Interior Design programme from Politecnico di Milano promotes research focused on architectural design, with studies and projects aiming at different scales, contexts, and finalities

Management in the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) involves collaboration, innovation and new ways of managing and future-proofing the built environment.

This Regional and Urban Planning Studies programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science addresses the opportunities, problems, politics and economics of urban and regional planning in cities around the world.

Urban Studies at University of Glasgow is widely recognised as a world-leading centre for innovative, interdisciplinary urban research with high international impact. 

This Bookshops and Urban Regeneration - Revitalising the Vibrant High Street PhD prorgamme is offered at the Robert Gordon University. 

This research at the Heriot-Watt University is offered at PhD level and the programme is Poverty, Homelessness and Social Justice .

The objective of the Architectural, Building Construction and Urbanism Technology programmme at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia is to train researchers in the techniques specific to the realisation of architecture, building construction and urbanism, and it focuses on research, development and innovation in these areas of activity.

At Spatial Planning researchers at Blekinge Institute of Technology we research how planning influences and governs societal development.

The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research is dedicated to providing supervision and support to post-graduate students pursuing a PhD in social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. It offers this degree programme in Geography, Planning and International Development Studies.

Welcome to the University of Bari Aldo Moro's Sustainable Land Management Doctoral Program.