37 PhD programmes in Urban Planning in Europe

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

The Architectural, Civil and Urban Heritage and Refurbishment of Existing Buildings programme of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia is a joint doctoral programme.

Urbanism from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia is aimed at students who wish to undertake further research training in order to complete and defend a doctoral thesis.

The international Doctoral Programme Urban Studies at University of Milano - Bicocca is networked with a number of outstanding European Universities: University of Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Delft, Lièges, London, Leuven, Oulu, Paris, Wien. 

Enriching the academic landscape in Poland, the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences proudly introduces its doctoral program in Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management.

The Urban Planning, Design, and Policy programme from Politecnico di Milano was initiated in 2013 through the merging of two earlier programmes both based in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies

The Planning programme offered by Queen's University Belfast develops advanced research expertise in spatial planning, sustainable development, governance, and place-making, enabling students to investigate complex social, environmental, and territorial challenges through interdisciplinary research.

In the Planning phd programme from University of Liverpool, you will be joining a team that has close links with schools across Europe, the Americas and Pacific Asia. 

This Digital, Material Transformation and Infrastructures research area at The Open University UK considers cities not just as cultural and political sites, but also as sites where socio-material relations are enacted.

Research traditional economics such as spatial, urban and real estate economics, and approaches within regional science and local economic development. Learn more at the Economic Geography programme from London School of Economics and Political Science.

Understand changing human populations – past, present and future. Equip yourself with advanced demographic research skills. Learn more at the Demography (Social - Formal) from London School of Economics and Political Science.

The Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford provides outstanding students an opportunity to pursue in-depth and rigorous research about the pressing challenges of urban sustainability and the processes of environmental, economic, and social development in urban environments around the world.

Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield an ambitious interdisciplinary research agenda which is driven by the need to examine how knowledge about the world is turned into actions designed to make it a better place.

The (re)making of better and sustainable urban landscapes can be achieved by considering urbanism as a planning and design-oriented activity. This Urbanism program is offered at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).

The Spatial Planning programme from University of Porto is designed to foster advanced knowledge in the field of spatial planning, aiming at explaining, resolving and supporting future public policy agendas. 

The aim of the study Transport Means and Infrastructure programme at University of Pardubice is the preparation of highly educated graduates who are able to solve the scientific and research tasks of basic and applied research related to issues of technical practice, especially in vehicles, electrical and electronic systems in transport and transport structures.

The Urban and Architectural Management and Valuations programme of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia was created as a consequence of the fusion of the Doctoral Programmes of Urban Management and Real Estate Valuations, coinciding with the creation of new doctoral studies within the UPC.