Urban and Regional Development

Overview

Why Politecnico? 

• A large number of scholarships available

• Scholarship amount: € 18.854,52 gross per year

• Scholarships are increased by 50% for study periods abroad; 

• An allowance is provided to all PhD students for mobility abroad;

• Maternity leave paid

• High quality research
• International experience

• Joint research activity with the non-academic sector 

The Urban and Regional Development programme at  Politecnico di Torino is designed to train highly-qualified specialists in urban and territorial development, while promoting the appropriate exploitation of their individual talents, to develop a distinctly multidisciplinary figure, a professional able to adapt to a wide variety of scientific knowledge and areas in a flexible and dynamic way.  

The offered training will therefore give to PhD students the possibility to exploit specific skills acquired, to effectively interact with other professionals participating in urban and regional planning projects. Based on multi- and inter-disciplinary PhD skills, the programme intends to move fluidly through the conventional boundaries that separate social sciences from applied technical, engineering, physical-natural sciences.

In order to train specialists who are able to effectively navigate in the global context, the doctoral programme should adopt also a strong international nature, both in the sense of attracting young motivated and qualified scholars from abroad, as well as offering to students a training which corresponds to the highest academic and professional standards, also thank to the contribution of foreign scholars and the organisations of internships in highly qualified institutions. 

To stay coherent with the adopted approach the training activity is also developed entirely in English.

Career 

The programme is focused on training high-profile scholars and professionals in the field of urban and regional development, which could aspire to an academic career or management positions in public or private structures, related to planning and management of transformation processes that affect the cities, the territory and the environment (detection, monitoring, analysis, evaluation, planning and management of the urban systems, territorial and environmental, infrastructure and transport systems, the transformation works of the soil and subsoil). 

The programme is based on the acknowledgement of the young people ambition to look beyond national borders, both while completing their educational and academic training, and while searching for a job.

Research Proposals:

• Spatial Planning Systems and EU Territorial Governance

• Geomatics and Emergency Management

• Urban Planning and Urban Project

• The Cultural and Social Economy of Post-recession Turin in a Comparative Perspective

• Geo-statistical Tools for Geospatial Mapping Pollution Monitoring

• Urban and Regional Studies

• Methods and Procedures to Generate 3D GIS for Smart City: Security and Safety

• Innovative Methods and Approaches for 3D City Modeling Based on Mass Market System and Crowdsourcing, for Urban Planning and Cultural Heritage

• Decision Support Systems toward Post-carbon City

• 10 Physical Exchange Processes in the Soil and the Surface Boundary Layer

• Environment and Landscape Policies, Planning and Evaluation

• Transport and mobility