It is the job of urban and regional planners to recognise the possibilities and restraints of urban and regional development, to find solutions for concrete problems and shape strategies for sustained development. This entails knowledge of conceptual design.

Training involves teaching a competent approach to planning issues as well as technical knowledge and proficiency in spatial thinking. Learning the feasibility, transfer and co-ordination of ideas at administrative level, as well as with experts and laypeople is also important for the profession.

1. Requirements: Bachelor of Science
2. In depth study of scientific and practice-relevant methods, expertise and skills
3. Instruction in the critical and reflected application of scientific methods and expertise
4. Students receive an outline of the interrelations within the subject
5. Students learn to work independently on project designs
6. Instruction in key skills such as teamwork, presentation techniques and rhetoric

The Masters' degree qualifies the student to work independently as an urban and regional planner

It is prerequisite for registration in the architectural association’s list of urban planners of EU member states.

"not the thing itself should be planned, only the framework"
(Max Frisch, in Achtung die Schweiz, in conversation with Lucius Burckhardt and Markus Kutter, 1954).

It is the job of urban and regional planners to recognise the possibilities and restraints of urban and regional development, to find solutions for concrete problems and shape strategies for sustained development.