Department of Urban Planning and Environment
Our department consists of three divisions and is focused specifically on Urban and Regional studies; Geoinformatics and Geodesy, and Transport and Systems Analysis.
The area of expertise includes research on systems, models and tools for understanding, preserving, changing, managing and developing society, the land and the built environment. The ambition is to analyze the prerequisites, conditions and strategies for sustainable social development, both in national and international context.
The department belongs to the School of Architecture and the Built Environment.
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Upcoming
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Public defences of doctoral theses
Friday 2025-09-26, 10:00
Location: Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, Stockholm
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/68550178129
Doctoral student: Devika Prakash , Urbana och regionala studier
2025-09-26T10:00:00.000+02:00 2025-09-26T10:00:00.000+02:00 From Chaos to Control (Rooms) (Public defences of doctoral theses) Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, Stockholm (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)From Chaos to Control (Rooms) (Public defences of doctoral theses)
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