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FAG3164 Planning Theory 7.5 credits

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Information for Autumn 2025 Start 25 Aug 2025 programme students

Course location

KTH Campus

Duration
25 Aug 2025 - 12 Jan 2026
Periods
P1 (3.5 hp), P2 (4.0 hp)
Pace of study

25%

Application code

50519

Form of study

Normal Daytime

Language of instruction

English

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Course syllabus as PDF

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Course syllabus FAG3164 (Spring 2019–)
Headings with content from the Course syllabus FAG3164 (Spring 2019–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

The course is based on individual readings of selected texts of the different strands in pkanning theory, as a base for discussions and excercises at the seminars. The students are expected to throughout the corse write notes on how their own subject and research relates to the readings. The examination consist of participation in the seminars, and an elaborated text, positioning the research in the tradition of planning theory and research. The text should be written as a part of the theoretical section in a dissertation, and the subject will decide theoretical concepts and authors used in each individual final examination.  

Intended learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student will be able to:

-describe historical and contemporary development  in the field of planning theory

- identify, explain and use central concepts from planning theory

- discuss the relation between theory and methodology

- discuss and evaluate the use and value of theory in relation to planning practice

- critically analyse theoretical texts and place them in a wider context of theoretical traditions

-position and relate own research to relevant strands of the wider historical context of planning theory and planning research

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

Participants need to be accepted into a PhD programme.

Recommended prerequisites

Participants need to be accepted into a PhD programme.

Literature

Allmendinger Phil 2009 Planning Theory. Palgrave Macmillan (2:a upplagan)

Ett urval vetenskapliga artiklar som representerar klassiska texter och de senaste centrala texterna och temana inom området - en läslista distribueras i anslutning till antagningen

Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

P, F

Examination

  • PRO1 - Project work, 7.5 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

If dissertation language is swedish, the final written examination can be done in swedish, but the oral presentation and discussion should be in english

Other requirements for final grade

Participation in course seminars

Written text with theoretical positioning, to be presented and discussed at the final seminar

Examiner

Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

Main field of study

This course does not belong to any Main field of study.

Education cycle

Third cycle

Postgraduate course

Postgraduate courses at ABE/Urban and Regional Studies