Welcome to the Department of Environmental Planning.

A career in planning offers exciting opportunities in exploiting the opportunities and tackling the problems
that face contemporary society. Planners play important roles in urban regeneration, promoting sustainable development, developing sustainable transport policies, and local economic development. These roles increasingly involve partnerships between public and private sectors.

Glasgow is a very appropriate place to study planning. The surrounding region has developed many innovations, ranging from Robert Owen's visionary planned settlement at New Lanark, to the New Towns of Cumbernauld and East Kilbride. The city itself pioneered new approaches to urban regeneration in the 1980s and 1990s.

Environmental Planning at the University of Strathclyde provides a great opportunity to study these and contemporary developments. Students benefit from a supportive, learning environment. They will work on practical projects, group activities, and field trips in addition to studying the appropriate theories. And they will acquire knowledge, understanding, and skill sets that employers value.

Glasgow and Scotland are international in their outlook. The Department has links with universities in Australia, Canada, China, Germany and the USA, and there will be opportunities to spend some time studying in another country through field trips and student exchange schemes.

Students learn about planning practice and how it is evolving in the newly-devolved United Kingdom and in
other parts of the world. They learn through a variety of modes including lectures, seminars,tutorials, field trips and group work.

Glasgow is an exciting city in which to live and study, and this is reflected not only in the courses but also in a vibrant social life, both in and outwith the department.

The following pages provide more information about the staff and the students, and about the courses which are available.

I hope that you choose to come and study with us, and I look forward to welcoming you to the Department.

Professor John Fairley

Head of Department.

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