What should the landscape of the future look like? Houses on stilts, apartments with green roofs and facades, and no motorised traffic in city centres? Rainwater retention basins, more indigenous tree species in parks, and fewer paved surfaces in cities? What solutions do you have for housing and other challenges facing spatial planners? If you want to study spatial planning at VU Amsterdam, you can choose from a wide range of programmes.
Perhaps you are fascinated by the Earth System and want to know what is causing the increasing problems. Or maybe you want to explore the tensions between conservation and transformation of landscapes and urban areas, and how architecture and archaeological heritage play a role in this. You might also be interested in the social, political and economic aspects of environmental change, or in looking at spatial planning from an ecological perspective, from that of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria and environmental systems. Or perhaps you want to become an interdisciplinary environmentalist, geologist or heritage specialist, providing effective solutions for a more sustainable world. At VU Amsterdam, this is all possible. Spatial planning is about ecology, soil, hydrology, geography, history, public policy and economics. Choose to study spatial planning at VU Amsterdam and observe how these things change over time.
Choose a programme in spatial planning at VU Amsterdam
Find out which Bachelor's and Master's programmes include spatial planning in their curriculum and come study at VU Amsterdam. Make sure to check out the ‘Future’ tab of the programme webpage if you want to know what you can do after your studies. We hope to see you at one of our online activities or at an education fair abroad!
