Handbook

In this course, you will reflect on your professional experience, consolidate your appreciation of the complexity of planning and development practices, and develop more nuanced insights into the theoretical underpinnings of city planning. You will debate contemporary planning issues, informed by both your studies and work experience; integrating both your academic and professional networks. You will also be given unprecedented opportunity to integrate your professional and academic networks, through course components that you will undertake with your employer, and share with your peers and their employers.

Central to the practice year experience, this course will guide you through your first role in the planning sector, provoke you to draw upon your own experiences to think more critically about the planning sector’s complexity and competing objectives, and inform your development as a planning professional. You will bring real world examples of the opportunities and challenges of your professional placement into the classroom, and learn from the diversity of other students’ experiences, to integrate insights across theory and practice.