The development of planning education and its relation to the ...

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European Studies
Methods & Information
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Economics
Policy/Institutional Context
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Environment
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Physical Geography
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Cultural Geography
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Figure 1. Types of departments based on types of courses.
Departments. The sixth position is occupied by theory and history, courses which have this
position mainly because of the Architecture Departments followed by housing and infrastructure
courses which have this position mainly because of the Planning Departments. The eighth
position is occupied by physical geography courses which are dominating in the Geology/
Physics/Positive and Geotechnic Sciences/Forestry Departments (Figure 1).
The majority of courses are taught in the Planning Departments, followed, with a large
difference, by Architecture and, perhaps surprisingly, by Civil and Rural and Surveying
Engineering Departments. In the Primary Education/Foreign Languages/History Departments
the dominant type of course is theory and history, which is also dominant, along with
spatial and regional planning, in the Political Science/Law/Administration/Social Anthropology
Departments (Figure 2).
If the departments are grouped in three types, then the vast majority of courses are taught
in the Planning/Geography/Architecture Departments, in which case the dominant type of
course is urban planning. The second position is occupied by the Environment/Natural
Sciences/Engineering Departments, in which case the dominant type of course is physical
geography. Fewer courses are taught in the Social Sciences Departments, in which case the
dominant type of course is economics (Figure 3).
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Figure 2. Types of courses based on types of departments (nine).