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Regional PlanningRegional Science/Spatial PlanningInstitutionLocationCourse focusKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)(Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology (KIT)),Institute for Regional ScienceLocated on the Rhine plain in the southwest of Germany between theBlack Forest and the Vosges Mountains (France), the city of Karlsruhewith its distinct fan-shaped layout dating back to the Baroque era wasfounded in 1715. As a cultural centre of transregional importance,Karlsruhe is home to two German national courts and has, in recentyears, emerged as one of Germany’s leading technology hubs.There is a wide array of higher education institutions, including thenewly founded KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), a fusion of theUniversity of Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe Research Centre, the Universityof Applied Sciences (Hochschule Karlsruhe), the Universityof Education (Pädagogische Hochschule), the Academy of Fine Arts(Akademie für Bildende Künste), and the Karlsruhe University of Artsand Design (Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung) in conjunction withthe Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie).23,000 students are non-German. As part of the KIT, the Institute forRegional Science (IfR) represents a national and international contactpoint with regard to teaching and research for those ambitious towork in regional science and spatial planning or further their educationMany public measures affecting space, especially large-scale infrastructureprojects such as dams, power plants, roads, railway lines,new cities or new urban quarters are rightly regarded as impressiveengineering achievements. In retrospect, however, they often appearto be the result of faulty or incomplete planning. The reason for this isthat despite being perfect in terms of technical execution, these projectsfail to consider the manifold factors that may contradict the envisagedgoal on the local and regional level.In fact, any planning activity and any public measure with regard tospace also affects regional social systems, the regional economy andthe complex interplay of a region’s natural factors – its regional ecology.Therefore, a sustainable spatial planning approach needs to detectand coordinative planning on the local, regional, and internationallevel.The mission of the Institute for Regional Science (IfR) is to apply thisbroad approach to spatial planning in both its research and teachingactivities, a mission which is successfully realised in the IfR’s internationallyaccredited Master’s Course in “Regional Science / SpatialPlanning”. Since 2006, students from all over the world have completedthis programme and have taken up leading and expert positionswith national and international employers.67