Demonstrate an understanding of the challenges and opportunities of comparative analysis utilising the comparative frameworks encouraged in the module via the lectures and seminar discussions.

Comparative Planning Systems and Cultures

– Have the capacity to answer a question precisely, synthetically, clearly and in a structured way;

– Demonstrate an understanding of the challenges and opportunities of comparative analysis utilising the comparative frameworks encouraged in the module via the lectures and seminar discussions;
– Demonstrate an understanding of a number of planning systems and cultures across the world;
– Demonstrate a sensitivity for the context-specific nature of planning and the legal, social, political, economic and/or environmental conditions underpinning planning systems, cultures, policies and practices in the different contexts examined;
– Observe patterns of convergence and divergence between planning systems, policies and practices in various parts of the world;

– Demonstrate knowledge of the professional and academic debates regarding the global circulation of planning ideas, models and practices.