Master in Urban Planning and Territorial Development

Training

The training is organized in a modular way and according to a competency-based approach. The student goes through the different teaching units which constitute the training according to the rhythm that suits him, until the integrated test in which he must demonstrate through a synthesis work the transversal mastery of the skills he has acquired.

The question "How will men live here, tomorrow? Is the breadcrumb of the training. This is the purpose of urban planning courses in which the student is led to formulate his response in the form of a creative synthesis in an approach that is similar to that he will implement in his professional practice.

Around the course of project, gravitate the courses relating to the sciences, techniques, means and methods to which the planner refers and those relating to the bases which frame his activity.

In practice

The Ateliers Saint-Luc offer you social advancement training in the evening. Equivalent to a university master's degree of 120 credits, the master's degree in urban planning and regional planning is planned over a period of three years. However, the modular system makes it easy to spread out the studies.

Opportunities

The professional practice of urban planners is mainly exercised in the service of the public authorities, but it also includes missions for the private actors of territorial planning.

The planners exercise their profession:

• in public, academic or private research;
• in European, national, regional or local administrations;
• in public or parapublic planning organizations, such as urban planning agencies, intermunicipal bodies, etc .;
• in liberal practice, within their own design office or in multidisciplinary associations;
• in private consulting firms, such as environmental, town planning, landscape and urban planning offices, or architects and urban planners;
• in urban promotion, real estate and tourism.

Formation Structure

The Pedagogical File

See the file in pdf

Admission

Next school year: mid-September 2021

Registrations for the year 2021/2022 will be open from August . They will take place on site, at the secretariat of the Ateliers Saint-Luc (entrance via rue d'Irlande, 58 in Saint-Gilles).

The closing date for registration depends on the teaching units. They are specified on our website.

Conditions of admission

The Master in Urban Planning and Spatial Planning is accessible:

• holders of a bachelor's degree or equivalent, awarded by a Belgian university higher education institute;
• holders of a Belgian title superior to the transitional bachelor (master);
• to holders of a European master's degree.

It may also be accessible to holders of a bachelor's degree in non-university higher education (professional bachelor) or equivalent, as well as to holders of a foreign title, subject to an admission test .

The admission test aims to verify that the prerequisite qualifications required for admission to the first level teaching units (EU 21, 22 and 23) are acquired by the candidate. These prior capabilities are as follows:

From reference documents (report, article, book extract, etc.) relating to the multidisciplinarity of urbanism, the student will be able to:

• to carry out an analysis and a synthesis;
• to identify elements relevant to town planning and / or regional planning;
• to develop a reasoned critique.

From a reference text (article or book extract) relating to town planning and / or spatial planning, the student will be able to:

• to carry out an analysis and a synthesis;
• to identify the intentions and the elements structuring the reasoning;
• to develop a reasoned critique.

On the basis of representations commonly used in urban planning (plans, elevations, perspective sections, photographs, etc.) and concrete urban or territorial situations, the student will be able to:

• to understand the information translated in graphical and / or iconographic form;
• to demonstrate knowledge of the basic principles of graphic and iconographic representations practiced in urban planning (units, scale, orientation, etc.);
• to establish the correspondences between different graphic and / or iconographic representations of the same urban or territorial subject;
• to return in a graphic and / or iconographic form the main elements of a given urban or territorial situation.

Candidates are also required to present themselves with a letter of motivation when they present themselves for the admission test.

Registration fees

The cost of registration depends on the educational units followed by the student and his particular situation. The following amounts are included for information purposes: Isuru Registration Isuru 2018-2019

In particular, reductions are granted to jobseekers as well as to people receiving integration income.

Necessary documents

The student candidate must bring the following documents for the constitution of his registration file:

• the original of the previous diploma (s);
• a photocopy of his valid identity card or passport;
• his identity card or passport;
• a photo ID format;
• any certificates of exemption (registration as jobseeker, registration with the CPAS).

A registration form will have to be completed on site.

Isuru : Isuru INSTITUTE OF URBAN PLANNING AND RENOVATION

The Isuru , which trains urban planners since 1947, organizes since 2012 a Master in Urban Planning and Territorial Planning (120 ects).

This training is intended for holders of a higher education diploma (transition diploma, master) and professionals (continuing education).

The Isuru welcomes students from all disciplines (landscaping, sociology, architecture, environment, social and economic sciences, plastic arts, law, etc.).

The faculty consists of practitioners and teachers active in university and higher education, all networks combined.

The master is spread over three years, with courses given in the evening from 18h to 21h, which allows the exercise of a professional activity or the continuation of other studies in parallel.

information

The Higher Institute of Urban Planning and Renovation is a social promotion institution that is part of the Saint-Luc institutes in Brussels and organizes a Master's degree in urban planning. The Isuru was founded in 1947 by Henri Gillis, engineer-architect and Gaston Bardet, urban planner, in the context of reconstruction. These founders had the profession of urban planner and his teaching a humanist approach, multidisciplinary and rooted in the practice that is still today the foundation of values ​​of the institute.

Isuru collaborates with other institutes of urban planning in Belgium (UCL, ULB) and abroad including the Institute of planning and urban planning of the University of Lille 2.

Isuru actively participates in training networks in urban planning: APERAU (Association for the Promotion of Education and Research in Planning and Urban Planning) and AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning).

Isuru also maintains close ties with the professional environment in order to be in line with the expectations of the profession. As such, the Isuru participates in the brainstorming sessions of the Chamber of Urban Planners of Belgium, the European Council of Town Planners and ALUMNISU, the association which brings together its "alumni" (alumni, Isuru @ gmail.com).