A student who passed this course will be able to:
- identify the key stages and dynamics of "urban policy process"
- identify the role and place of "planning as a mode of policymaking" in the practice of local and central governments.
- empirically examine the feasibility of "urban planning as a policy instrument" as employed by authorities to address given concrete policy problems.
- formulate nuanced research questions and proposals pertaining to "social exclusion", "production of built environment" and "economic development" as three major urban policy concerns.
- construct an analytical framework to conduct "urban policy analysis"
- prepare a policy research proposal
- conduct "policy analysis" targeting a concrete urban policy problem.
- gather and/or produce empirical information required to evaluate a given urban policy issue/program
- establish connections between a theoretical framework and the empirical material collected via field research.
- develop a critical evaluation of a given urban policy so as to identify policy alternatives.