Forskningsprofil

Daniel Galland is Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Sustainability and Planning at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark. His research broadly focuses on historical and contemporary drivers of change and continuity shaping urban and regional planning institutions from an international comparative perspective. He has recently co-edited Planning Regional Futures (Routledge 2022) and Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance (Springer 2020). Currently, he is co-authoring (w/ John Harrison and Mark Tewdwr-Jones) Regions in Evolution: A History of Regional Planning  (Routledge, contracted)

Daniel serves on the editorial boards of three planning journals: Planning Practice & Research, Nordic Journal of Urban Studies, and European Journal of Spatial Development. From 2017 to 2023, he was Chair of the Excellence in Education Board and an Executive Committee member of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). He has also been a visiting scholar in the School of Urban Planning at McGill University in Montréal.

Undervisningsprofil

Daniel instructs master's level courses (5 ECTS) and supervises project modules (15 ECTS) and thesis projects (30 ECTS) across three master's specialisations (Sustainable Cities; Urban Planning & Management; Land Management):

Course modules (5 ECTS)

• Planning History & Urban Theory
• Spatial Planning & Governance
• Planning Theory
• The Deliberative Planner
• Urban Infrastructure Synergies

Project modules (15 ECTS)

• Land Management
• The Complex City
• Power & Planning
• Urban Infrastructure Synergies