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 two books: Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance (Springer, 2020) and Planning Regional Futures (Routledge, 2022) and is currently co-editing Planning for Urban Sustainability (Edward Elgar, 2024).

Daniel serves on the editorial boards of four planning journals: Planning Practice & Research, Nordic Journal of Urban Studies, European Journal of Spatial Development, and Urban Planning. During 2017–2023, he was Chair of the Excellence in Education Board and a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). He has been visiting professor in the School of Urban Planning at McGill University and the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies at the Catholic University of Chile.

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:

Urban Planning & Management (Aalborg)

• Planning History & Urban Theory (5 ECTS)
• Planning Theory (5 ECTS)
• The Deliberative Planner (5 ECTS)
• The Complex City (15 ECTS)
• Power & Planning (15 ECTS)

Sustainable Cities (Copenhagen)

• Urban Infrastructure Synergies (5 ECTS)
• Water Management, Transport Planning & Infrastructure Synergies (15 ECTS)

Surveying, Planning & Land Management (Copenhagen)

• Spatial Planning & Governance (5 ECTS)
• Land Management (15 ECTS)