Daniel Galland

Associate Professor, PhD in Planning and Development

  • A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, A, 2 096

    2450 København SV

    Denmark

20082024

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Personal profile

Research profile

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.

Teaching profile

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

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Planning and Development

20082011

Master of Philosophy, Ethics and Politics, University of Barcelona

20062007

Master of Science, Environmental Studies, University of British Columbia

20012004

External positions

Executive Committee Member, AESOP

20172023

Chair, Excellence in Education Board, AESOP

20172023

Member of the Council of Representatives, AESOP

20142018

Visiting Scholar, School of Urban Planning, McGill University

20132014

Keywords

  • Architecture and Spatial Planning
  • urban and regional planning
  • planning history and theory
  • planning and time
  • planning education
  • international comparative planning
  • spatial planning

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