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), Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance (Springer 2020). Currently, he is co-authoring (w/ J Harrison and M Tewdwr-Jones) Regions in Evolution: A History of Regional Planning  and co-editing (w/ M Freudendal & J Iuel-Stissing) Planning for Urban Sustainability.

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 served as Chair of the Excellence in Education Board and was 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 in Montréal.

Teaching profile

Daniel instructs master's level courses (5 ECTS) and supervises project modules (15 ECTS) and thesis projects (30 ECTS) across master's specialisations:

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