Individual courses of NSL or external offers; specific topics completing the courses of the MAS-program.

The subject of the study project in the second year is the dependency between surface and subsurface in spatial planning. The topic, clarification of potentials and missing instruments, legal situation in spatial planning are highly topical. Excursion to existing projects and with guided tours and presentations, consolidation of the bases for interdisciplinary group work.

State structure, legal system and negotiation processes related hereto shape the dynamics in the production of space and the image of landscapes, infrastructures and settlements. Spatially relevant legal provisions can provide impulses as design factors when planning spaces and territories at different scales and with different degrees of urbanization.

Understanding what scientific work means in spatial planning. Procedures for clarification processes; basics of scientific working and writing; case studies and exercises.

Exploring, clarifying and solving of a task of spatial relevance abroad; spatial planning analysis (goals and problems, potentials and risks, strengths and weaknesses); concept design (goals and measures); program development (factual and time priorities); preparation for implementation (instruments and procedures) independent group work, when indicated in collaboration with local students.

Development of strategies for sustainable development in the City of Lucerne: spatial planning analysis of the situation (goals and problems, potentials and risks, strengths and weaknesses); concept design (goals and measures); program development (objective and temporal priorities); preparation for implementation (instruments and procedures) independent group work.

Conceiving strategies for sustainable spatial development in the Geneva Lake-Fribourg-Bern region: spatial planning analysis of the situation (goals and problems, potentials and risks, strengths and weaknesses); concept design (goals and measures); program development (factual and timel priorities); preparation for implementation (instruments and proceedings); independent team work.