The masters' programme Urban Ecological Planning is primarily designed to address the real, on-the-ground, urban issues of the developing and industrialising world which is estimated to hold about 85% of world's population by 2050.

While the programme evolves constantly to reflect the current challenges of urbanisation, the core is to address and re-analyse different local and contextual urban planning issues in an alternative manner that rests on inclusionary, territorial, and incremental methods of cognition.