Daniel Galland

Research profile

Daniel Galland is Associate Professor in the Department of Planning at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. His research and scholarship are bound by an interest in the drivers of change shaping urban and regional planning institutions, policies and practices, and the modes of spatial intervention emerging as a result.

His current work investigates how the essence, content and styles of planning transition - with a focus on implications at the regional scale. Recently completed international projects include:

Planning and Governing the Metropolis (ARL: German Academy of Spatial Research and Planning) Nordic Planning Styles in Urban & Regional Governance (NOS-HS: Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences) Urban Planning and Governance Styles (Research Council of Norway) Evaluating Spatial Planning Practices with Digital Plan Data (ESPON) Daniel serves on the editorial boards of three planning journals (Nordic Journal of Urban Studies, European Journal of Spatial Development, and Urban Planning) and is co-editor of Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance (Springer 2020) and Planning Regional Futures (Regional Studies 2021).

Since 2017, he has been Executive Committee Member of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), where he chairs the Excellence in Education Board and is responsible for AESOP's Quality Recognition Programme.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Planning and Development 2008 → 2011

Master of Philosophy, Ethics and Politics, University of Barcelona 2006 → 2007

Master of Science, Environmental Studies, University of British Columbia 2001 → 2004