Politecnico di Torino - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning
Introduction
The Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) is the reference structure of the Polytechnic and the University of Turin in the cultural areas that study the processes of transformation and governance of the territory from the global to the local scale, considered in its physical, economic, social, political, cultural aspects and their interrelations, in a perspective of sustainability.
The DIST department is the point of reference for Turin’s Polytechnic and University in the cultural areas dealing with spatial transformation and spatial governance processes, from the local to the planetary scale. The department, focusing on the urban issue with a sustainability perspective, promotes theoretical and applied research, teaching, and knowledge transfer.
The DIST department, among the 180 funded, possesses peculiar features that will help to reach the objectives of the Excellence Project:
- It is an interuniversity department and, for the first time during the Project selection process, it has been considered in its entirety;
- It is the department with the highest degree of knowledge sectors diversity within the Polytechnic, and the third within the University of Turin;
- It has a new Departmental Strategic Plan (2020-2023), being among the first departments to draft a strategic plan in the 2014-2020 period.