Master's students present visions for Landskrona's development
Master's students and teachers from Stockholm University, together with students and colleagues from Leibniz Universität Hannover, Université de Tours, and Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, have spent a week in Landskrona developing proposals for how the city could develop sustainably.
Students and teachers on a field trip in Lund. Photo: Peter Schmitt, Stockholm University.
The field course is part of a BIP – a blended intensive programme within Erasmus+. Most of the students from Stockholm University who participated are studying in the Master's programme in Urban and Regional Planning. The BIP is a short, intensive programme where transnational and transdisciplinary student teams work on challenges linked to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and other societal challenges in cities and regions. The current field course had the theme of planning challenges in small and medium-sized cities, and was conducted in Landskrona.
Nine students from Stockholm University presented proposals for Landskrona together with 28 other students. The proposals included, among other things, a network of green corridors, a revitalized citadel, and ideas for new cycle paths, meeting places, and better connections between the city center and the old industrial area as well as the new station area. The week concluded with them presenting their results to the public and some of the municipality's urban planners and local politicians at Folkets Hus.
"One of the finest city centers I've seen," commented Nathalie Röthe about Landskrona's city center to Helsingborgs Dagblad, which was there to write about the project.
Lorenz Proske and Ewen Puill agreed and feel that the city has been burdened with an undeserved bad reputation. "It seems like a nice place to live, especially with Malmö and Lund so close. Cities of similar size in France are not nearly as nice," Ewen Puill told HD.
The BIP has previously been conducted in other European cities of similar size.
About the Master's programme in Urban and Regional Planning
The Master's programme in Urban and Regional Planning, which comprises 120 credits, is an interdisciplinary programme aimed at those who want to gain in-depth knowledge of, and for, Urban and Regional planning in Sweden and internationally. The programme combines theoretical knowledge with practical application, where field studies are a central part of the education that gives students the opportunity to work with real planning challenges in an international environment.
Landskrona harbor. Photo: Anders Rickegård, Stockholm University.
Last updated: 2026-03-26
Source: Department of Human Geography