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This program is proposed as a basic body of specific contents required for Territorial Planning. The city, the territory, is the place where the set of economic, cultural and social relations is expressed. The traditional notions of living, working and leisure, characteristics of rationalist urbanism, have added a set of increasingly complex aspects. These require defining in another way the role of the traditional professions involved in urban and territorial planning, as well as those related to the sustainable development of natural spaces and the processes of artificialization of the territory. Some of the aspects that take a growing importance in the management and sustainable management of the territory are the crisis of the industrial production system, the processes of division of labor within tertiary activity, the irruption of ICT, economic development with the criterion of sustainability, changes in the demographic structure of the population, migrations on a planetary scale, territorial suburbanization and the progressive consumption of land, the interdependence and competition of the economy and territories on a global scale, the new social habits in the trade and leisure, the changes experienced in transport infrastructure and mobility, etc.
In opposition to these new challenges of contemporary society, stands out the stagnation of traditional professions, in which the transformations of degree continue anchored, in our country, in the situation generated with industrialization. Architects, geographers, industrial and road engineers, sociologists, among others, continue to be university degrees more related to design and management, not having appeared in Spain, new professional expressions trained to plan the complexity of the territory that characterizes the XXI century.
In the case of foreign students, or Spanish non-architects; Without knowledge of the Legal Framework of Planning and Urban Management in Spain, it is recommended the realization of the subject Introduction to Spanish Urban Law, which provides a set of introductory contents that ensure a common minimum knowledge base, very useful for the future realization of the postgraduate.