UP SURP, through its Executive Committee and in consultation with its faculty, has formulated this research and extension agenda organized according to areas of specialization of the School’s program clusters:

Environment and Natural Resource Planning

• Planning the NIPAS areas
• Biodiversity-enhanced ancestral domain management planning
• Sustainable upland management technologies and practices
• Sloping agricultural land technologies (SALT)
• Agro-forestry
• Biodiversity Conservation Planning and Management
• Biodiversity-sensitive farming systems
• Biodiversity-friendly enterprises and livelihoods
• Urban Biodiversity
• Biodiversity-focused Strategic Environmental Assessment
• Protected Areas Planning
• Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Local Plans
• Biodiversity Finance Modalities
• Inland Waters Planning and Management
• Lake and river fish farming
• Solid, Hazardous and Infectious Waste Management
• Geopark for Sustainable Regional Development
• Ridge to Reef Approach to natural resource management
• Watershed planning and management
• Coastal resource management
• Forest land use planning and Management
• Urban Forestry
• Urban Agriculture
• Ecological landscape land suitability assessment

Estate Planning

• Public Housing
• Socialized Housing
• Planning Resilient Retreat and Upgrading (Resettlement Planning)
• Public Rental Housing
• Economic Shelter Planning
• Land Management for Public Housing Development
• Public Housing and Land Management (Right-of-Way Acquisition for Government Infrastructure Projects)
• City Shelter Planning
• Climate Adaptive and Disaster Resilient Settlements
• Ecotourism/Agro-Ecotourism Planning
• Retirement/ Leisure Estate Planning/Leisure Farm Planning
• Education Tourism Planning
• Medical Tourism Planning
• Rural Tourism Planning
• Spatial Planning for Culture and the Arts
• Heritage Conservation and Planning
• Local Tourism Master Planning
• Heritage and Cultural Property Conservation Planning
• Adaptive Reuse Planning
• Urban Waterfront Planning
• Parks and Outdoor Recreation Planning
• Sustainable Development Goal Oriented Planning: Human well-being and friendly social space
• Leisure Farms Planning
• Planning Special Economic Zones and Free Ports/Free Trade Zones
• Agricultural Estates
• Industrial Parks
• Tourism Enterprise/Economic Zones
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Agro-industrial Economic Zones
• Information and Telecommunications Parks in the Urban Economic Space
• Planning for Special Use Zones
• Planning of Government Centers/Regional Centers
• University/Campus Planning
• Sports and Recreation Planning
• Government Health Centers Planning
• University Town Planning
• Mixed Use Development
• Open Space Network Planning
• Urban Green Space Planning/Green Infrastructure Planning
• Functional Open Space Planning (Parks and Outdoor Space, Easements and Islands)
• Rural Development/Agricultural Development
• Food Security Planning
• Agro-industrialization
• Green Agriculture
• Planning Gentleman’s Farm
• Urban Development/Urbanization/Urban Renewal
• Urban Regeneration
• Urban Financing
• Urban Governance
• Smart City Development
• Green City Development
• Transit-oriented Developments in Developing City-Regions
• Green Urban Design
• Land, Land Investment and Asset Management
• Real Estate Valuation and Management
• Land Administration and Management
• Land Governance and Taxation
• Highest and Best Use
• Land Conversion
• Landbanking
• Land Resource Financing
• Land Information System
• Land Market Development
• Land Conflict Management
• Other Emerging Topics/Multi-Disciplinary in Estate Planning
• Low Carbon Cities
• Planning for PWDs
• Post-disaster Rehabilitation Planning
• Slum Upgrading
• Participatory Planning/ Community-driven Planning
• Sustainable Development Goals
• Migration and Development
• Gender-sensitive Estate Planning
• Informal Settlement Growth and Management
• Human Settlements Development
• Green Economy
• Green Financing
• Creative Place-making
• Public-Private Partnership
• Social Engineering
• Indigenous Communities
• Planning of Smart Cities
• Innovation and Innovation Planning
• Planning for Disruptive Technology Change
• Tools for Estate Planning
• GIS Modeling of Human Settlements Development
• Smart Technologies and Shared Data, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things in Planning Smart Cities
• Modeling Spatial Interactions for Planning Metropolitan Centers/Regions
• Spatial Analysis Models

Public Works Planning

• Water-sensitive urban design
• Combined Septage-Sewerage
• Drainage Master Planning
• Flood Control/Management
• Planning for spaces and facilities for the differently-abled
• Funding and/or Financing Public Infrastructure
• Environmental Impacts of Public Infrastructure
• Planning Renewal Energy Use
• Metropolitan or Regional Infrastructure Planning
• Equality and Equity in Infrastructure Planning
• Spatial Analysis and Modelling of Infrastructures un Urban Service Delivery
• Water Resources Development
• Development Financing Models in Planning for Sustainable Metropolitan Waterworks Systems

Transportation Planning

• Transit-Oriented Development
• Pedestrian-oriented transport mobility
• Traffic Management
• Mass Transit, Transit-Oriented Development, and Land Value Capture
• Use of Big Data in Transport Planning
• Smart City Applications in Transport
• Environmentally Sustainable Transport
• Equality and Equity in Transport Planning
• Public transport supply and demand
• Inter-island travel demand
• Mobility in cities
• Non-motorized transport and pedestrians
• International, regional, sub-regional, city logistics
• Low-carbon transport systems development
• PPP modalities for transport system development
• Regulation and integration potentialities of informal transport systems
• Humanitarian Logistics
• Travel demand and telecommuting

General Areas/Integrative Planning/Multi-disciplinary

• Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (natural and manmade)
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Post-Disaster Rehabilitation and Recovery Planning
• Local Economic Plan
• Culture and Arts
• Food Security Plan
• Public Order and Safety Plan
• Local Poverty Action
• Child-responsive urban planning
• Gender-Fair Planning (e.g. social infrastructure, solid-waste management system)
• Plan Financing Schemes (e.g. Green Financing)
• Smart Urban Technologies
• Blue-Green Infrastructure
• Social Justice
• Climate Justice
• Circular Economy
• Renewable Energy
• Urban Green Spaces
• Planning for Resiliency
• Data, Information and Knowledge Management
• Local Development Planning
• Social Behavioral Change and Communication (SBCC)
• VR Innovation and Application in Urban and Regional Planning