- Legal foundations in environmental and general building law (EU law, federal and state law, municipal statutes) as well as in specialist planning law
- Land use planning, development planning, specialist planning, special planning
- Planning processes, participation procedures
- Functions in the city, development and construction methods, the city as a living space
- Transport development and urban development
- Interaction between urban land-use planning and transport
- Spatial planning such as inner-city development, development of residential and commercial locations
- Urban ecology