- Planning system in Germany: planning levels, responsibilities and legal foundations
- Instruments of spatial planning (federal, state and regional planning, urban land use planning)
- Instruments of environmental planning and environmental assessment
- Instruments of sectoral planning (sectoral development plans, plan approval, plan approval)
- Relationship between overall spatial planning - environmental planning - spatially relevant sectoral planning
- Planning processes and procedures, participation procedures
- Determinants of spatial and settlement development
