ABSTRACT
This contribution addresses diversity issues in urban planning education from the Italian context, with a specific focus on the trajectory of the Master of Science in Urban Planning and Policy Design (UPPD) at Politecnico di Milano. This chapter is dedicated to grounding diversity issues—and their possible meanings and understandings—in the Italian context of planning education and the implications and challenges of a planning pedagogy open to diversity. The case of the UPPD degree program is used to provide some in-depth considerations when dealing with a class of students increasingly diverse in terms of nationality and educational background.
