The Romanian Professional Association of Urban Planners (APUR) is a professional, non-governmental, apolitical and non-profit organization. The association is formed by specialists working in the interdisciplinary domain of urban and territorial planning.
APUR has the following objectives:
- Promoting the status of the specialist in the domain of urban and territorial planning
- Defining the role and importance of urban and territorial planning in the society’s existence and evolution, promoting interdisciplinarity as a principle of theory and practice in the domain.
- Achieving a balance between public and private interests in urban and territorial planning, within a sustainable development context.
- Raising the professional competence of its members and of all specialists in the domain of urban and territorial planning; support and involvement in the process of training professionals.
- Defending or exercising copyrights in research and design activities in urban and territorial planning.
- Assuming an active role in society.
- International representation of specialists in urban and territorial planning.