Inside Urban Development Planning MSc
The Urban Development Planning MSc equips urban practitioners with the clarity and capacity to tackle multi-dimensional inequalities and promote more just urban futures for all city dwellers.
About the course
The Urban Development Planning MSc nurtures urban practitioners with the capacity to catalyse and support collective interventions towards more equitable urban futures. Building on longstanding partnerships with civil society networks, academic institutions, local and regional government agencies and global organisations (such as UN Habitat), our programme critically engages a southern planning lens to reclaim the transformative potential of planning.
We operate from the standpoint that reclaiming this potential is crucial for cities and city dwellers to capture the opportunities of urbanisation in ways that meet the multiple and overlapping threats posed by climate breakdown, deepening socio-economic inequalities, democratic disengagement, and violent displacements.
Relevant to recent graduates, current professionals and career changers alike, this degree is designed to equip a new generation of urban development practitioners with analytical and practical tools that will enable them to respond strategically to these overlapping challenges within a framework of socio-spatial-environmental justice.
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Overseas practice engagements
Each year, our students engage in fieldwork as part of an overseas practice engagement.
London projects
Each year, Urban Development Planning MSc students engage in a UK practice engagement.
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