In addition to three core modules, optional modules totaling 75 units are taken. The starred *modules listed below are designed particularly for the Urban Studies MSc.
>>Please note that these modules are subject to staff availability and space capacity<<
TERM 1 (Core modules: Urban Imaginations and Cities, Space and Power)
Optional modules include:- *Social Science Research Methodologies - compulsory for students without social science training

- *London: Aspects of Change - not running 2020/21

- *Art in the Public Sphere 

- *Cities in Eastern Europe

- Comparative Planning Systems and Cultures

- Data, Politics and Society
- Engineering and International Development
- Infrastructures as Agents of Change 

- Pillars of Planning A
- Planning Discourses for Urban Development in Historic Cities and Neighbourhoods
- Planning Practices in Europe 

- Spatial Planning: Concepts and Contexts 

- The City and its Relations: Context, Institutions and Actors in Urban Development Planning 30 units, two term commitment
- Sustainable Infrastructure and Services in Development
- Transforming Local Areas: Urban Design for Development (30 units, two term commitment)
- Urban Regeneration: Urban Problems and Problematics 

- Urban Systems Theory
TERM 2 (Core module: Urban Practices)
Optional modules include:- Adapting Cities to Climate Change in the South
- Advanced Geopolitics
- Anthropology of the Built Environment
- Anthropology and Photography
- Case Studies in Preparing Regeneration Projects Must take BPLN0065 in T1
- *Cities and Climate Change
- Civic Design
- Critical Introduction to Sexuality Studies
- Critical Urbanism Studio II - Investigative Design Strategies for Contested Spaces
- *Creative Cities
- Food and the City
- *Geographies of Material Culture - not running 2020/21

- Health and Wellbeing in Cities: Theory and Practice
- *Histories of Global London, 1900 to the Present
- *The Latin American City: Social Problems and Social Change in Urban Space
- Materialist Ecological Architecture
- Migratory Activisms, Creative Citizenships
- Pillars of Planning B
- Planning Practice
- Planning Practices for Urban Development in Historic Cities and Neighbourhoods need to do BPLN0067
- *Postcolonial Cultural Geographies
- Practical Documentary Film Making - extra fee
- *Public and Private Modernities . Also available as a 30 unit module 

- *Public Space and the City - not running 2020/21
- Representation of Cities (30 units, equivalent of 2 modules)
- Smart Cities: Context, Policy and Government
- *Social Science Research Methodologies II
- Social Theory and the Study of Contemporary Social Problems
- Sustainable Infrastructures and Public Policy
- Transforming Local Areas (need to take in term 1 as well)
- *Urban Innovation and Policy
- Urban Planning in China
- Urbanisation and Development
