Urban Design and Planning MA

The MA Urban Design and Planning focuses on urban design as part of town planning and equips students with a comprehensive understanding of urban design, planning and development issues. The programme provides an inter-disciplinary approach to urban design, helping students to develop the knowledge and skills required to engage with the complex issues facing our cities and to increase their employability in the expanding profession of urban design and in the related fields of planning and development. Through working at different scales of the city and engaging with theoretical debates, students will gain a critical understanding of the characteristics of good places and will be equipped to make a decisive contribution to shaping those places in the decades ahead. The programme is fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). The Royal Institution sof Chartered Surveyors (RICS) will consider the accreditation of this programme at the next Partnership Board. The MA UDP will provide students with specialist expertise in urban design, allowing them to study this discipline within the broader frameworks of town planning and property development. This will allow them to develop a broad range of skills which will be attractive for urban design, planning and property development employers; architectural practices dealing with master planning, government organisations and research institutions are other possible employers. Graduates have used urban design on the planning courses at LSBU to focus on the relationship between planning and design. A number of our graduates now hold key posts in urban design in private consultancies or public authorities. LSBU is committed to supporting you develop your employability and succeed in getting a job after you have graduated. Your qualification will certainly help, but in a competitive market you also need to work on your employability, and on your career search.

Students will be required to have a minimum of a lower second (2:2) Bachelor’s Degree or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.