Since then, Harvard has played a leading role in the education ofurbanplanners andurbandesigners. The Department ofUrbanPlanning andDesignis home to both professions, offering a professionaldegreeinurbanplanning and a post-professionaldegreeinurbandesign. It is also home to the new Master in Real Estatedegree.
The master's inDesignandUrbanEcologies combines urbanism with ecology,design, policy, activism, and community participation, allowing students to gain expertise needed to address globalurbanchallenges and opportunities.
Planning Schools and Accreditation Master'sDegreesA master's-level graduatedegreeis considered the standard for planning practitioners. Planning graduate students may have an undergraduatedegreein planning, but others may have studied geography,urbanstudies, architecture, or sociology. PAB accredits master'sdegreeprograms in planning.
The Master of Science in Architecture with a concentration inurbandesign[MS ARCHUrbanDesign] is a post-professionaldegreefocusing on contemporary urbanity. Thedegreeprovides an integrative way of looking at all of the complexity of the contemporary city, exploring the potentials and ...
UrbanDesign: PreparingUrbanThinkers and Practitioners:Urbandesignis widely recognised across the global academic community as a criticaldesignand research discipline that has significant impact on community health, individual wellbeing, community resilience, and social, economic and environmental sustainability.
Our Master ofUrbanDesign(M.U.D.) empowers the next generation ofurbanleaders to confront today's most urgenturbanchallenges through research and speculativedesign. The program brings together students withdegreesin architecture, landscape architecture,urbantechnology, andurban& regional planning in an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. Leveraging its location in ...
