CA · Masters
Urban Planning MSc
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Program overview
Urban planning is the process by which a community shapes its environment to meet its needs and realize its aspirations Urban planning is also the profession of those who facilitate this process While the practice of planning is as old as the cities themselves the Urban Planning profession is only about a century old In the late 19th and early 20th centuries architects landscape architects engineers government reformers lawyers public health specialists and others joined forces to tackle the serious social and environmental problems of the industrial city They created new techniques and institutions to improve living conditions and decision-making processes with an eye to improving cities in terms of health safety efficiency equity beauty identity etc Today people who enter the profession come from diverse backgrounds as well including the design professions engineering and applied sciences environmental and social studies and other fields Their challenge is to reinvent tools and procedures to meet new challenges in making cities socially economically and environmentally sustainable A key feature of planning education is learning to view issues in a multidisciplinary way to manage processes of collaboration and of conflict and to generate equitable and efficient solutions to complex problems of urban development
Duration: 12
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