Master of Urban & Area Development

Important elements in city development are foundation, cooperation and quality. A successful area development has a foundation with contributing parties and an efficient and effective collaboration. The transformation is valuable for users, the area, city or town.

City renewal demands an understanding of subject content disciplines, level of scale, procedures and common interest. One needs skills to unite several parties towards a good result. These elements are all integrated into the master programme.

The MUAD combines a practical view with and academic vision and broad knowledge.

There is great social necessity to substantially devote oneself to the meticulous transformation of existing urban territory. Corruption of districts, vacant office spaces, untamed growth of new business terrain, reducing nature and free space in and around cities have become national issues. In the last century the transformation of existing urban territory has been dominated by a physical and spatial Point of view, a project related treatment and a search for the role of public and private parties.There is a great demand for professionals in public and private parties, that have understanding for the link between policy and execution and that can handle the complex processes during the transformation of existing urban territory.