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Sustainable Urban Design – (M.Sc.)
Lund University
Faculty of Engineering
| Application Deadline: | January 16 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | Free - ≈ € 22,000 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Lund / Sweden / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 120 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Lund University
Making the world´s growing cities healthy, attractive and sustainable is an exceptional challenge. Lund University, located in the dynamic Öresund region, is a global leader in balancing urban economic growth and environmental development and offers superb resources for studying the diverse aspects of sustainability and design. The Master´s programme in Sustainable Urban Design at the School of Architecture has a well-established reputation for developing humanistic modern design that promotes liveability, community building and social sustainability. Drawing on best practices and advanced research into urban form, urban quality and sustainability, the Master´s programme produces highly skilled professionals, capable of meeting the challenge of sustainable urban design as productive, successful individuals who are creative, insightful and intellectually skilled in their approach to the profession and their practice.
The objectives of the Master's programme in Sustainable Urban Design are to:
* offer a broad education, covering the most important aspects of sustainability related to urban design
* provide students with the skills to manifest specific social, economic and environmental intentions in physical form through urban design
* prepare students for professional practice and continued life-long intellectual development
* take advantage of the possibilities created by a multi-national student group
Career prospects
After graduating from the programme you will have the necessary skills to practise as an urban designer with particular expertise in sustainable urban design.
Contents
The two year Masters programme is divided into four semesters, each with a specifically focused design question.
In the first semester the focus is Urban Recycling, and serves as an introduction to the concepts of urban structure and possibilities for reuse of urban forms.
In the second semester the focus is Urban Landscape. In this semester students are challenged with regional urban planning, and must consider the broad landscape ecology of the site. They then focus on methods for incorporating the landscape into urban design.
The third semester deals with Urban Dynamics. The challenge is to gain an understanding of global processes and the results for urbanization.
The fourth semester is comprised of the thesis project. Students create their own program for investigation, and may carry out the study in a country of their choosing.
YEAR 1
First semester
Sustainable Urban Recycling (18hec)
Sustainable Urban Recycling deals with the question of how neglected, abandoned, decaying or dysfunctional urban structures can be transformed into sustainable and attractive urban areas.
Sustainable Urban Recycling - Theory and Methods (6hec)
Sustainable Urban Recycling - Theory and Methods provides a theoretical and method oriented complement to the course ASBN01 Sustainable Urban Recycling. It deals primarily with the theoretical premises for sustainable development.
Urban Quality and Urban Form (6hec)
The advanced course in Urban Quality and Urban Form deals with urban quality in theory and practice. What is a good built environment? How can we create pleasing and attractive environments in which people want to live? What are the chances of achieving long-term sustainable qualities?
Second semester
Sustainable Urban Landscape (18hec)
The advanced course Sustainable Urban Landscape deals with urban design in a wider perspective. Students start out with a regional strategy which is developed into a landscape plan from which a small urban settlement is designed to illustrate the relationship between landscape and built environment.
Sustainable Urban Landscape - Theory and Method (6hec)
The course sets out to develop the students' knowledge of the theoretical premises for sustainable design in rural and urban contexts as well as in transition zones.
Landscape Architecture and Gardens (6hec)
The aim of this course is to provide knowledge on contemporary landscape architecture and landscape gardens. The course focuses on analyzing and discussion surrounding questions of architectural space and quality.
YEAR 2
Third semester
Sustainable Urban Dynamics (18hec)
Sustainable Urban Dynamics is about analyzing a selected urban area in a global perspective, that is subjected to the pressure of change and then proposing a strategy for renewal in the form of an advanced design proposal.
Urban Dynamics -Theories and Tendencies (6hec)
This course is a theoretical and method oriented extension to ASBN30 Sustainable Urban Dynamics.
Urban Process (6hec)
Urban Process is about analyzing the actors, factors and events that influence current urban development projects and the need for anchoring urban design processes in social contexts.
Fourth semester
Individual Masters Project (30hec)
The Individual Masters Project is to be viewed as a bridge into professional practise. Individual students or small teams propose a thesis statement along with a specific hypothetical sustainable urban design project intended to demonstrate the thesis. After approval by the faculty and completion of the project, the work is evaluated according to the goals of the stated thesis.
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Requirements
To be eligible for the programme of study in the Master of Science in Sustainable Urban Design, applicants are required to have a Swedish engineering degree of at least 180 higher education credits, or a Bachelor´s degree in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning or an equivalent BSc from a foreign university corresponding to at least three years of study in science or engineering.
The educational programme that entitle admission to the programme should include courses in Architecture and Planning and Design. Aesthetic awareness and visual communication skills demonstrated through a portfolio.
In order to participate in any of the Master's programmes a high level of English is required. Students form Nordic countries must have basic university eligibility. If your first language is English you prove your knowledge with a higher secondary education certificate which includes English.
English language proficiency can also be demonstrated by any one of the following methods:
* IELTS score of 6.5 or more (with none of the sections scoring less than 5.5)
* TOEFL score of 575 or more (Internet based test 90)
* A Bachelor degree from a university where English is the only language of instruction, according to the latest edition of International Handbook of Universities
* Previously completed university degree, of at least three years, taught in English from certain countries
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 575 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 90 |
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