Sustainable Cities – (M.Sc.)

The MSc Sustainable Cities programme provides advanced level understanding of contemporary debates about sustainable cities, with a specific focus on the human and physical processes shaping urban ecologies and environments. It aims to develop a critical understanding of the interrelationships between urbanization and human lifestyles, politics, economy, ecology and environment; develop a critical understanding of human impacts on physical processes in cities, and the implications for habitation and liveability; develop an ability to evaluate critically advanced scholarship in the field of urban policy, with reference to sustainable environmental management; promote initiative and the exercise of independent critical judgment in identifying, analysing and solving problems at an advanced level; develop relevant transferable skills embedded in the learning and assessment schemes in the programme; develop practical skills in data handling, interpretation, and use, and develop skills in (inter) relating physical dynamics to social, political and management processes; enable those with first degrees in a range of disciplines – geography, sociology, environmental science, engineering, etc., to focus on the challenges of managing cities in an integrated and sustainable manner; enable those taking the programme to deploy scientific and social and economic theory within a sustainability framework which takes into account the need to address the needs of society, the economy and the protection of environmental services.