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Urban Design – (M.Sc.)
University of Strathclyde
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| Location: | Glasgow / United Kingdom | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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UDSU has been running the MSc Course in Urban Design since 2006. The Course has recently gained accreditation from the Royal Town Planning Institute as a Specialist Course.
High quality urban design is a basic requirement for the successful development of our built environment and of our society in general. Our course aims to teach urban design in a multidisciplinary manner that reflects its inherent nature and to students from a variety of backgrounds related to the built and natural environment.
We aim to provide students with the conceptual frameworks and practical tools to understand the complexities of cities, by examining in detail the various factors that generate urban form. Our course focuses on physical planning and the design of urban spaces and their enclosure. Moreover, it aims at understanding how to create a democratically organised, socially inclusive, economically prospering, environmentally sustainable, architecturally beautiful and culturally vibrant city.
The main topic addressed in the course is the urbanity of places within the context of globalization and our projects focus on the metropolis or city region. The main task of the course is to develop appropriate strategies for sustainable urban development, encompassing social, political, economic, environmental, architectural, aesthetic and psychological aspects. We pursue this task in studio work, special projects, lectures and seminars.
Our course links its approaches and contents to the research work carried out in the Urban Design Studies Unit, making student experience exciting, innovative and experimental. Our students come from a variety of backgrounds – we have architects, planners, geographers, landscape architects and more; the tasks they work on benefit enormously from the expertise that comes from all these disciplines and their interaction. Collaborative work and problem solving are a central part of the learning experience; all students have something unique to contribute and learn from staff as well as from peers.
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CURRICULUM
Students who take all classes and studio (120 credits total) are awarded a Post Graduate Diploma. Students who also undertake the research-based dissertation are awarded a Masters degree (180 credits total).
One THIRD of the course is designed based:
Starting from a detailed structural analysis of the city, its urban fabric, its socio and economic dynamics and its connections and centralities, we go on to develop long term strategies for its social and environmental sustainable development. We design the detailed ordinary structure of places which will be capable of changing over time, maintaining their ordinary character but allowing extraordinary buildings and functions to be embedded where necessary.
One THIRD of the course is devoted toteaching:
the history, theory, principles and practice of urban design, landscape architecture, sustainability and transport planning. Classes are offered as intensive workshops or take place weekly over one or two semesters. We also offer an urban design representation class for students who do not have a design background.
One THIRD of the course is research based.
Over the summer students are requested to undertake a substantial piece of research worth 60 credits. In this final phase they will connect the projects and themes of our urban design research.
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Requirements
Entry Requirements
An Honours degree in a discipline related to the built environment and the city (e.g. architecture, planning, engineering, landscape architecture, sociology, history, etc.). As the course aims to realise a multidisciplinary learning environment, candidates with
alternative professional experience may also be considered.
English Language Requirements
In addition to academic qualifications, you must also be able to show that you have a sufficient grasp of English. If English is not your first language you will need to provide evidence of your proficiency before you can begin the course, and you are strongly advised to take the IELTS or the TOEFL test examination. The University's general entry requirements are IELTS 6.5, TOEFL 600 (including the Test of Written English), TOEFL 250 (computer based test) and TOEFL 100 (internet based test).
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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