Urban Planning, Design and Management UCL

Overview

The built environment around us shapes how we live our daily lives. Future oriented city planning is required to ensure cities meet the changing needs of their communities, whilst addressing major challenges such as climate change, regeneration and public health.

Join Urban Planning, Design and Management at UCL

Key facts

Urban Planning, Design and Management BSc is designed to train a new generation of urban practitioners with the skills and creativity to understand, manage and deliver urban change. You will learn from leading academic experts from The Bartlett School of Planning how urban planning and design transforms our towns and cities. You will gain an understanding of how economic, social and environmental dimensions impact our urban environments, building specialist knowledge from modules about spatial planning, urban design, transport, climate change, rural planning, urban regeneration, and real estate development.

During your degree you will:

Learn theories, methodologies, skills, and techniques from social sciences, urban planning and urban design disciplines, used widely across the built environment professions.

Learn to use industry-relevant software applications in urban design, graphic design, communication, GIS.

Gain hands-on experience understanding, managing and delivering urban change through fieldwork, site visits and project work, engaging in live examples of urban planning, design and regeneration challenges.

Have the option to study abroad. Expand your practice to another city by taking advantage of our long-established links with many universities in Europe as well as a growing list in the USA, Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

Have the opportunity to undertake a 2-week voluntary work experience, drawing from a pool of our industry and professional partners.

Gain a degree accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and the Royal Town Planning Institute.