City Planning MPlan

The programme equips students theoretically and practically, engaging them academically and in practice with planning and related fields of knowledge. Students will learn how to think critically, creatively and analytically across different spatial scales, from strategic to local - and across urban design, city planning, place-making, real estate and sustainability arenas - as they seek integrated solutions to defined planning problems.

Students undertake modules to the value of 300 credits.

MSc students must take seven compulsory modules (135 credits), one optional modules (45 credits), two elective modules (30 credits), all assessed by either coursework or exam or both, and submit a 15,000-word dissertation or major personal project (90 credits).

• Spatial Planning: Concepts and Contexts (15 credits)
• Pillars of Planning (30 credits)
• Urban Design: Place Making (15 credits)
• Sustainability and Environmental Justice (15 credits)
• Plan Making Studio (30 credits)
• Planning Practice (15 credits)
• Dissertation in City Planning (90 credits)
• Comparative Planning Systems and Cultures (15 credits)

• Any open MSc module from the Bartlett School of Planning or Centre for Applied Spatial Analysis (15 credits)
• Either Study Abroad in City Planning, orWork Placement in City Planning

All students undertake an independent research project compising a proposal of 2,000 words and culminating in a dissertation of 15,000 words.

Methods of delivery will vary (because of the flexible nature of the programme) but a student might encounter studio teaching, formal lectures, analytical modelling, small-group tutorials and discussion, formal presentations, and site visits. Student performance is assessed through individual and group work, essays, and project work.

Term two of year two is spent either as study abroad or in an industry placement.