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Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning (Leuven)

KU Leuven – Faculty of Engineering Technology

Master

In Leuven ()

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6,000 €

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Duration

    Flexible

The Master of Science in Urbanism and Strategic Planning (MaUSP) is a four-semester academic degree offered within the Faculty of Engineering Science by the Department of Architecture. The programme interacts with research conducted by the research groups active in the department.

The MaUSP programme is part of the European Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism (EMU), and students can apply to attend one or two semesters abroad at one of the partner universities - UPC Barcelona, TU Delft or IUAV Venezia - to obtain the additional European Postgraduate Master of Urbanism.


The joint EMU programme is a collaborative effort bringing together the best components of existing curricula, creating new courses and offering a top-ranking professional degree by combining the specificity and strengths of the participating universities. The consortium functions as a platform for promoting an exchange of knowledge, ideas, and research projects on current urban trends in Europe and the world.

About this course

The ideal prospective student has a firm foundational knowledge of architecture and planning, exceptional results from previous studies, and a special desire to address European-wide urban problems. Practical experience in design offices, consultancy firms, planning or policymaking councils is beneficial. Proven, extensive and highly regarded personal experience can compensate for deficiencies in academic qualification.




Courses are organised according to the following set up:

Core courses
Design studios
Optional courses
Final design thesis
Graduates are recognised in Flanders as urban planners, if they comply with certain rules pertaining to their choice of design studios and courses, thus being eligible for certain positions as public servants.
Design studios form the heart of the programme, a status reflected in their credit load. They are organised as two full days of work on Mondays and Tuesdays to provide an intensive and immersive working environment, as occurs in most professional practices. They also are courses where a balance between teamwork and individual contribution is developed, since students are subdivided in small but varied groups from inception.

Depending on the track students choose (urbanism or planning), certain optional courses become compulsory.

After successfully completing the programme, you will have acquired a thorough knowledge of urbanisation in different contexts. You will have learned to work on various scale levels, with an understanding of the interferences between scales. You will be able to conduct a critical analysis of spatial phenomena in relation to the social and economic forces driving them. Building upon such analysis, you can design strategic interventions that are politically and economically feasible, and that have a structural impact. You will have developed excellent communication skills, visually as well as textually, and you will be able to function in a research environment.
Graduates will be able to provide professional architectural and/or urban design experience to design offices, consultancy firms, or work as public servants. Urbanism is closely related to current and rapid social transformation and there is a continual need for professionals capable of elaborating new interpretations, strategies and designs in response to emerging trends. MaUSP graduates are highly valued in urban design offices, consultancy firms for urban development and management, real estate agencies that develop public-private partnerships and the public sector.

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Subjects

  • Design
  • Built Environment
  • Project
  • Planning
  • Strategic Planning
  • Architecture
  • Urbanism
  • Promoting
  • Strategic
  • Design Studios

Course programme

The Advanced Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning (MaUSP) programme achieves the learning outcomes described below through a 120 credits professional training programme taught and tutored by internationally respected specialists from both academic and professional spheres. The programme serves a small group of select international candidates with advanced design skills or an equivalent background related to urbanism and/or planning.

This general objective can be translated into the following learning outcomes:

1. Graduates have mastered the state-of-the-art in academic theory and day-to-day methods and have obtained the skills to practice as an urbanism and strategic planning professional.

2. Graduates have acquired the ability to conceive and design spatial interventions and strategies that have the capacity to positively affect complex developments such as contemporary urbanization and give expression to a critical vision on the spatial organisation of today's society. This implies that graduates have gained a deep understanding of the dynamic and multifunctional aspects of the built environment through critical analysis design approaches.

3. Graduates have mastered the research methods, planning tools and state-of-the-art design practices in urbanism and strategic planning.

4. Graduates are able to creatively combine the research and design driven natures of their disciplines.

5. Like their cohorts in the Master of Human Settlements (MaHS) programme, MaUSP graduates have experience in team-based interdisciplinary research and studio work in order to prepare them to constructively act and work in a multilevel and multisectoral environment, which often involves partaking in multidisciplinary teams.

6. By exposure to stimulating exchanges and interactive feedback between academic analysis and day-to-day practice, graduates have acquired the ability to operate as 'reflective practitioners', which means promoting approaches that include reflection (theory, history, critique) as well as action (in the form of design research and strategy development) but also self-reflection (self-criticism and reorientation, personal development through communication and co-learning).

7. Graduates are familiar with methods and have acquired skills for intervention which reflect context-responsive concepts of sustainable development at different scale levels.

In a professional capacity, graduates of the Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning programme will consequently be expected to have acquired the following:

Knowledge
  • Graduates are aware of various contexts of urbanization in Europe and the wider world. They have insight into how the built environment emerged, grew and transformed and understand how the disciplines of urbanism and spatial planning operate in the processes of urbanisation.
  • Graduates have insight in design methods based on a deep analysis of the ongoing forces and phenomena that determine today's urbanization.
  • Graduates understand how urbanism and spatial planning as professional fields relate to other selected professional disciplines (sociology, economy, geography, etc.).
  • Graduates understand, as MaHS graduates do within the field of human settlements, the relationship between policies at various levels (worldwide, international, national, local) and the professional approaches and initiatives of urbanism and strategic planning.

Skills
  • Graduates are able to scientifically formulate a (development) problem in the built environment and propose a method or approach for solving the problem and applying it to offer a solution. Furthermore, graduates are able to focus on the strategic project in an integral way. That is, they will be able to directly intervene in what is politically and economically feasible, yet exert an effect in time and scale that exceeds the hic et nunc.
  • Graduates are able to recognize the link between the participatory visioning of a strategic project, its design (in terms of concept, form and strategy) and its implementation (in terms of adequate, feasible and timely project management, development and assessment).
  • Graduates have insight in the design methods based on the deep analysis of ongoing forces and phenomena of urbanisation as mentioned above, and have mastered these methods. This includes searching for, selecting and assessing sources of information. This analytical capacity is complemented with the capacity to conceive, develop and express interventions on various scale levels.
  • Graduates are able to address the different scales relevant in urbanism and urban planning, with the intention of stressing the interrelations between them.
  • Graduates are capable of communicating acquired knowledge in a well-structured and clear manner, orally, textually and graphically.

Attitudes
  • Graduates have a result-oriented planning and design attitude that effectively brings the (legitimate) interests of the different stakeholders in a planning or design project closer together and furthers a spatial policy aimed at the implementation of a coherent vision.
  • Like to their cohorts in the MaHS programme, graduates have developed a critical and open attitude enabling them to appreciate the value and contextual relevance of information and evaluate proposals of interventions.
  • Like to their cohorts in the MaHS programme, graduates have developed attitudes enabling them to learn from others and cooperate with professionals and other actors in society at large and with stakeholders involved in strategic interventions in particular.

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Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning (Leuven)

£ 5,138.58 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

6,000 €

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