12 monthsProgramme duration
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Urban Planning
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Jointly delivered by Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) and the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society at Heriot-Watt University, this programme builds on the historic expertise and knowledge developed in both.
You will study the wide and diverse range of social, economic and political processes that influence the development of the contemporary urban environment. The programme also enables you to acquire the tools and skills to propose urban projects of diverse scales and specificities.
Students on the programme come from a range of multidisciplinary backgrounds and work collaboratively to understand how urban strategies and urban design approaches respond to contemporary urban transformations. Although the instruments for analysis offered by this programme are framed from a western perspective, it acknowledges that urban transformations in the urban North and the urban South are increasingly interlinked, and there is opportunity to explore perspectives and experiences from the urban South.
The city of Edinburgh offers a unique laboratory for the exploration of current urban design issues. Its renaissance to ‘Geddesian’ planning history and more contemporary international planning pedagogy and consultancy links to urban institutions and bodies, particularly in the Global South, provides a good platform from which to support student-led, location-based dissertations.
The programme seeks to address the gap between architecturally driven urban design and higher-level, spatial planning driven urban strategies and design. It brings together a range of approaches relevant to urban design that are currently being developed within and across professional and disciplinary practices, from engineering to human geography.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Urban Planning
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Jointly delivered by Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) and the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society at Heriot-Watt University, this programme builds on the historic expertise and knowledge developed in both.
You will study the wide and diverse range of social, economic and political processes that influence the development of the contemporary urban environment. The programme also enables you to acquire the tools and skills to propose urban projects of diverse scales and specificities.
Students on the programme come from a range of multidisciplinary backgrounds and work collaboratively to understand how urban strategies and urban design approaches respond to contemporary urban transformations. Although the instruments for analysis offered by this programme are framed from a western perspective, it acknowledges that urban transformations in the urban North and the urban South are increasingly interlinked, and there is opportunity to explore perspectives and experiences from the urban South.
The city of Edinburgh offers a unique laboratory for the exploration of current urban design issues. Its renaissance to ‘Geddesian’ planning history and more contemporary international planning pedagogy and consultancy links to urban institutions and bodies, particularly in the Global South, provides a good platform from which to support student-led, location-based dissertations.
The programme seeks to address the gap between architecturally driven urban design and higher-level, spatial planning driven urban strategies and design. It brings together a range of approaches relevant to urban design that are currently being developed within and across professional and disciplinary practices, from engineering to human geography.
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