Master's degree in continuing education in Urban Planning and Sustainability
Barcelona, Spain
Master degree
DURATION
8 months
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 7,700
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
Key Summary
About: The UPC School Master's in Urban Planning and Sustainability equips professionals to design sustainable urban projects that integrate territorial planning with environmental protection. It covers sustainable architecture, land-use regulation, Local Agenda 21 policies and tools addressing mobility, landscape, waste, urban structure and environmental quality across territorial systems. It helps you update skills or redirect careers in urban planning and sustainable development.
Career Outcomes: You'll work as a technical manager of urban planning, territory and environment departments, consultant in urban planning and land management, urban planning technician, project manager in planning, territory and environment, or urban planner in private practice.
Why this program?
Offering viable proposals for sustainable development without sacrificing urban planning is the goal of this Master's program in Urban Planning and Sustainability. It aims to equip professionals working on reconciling territorial planning with environmental considerations with the necessary tools. The way an urban project is designed, how it integrates with the surrounding area, and how it impacts the environmental quality of the environment are all key concepts in sustainable architecture. Land-use regulation plays a fundamental role in the path toward a more sustainable future, as established by numerous studies and public policy strategies at both the national and European levels.
Gone are the days when metropolises grew unchecked, haphazardly, and without regard for their limited capacity to absorb inhabitants and provide them with the resources necessary for daily life. Today, public administrations ensure the supply of these resources (water, electricity, gas, waste collection, etc.) and have designed projects to build sustainable cities. Among these instruments are the Local Agenda 21s. These are cross-cutting policies that consider mobility, landscape, waste, and urban structure.
In short, this master's program offers the most innovative tools to integrate environmental preservation into contemporary urban and territorial systems.
- Territorial and Urban Planning
- Urban Management, Governance and Policies
- Geographic information systems
- Sustainable Urban Planning
- Urban Climate and Climate Change
- Environmental Assessment of Planning
- Smart Cities: Urban Planning and Technologies
- Final Master Project
General
- To delve deeper into the different areas of territorial and urban planning as well as the management of the city in this 21st century, always from the perspective of making the city through sustainable development.
- To provide tools that ensure territorial planning is compatible with environmental preservation. In this way, we will create true planners , specialists in contemporary urban and territorial systems.
Specific
- Assess land regulation, building morphology and terrain morphology.
- Identify the instruments of environmental management of the territory and of evaluation, which allow measuring the economic and social value of goods without a manifest market, such as environmental or urban spaces.
- Develop thematic maps for visualization and analysis of urban, territorial and environmental structure using GIS technologies.
- Studying ways to assess the material consumption of urban systems and their interaction with the environment.
- Define urban and territorial ecology and outline its role in the development of the urban planning discipline.
- To understand environmental law, legislation, and international agreements on environmental matters.
- To discuss the importance of Local Agenda 21s and their parameters.
- Technical manager of urban planning, territory and environment departments in public administrations.
- Consultant in urban planning and land management.
- Urban planning technician specializing in urban planning.
- Project manager in the area of planning, territory and environment.
- Urban planner in private practice.
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- Urban planners and technical or higher architects.
- Engineers from various specialties.
- Economists, geographers, sociologists, or graduates in Environmental Sciences or Law.
- Professionals dedicated to urban and territorial planning.
- Public administration professionals in the areas of urban planning, territory, environment, etc.