10 Urban Design Masters Degree Programs in Spain

With the online Master in Urbanism you will learn in a practical way to integrate urban design and sustainable mobility, as well as generate spaces for reflection and innovation in the integration of raw materials.

Healthy Cities and Sustainable Cities are two sides of the same coin: both place citizens’ well-being and sustainability at the heart of urban transformation. There is currently a lack of programs that address this need for urban planners and designers who are trained to achieve some of the sustainable development goals in a comprehensive manner through urban design.

The Master in Architecture and Urbanism Projects is aimed at professionals with an interest in participating by integrating development, administration and project management teams of Urban Architectural projects.

Urban mobility is redefining our cities, transforming public spaces and the vehicles we use. This master's program addresses the challenges of contemporary mobility, offering innovative training to tackle urban transformations through creative solutions that enhance the citizen experience and promote the sustainable and smart development of cities.

The master's degree in Urban Tourism provides an opportunity to train in a very dynamic professional area with excellent future prospects, in a context of rapidly changing cities, increasing consolidation of the smart city model, and the emergence of the urban environment as a tourism hub. The course focuses specifically on urban tourism, unlike other courses that cover tourism in general. It includes two new areas: entrepreneurship in urban destinations; and knowledge generation and smart tourism.

The Master's Degree in Landscape and Urban Planning focuses its training content on an integrated vision of urban planning and landscape. This option is fully supported by the recent evolution of both disciplines, characterized by a growing confluence and fusion between the two: in today's world, there is no urban planning without landscape, nor landscape without urban planning.

The practice of landscaping contemplates a wide variety of professional opportunities. The Master in Landscaping of the Urban Environment enables the necessary skills to achieve adequate access to the professional practice of landscaping committed to sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation. In this master's degree, you will learn to apply concepts such as bio-construction and xero-gardening and you will acquire the ability to strategically advise on urban plans, landscaping projects and policies related to the landscape.

The aim of the master’s degree in Urban Mobility is to improve urban mobility in our cities and around the world. This requires not just improvements in technical infrastructure (towards intelligent transport infrastructure, the Internet of Things, etc.) but also holistic planning, execution, and operation. Urban transformation obliges stakeholders to interact and understand others’ perspectives to make this improvement. This programme trains students from a variety of engineering backgrounds and equips them with the sector’s specific skills. It allows them to gain further, in-depth knowledge of the transition towards sustainable mobility, future services, and markets and the impact of ICTs and energy technologies. The programme also provides fundamental tools in entrepreneurship and innovation for dealing with the rapid transformation of a global society. There is currently no other master’s degree in Spain that provides such comprehensive education in this field.

Calling future urban thinkers who are curious about how we can revitalise post-industrial cities! This exciting and unique Master's programme wants to create an educational experience which recognizes and responds critically to issues of cities in different forms and stages of post-industrial transition and educates the next generation of specialists with the 21st-century skills and knowledge needed to address the challenges and opportunities of cities in transition and super diverse societies. It is the ideal program for professionals involved in the design, planning, management or evaluation of the city who want to join a vibrant knowledge and innovation community committed to rethinking more sustainable urban futures. RePIC fosters transformative modes of teaching, research, and learning - responding to post-industrial cities' specific challenges and characteristics.

The Norman Foster Institute, in a time of climate change, is addressed to those who wish, through practice or education, to improve the quality of life in cities worldwide. In that spirit, the Programme on Sustainable Cities will combine practical on-site experience with academic input from the foundation’s network of international experts.