287 Urban Planning and Smart Cities Degree Programs

Ready to shape the future of cities? Join Urban Sustainability Studies to study across Europe, pick from 20+ minors, and tackle the challenges modern cities face. With personal advice and hands-on experience, this unique programme sets you apart!

How can we plan cities that withstand climate change, social challenges, and rapid societal transitions? In the Master's Programme in Sustainable Urban Planning, you gain the tools to analyse, design, and develop the sustainable cities and living environments of the future. The programme combines theory and practice, with close links to research and society.

This JUNIA MSc label prepares students to develop urban areas by integrating energy use and efficiency, the use of new energies and technologies, and environmental planning into their thinking. The training also enables future professionals to become involved in the design of complex, multidisciplinary city projects by developing a holistic approach and blending technological and social parameters.

This Master of Science offers an advanced academic route in designing spatial arrangements and urban policies, to transform and manage the city, territory, and environment.

The master's degree course has taken a leading role in addressing the challenges of global change in urban, territorial and environmental contexts through a multidisciplinary, integrated and interactive approach, aimed at building sustainable and resilient design strategies that combine technique and art in the creation of living places in the global north and south.

You'll study topics that explore the cultural, historical and technological context of architectural design, and help you understand the implications of your design decisions. Our city will provide the ultimate case study for you, with an architectural legacy that few UK cities can rival.

In practice, there is a common tension between those developing and interpreting planning policy on the one hand, and the designers of cities on the other. This programme brings these groups together to engage in project-based learning. You will develop planning research, urban analysis and design skills before deciding whether to complete an urban design thesis or dissertation. Both of these options can be completed as work-based studies with opportunities for summer placements.

The Programme, shared by the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Architecture, both from the University of Porto, benefits from the sharing experience in previous years between the two institutions and aims to provide students a theoretical and practical experience for a deeper professional practice, beyond international borders, providing a variety of topics in the areas of planning, management, and urban policy in medium and large agglomerations.

The programme is aimed at teaching doctoral students innovative and novel techniques, methodologies and implementations of research in architecture and urban studies. The courses of the programme are obligatory or facultative, and highlight challenges and perspectives of the contemporary built environment.

The Master’s Programme in Urban Studies and Planning (MSc Architecture) is a two‑year, 120 ECTS, interdisciplinary programme offered jointly by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. It combines theory, history and methods with practice-focused studios to prepare graduates to address complex urban development challenges. The architecture specialisation awards a Master of Science (Architecture) degree and is aligned with the EU Directive 2005/36/EC for recognition of professional architect qualifications.

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 MSc in Environmental and Infrastructure Planning is the best Planning master in the Netherlands, according to the yearly Elsevier magazine survey. During the program, you are going to compare international theory and practice, study urban areas and issues of infrastructure, environment, and water, while involving thinking (policy strategies) and doing (practical work on projects and plans). Our program is linked to international (e.g., AESOP) and national (e.g., Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment) institutes and Groningen offers a wide range of English-language course options and facilities.

A two-year, full‑time multidisciplinary Master's programme jointly offered by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki that combines urban studies, planning and real estate economics. Students learn to analyse real‑estate markets, value formation and urban development, and to devise sustainable, practical solutions to urban challenges through interdisciplinary team work and project‑based studio courses.

The Master of Cities prepares you to be at the forefront of shaping and transforming cities. You will gain first-hand perspectives of urban projects and policies from our expert faculty. You will get the chance to delve into cross-cultural dialogues with other urban professionals.

Increasing concern about the environmental and health emergencies have triggered a wide debate on the need to integrate public health and urban design and planning to mitigate climate change, support sustainable living and improve people's well-being.