285 Urban Planning and Smart Cities Degree Programs

Start the journey to your future as an architect with your own unique vision - welcome to our Bachelor Program in Architecture and Urban Design. During the four-year bachelor's programme, you'll explore your own creative approach and focus on excelling in your fields of interest. Our program provides an in-depth guidance of experienced, award-winning tutors, you'll deepen your knowledge in the theoretical, technical, and professional aspects of architecture and urban design. Our program is founded on an intensive studio experience and innovative digital spaces for collaboration and an exchange of ideas. You will hone your practical skills, and sharpen your critical thinking. All this in the heart of Europe, in one of the best student cities where you can meet many peers from other BUT faculties and universities. Moreover, Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology has been selected among the best 230 universities in the field worldwide by QS Ranking.

Cities today face climate, housing, health, and equity challenges — including sustainability, resilience, and post-crisis reconstruction — that cannot be solved by traditional design education alone. The Online Master of Design Studies in Urban Design at Boston Architectural College prepares working professionals from diverse backgrounds to apply design thinking at the scale of urban systems, communities, and places.

This interdisciplinary programme is designed to equip students with a systematic understanding of the theories and practices of urban governance, planning, and management. It addresses the challenges of rapid urbanization, focusing on how cities are governed, planned, and managed to be inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.

The Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture prepares future professionals whose designs will enhance the quality of urban life by means of natural and built elements.

Master's Programme in Urban Mobility (SUMT) is a multidisciplinary, double-degree MSc (Technology) that trains students in urban planning, transport and sustainability. The programme is delivered in cooperation with EIT Urban Mobility and several European partner universities and is 2 years (120 ECTS) full‑time, combining an integrated technical major with an Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) minor and a 30‑ECTS master’s thesis.

For the Urban Governance and Design specialisation. The Red Bird MPhil Program explores a student-centered interdisciplinary education paradigm through guided learning, creating an optimal growth environment for future strategic engineers and scientists to discover themselves, unleash their potential, and continuously improve their abilities.

The study aims to equip students with knowledge from the theoretical, technical, and related disciplines in the field of architecture and urban design, as well as an adequate set of professional competencies and skills. The range and level of skills and knowledge are defined so that the graduate will be able to work as an independently certified architect.

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.

Do you prefer to work outdoors? Don’t like being confined to an office? If so, Gateway’s Arboriculture/Urban Forestry Technician Degree program is the one for you. Almost all the work is conducted outside, working with a variety of tools and machinery. And, if you choose to climb trees, you can have your very own natural “office” with a view every day. Gateway’s Arboriculture/Urban Forestry Technician associate degree provides the hands-on skills and natural resource education for graduates to enter this exciting career field of arborists, urban foresters and related occupations. It offers family-sustaining wages and year-round work with private, corporate or government landowners.

The Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) and Master of Urban Design (M.U.D.) dual degree at UNC Charlotte integrates professional architectural training with urban-scale design expertise to shape meaningful public spaces at the neighborhood and city levels.

Our MSc Building and Infrastructure Information Modelling (BIM) for Smart Engineering aims to provide you with the necessary training, skills and hands-on experience to become successful in the dynamic and highly competitive fields of BIM and smart engineering and to give you a distinct edge when applying for a career in industry or for a PhD studentship.

The Master of Urban Studies is a two-year, English-language program focused on rethinking contemporary urbanism. The program combines history, theory and practice, drawing on critical approaches in planning, geography and architecture. It is aimed at students who want to contribute towards a more equitable future. Key themes include infrastructure, urban nature and housing.

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.

How do global transformations resulting from extreme weather events, increased diversity in cities and infrastructural problems affect everyday places? What are the opportunities, assets, conflicts, contestations, and dilemmas that arise during these processes? And how do they reshape the local, expanding urban spaces where people live, study and work? During the research Master’s programme Global Urban Transformations your aim is to find the answers and contribute to a more sustainable world.

Public space plays a strategic role in redefining new patterns of behavior at the urban scale. In this sense, the postgraduate program in Sustainable Urban Space trains students to identify the processes of transformation and the parameters that influence the development of new urban planning strategies.