285 Urban Planning and Smart Cities Degree Programs

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.

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.

The Master's track History of Architecture and Urbanism explores the evolution of cities, villages, and landscape design in Europe within the continuously changing global environment.

Better understand how cities are confronting challenges to securing an inclusive, just and sustainable set of futures.

PhD in Urban Future Studies. The Doctorate course in "Urban Future Studies" intends to offer young graduates the opportunity to follow a third-level training course with a qualification of excellence and international scope through the acquisition of in-depth methodological, technological, and scientific skills that allow an evaluation, both qualitative and quantitative, of the use of predominantly vegetal solutions in urban and peri-urban systems.

A two-year, full-time Master of Science programme in urban design focused on creating sustainable, resilient and inclusive urban environments. It combines design methods, systems thinking and stakeholder collaboration to address climate adaptation, housing pressures, segregation, ageing infrastructure and other urban challenges.

The environment we live in nowadays is very complex and the architect is forced to work on the existing heritage paying particular attention to its sustainability and considering the environment together with the built heritage as a resource to protect. The new MSc program "Architectural Design and History" is offering a study plan based on this very attitude.

The MSc in Urban Systems Engineering is a full‑time, 4‑semester (120 ECTS) master's programme delivered in Budapest by the Institute of Landscape Architecture. It trains professionals to plan, design and manage urban systems, infrastructure and land‑use at settlement and regional levels.

The Master of Planning (MPlan) degree requires two years of full-time, or the equivalent in part-time, study and entails postgraduate coursework in planning and planning-related subjects, as well as a significant piece of supervised research. There are two streams: one involving a thesis, and the other a research project. The normal admission requirement for both streams is a completed Bachelor's degree in any subject(s) relevant to planning.

The course in Master in Urban Water Cycle aims to respond to the current societal challenge of sustainable water management in the urban cycle, always bearing in mind the issues associated with global change (climate and anthropogenic) and the current drought scenario.

The Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) degree is awarded after the successful completion of 48 semester hours. The MCRP degree establishes credentials for certified planning practice and is fully accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB).

On the Urban Design MA from Kingston University, you will have opportunities to work on live projects, such as European and local consultancy briefs, within the Landscape Interface Studio. You will also benefit from international workshops, external lectures and optional visits to London shows, museums and institutions.

The Master's program in Architecture-Urban Regeneration aims to provide a professional solution to the need for a new profile of fully-fledged architect, in cultural and professional terms and not merely formal, within the European context; a fast-shaping context in which the issues of urban regeneration play a role of particular relevance, also highlighted by issues identified in the European and international urban agenda, as well as, more recently, in the national urban agenda being defined.

Housing and Urbanism (HU) focuses on the key contemporary issues that drive urban transformation, and examines the role of architecture in promoting and supporting critical change. The programme offers MA (12 months) and MArch (16 months) options, and addresses the lived city and the central role of residential life in the urban process.

Over the next 30 years, more than $100 trillion will be invested worldwide in infrastructure, as the impacts of climate change accelerate and the need for resilient, adaptable systems grows. This postgraduate programme will prepare you to take a leading role in this transformation, whether influencing policy, directing investment, or delivering innovative solutions.