Master of Arts - Urban Design
- 1 year
- Duration
- 17,950 GBP
- Price
- Sept 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Oxford / United Kingdom
- Location
- Oxford Brookes University
- School
Program description
To help you hone your urban design skills, our MA in Urban Design combines theory and design practice.
Urban Design is relevant to every location dealing with current global concerns. It combines the processes by which geography produces form and the socioeconomic forces that mold the urban environment. It ties together philosophy, practice, and urban life.
You'll be with foreign students from planning, architecture, and landscape architecture. Professional practitioners and research teachers will help you in design studios. You can construct liveable environments for tomorrow using your urban design skills. You'll also engage with contemporary and future urban issues such as:
- intensification and population growth
- climate change
- cultural design context
- biodiversity and landscape urbanism
- affordable housing
- urban public realm in the digital age
Program structure
Year 1
- Contemporary approaches to Urban Design (30 credits)
- Urban Design Masterplan to Public Realm (30 credits)
- International Urban Design Theories for Design and Planning (30 credits)
- Urban Design in Challenging Contexts (30 credits)
- Research methods in Design (10 credits)
Final Project
-
Design Dissertation or Major Project (50 credits)
Price
Tuition Fee - 17,950 GBP
Requirements for applicants
Specific Entry Requirements
- The course is open to applicants who hold a 2.1 undergraduate honours degree (or international equivalent) in a related design & planning discipline.
- We will actively consider applications from candidates with lower degrees or an alternative subject, who can provide a suitable portfolio and/or evidence relevant work experience.
English Language Requirements
- If your first language is not English you will require a minimum IELTS score of 6.0 overall with 6.0 in all components.
About the university
The history of Oxford Brookes University spans more than 150 years. We began as a modest School of Art in rented classrooms and have expanded into one of the UK's top modern universities with a reputation for distinction in teaching and research on the local, national, and worldwide levels.
Our primary goal is to provide a top-notch educational experience that helps each of our graduates to be competent, self-assured, and prosperous. The standard of instruction students receive is an integral component of this.
Oxford Brookes works with a wide range of partners both domestically and internationally. Our connections are essential to improving our instruction, research, and information sharing. Additionally, they provide our students a wealth of placement, internship, and employment options.
In cooperation with our Associate College Partners as well as directly, we offer a variety of higher education and degree apprenticeships (ACPs).
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