This module provides students with a holistic approach to all the aspects of sustainability: social, cultural, economic and environmental. Students will...

Sustainable Futures by Design (BPLN0034)

This module provides students with a holistic approach to all the aspects of sustainability: social, cultural, economic and environmental. Students will reflect on possible sustainable future cities by addressing issues that are currently at the forefront of the debate on urban design and city planning: how to make the city more inclusive, collaborative, consume less resources, interact with nature, address the challenges of climate change and, at the same time, strengthen its design and maintain its heritage. The module combines design and theoretical reflection through a series of lectures, workshops and design proposals.

Urban Design Research Project is a final module which provides students with the opportunity to conduct a major individual research project that explores the...

Urban Design Research Project (BPLN0023)

Urban Design Research Project is a final module which provides students with the opportunity to conduct a major individual research project that explores the nature of urban design as an inter-disciplinary research subject, and as a key dimension of understanding and unlocking complex urban problems. The work takes the form of a 15,000 word dissertation thesis or a 10,000 research report if it is major design research project-based.

This is the culmination of the Master’s degree programme and an opportunity for in-depth, independent academic study. The first part of the module...

Dissertation in City Planning (BPLN0008)

This is the culmination of the Master’s degree programme and an opportunity for in-depth, independent academic study. The first part of the module consists in term three of year one of a series of research method workshops on issues such as methodological selection, ethics and risk, academic writing, common quantitative analysis techniques in the social sciences, surveys, interviews, focus groups, archival research, design based research, GIS based analysis techniques, and academic writing. At the end of this period students will produce a full dissertation proposal. The second, and main, part of the module is then a year long period throughout the summer between year one and year two and the whole of year two of independent, student led research and writing. Students will be allocated a dissertation supervisor at UCL to assist and guide them throughout the process.