MA Urban Regeneration: University of Westminster

Introduction

MA Urban Regeneration has RTPI accreditation as a specialist planning course.

The MA programme is designed to give you the academic and professional knowledge, understanding and skills to enable you to practice professionally as a town and country planner. It aims to meet the growing needs of employers for staff able to investigate how change in the natural and built environments is shaped by economics, society and governance and to undertake critical thinking about space and place as the basis for action and intervention. It builds on the University's experience of delivering postgraduate courses in Town Planning for approximately 60 years.

Course Aims

The aim is to equip students with the knowledge, understanding, skills and values necessary to enter a career involving the management of the spatial dimension of social, economic, technological, environmental and political changes. The course examines planning in both urban and rural areas, but the emphasis is on urban planning.

Course Content

Core modules:

• Introduction to Spatial Planning
• Society, Economics, Diversity and Planning
• Spatial Strategies and Policy Integration
• Making and Managing Places (Double)
• Environmental Strategies and Policy Processes
• Research Methods and Dissertation (Double)

Option modules include:

• Community Development and Involvement
• Sustainable Development and Regeneration
• Urban Regeneration
• Public Space and the Public Realm

Entry Requirements

• An undergraduate degree from a UK or European university in any subject; membership of a professional institute involved in the built or natural environment.
• Those with substantial relevant professional experience but without a first degree may be offered a place at the discretion of the course leader.
• If English is not your first language, you must be able to show that you have an adequate standard of written English, with a minimum IELTS of 6.5 in all elements.