Street Design and Management: University of Westminster

Introduction

This course will appeal to professionals drawn from a variety of backgrounds such as highway engineering, landscape architecture, town planning, transport planning, public management and other cognate disciplines.

Urban streets represent a rich and very complex phenomenon in modern city life. They represent major movement arteries within the city, and sustain a wide variety of economic and social functions both in the public realm and within adjoining frontages. Central government, local authorities and bodies such as the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment have recognised the importance of well-managed and well-designed streets and are calling for improvements in practice throughout the public and private sectors.

This Certificate has been designed in collaboration with practitioners, and will provide an opportunity for professionals working in this area to deepen their knowledge, skills and capabilities to deliver improvements in practice.

Course Content

Core module:

• Street Design Project

Option modules:

• About Streets
• Street Design in Practice

You may choose to take an alternative option module from an approved list prepared by the department each year in place of an option.

Teaching and Assessment

The course is taught in central London at our Marylebone Campus. It comprises three modules delivered sequentially over eighteen months. Each module requires attendance for one afternoon per week over 10 weeks. A wide variety of teaching and assessment methods are used, and contributions from visiting speakers and external practitioners are fully integrated into the modular format.

Entry Requirements

You will normally be a graduate with an Honours degree (Second Class or better) and at least two years’ professional experience. In exceptional circumstances, professionals with substantial work experience in the subject area of the course at a senior level, but who do not have a first degree, will be considered for admission. In these circumstances you may be required to attend an interview.