Urban and Regional Planning: University of Westminster

Introduction

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

The course is a combined planning programme, providing both the spatial (two-thirds) and specialist (one-third) elements of planning education.

Core Modules:

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

Option Modules:

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

Entry Requirements

• You will need a good first degree from UK or Ireland, a comparable qualification from overseas or membership of an appropriate professional body.
• 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.