Urban Planning

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Suggested Master's

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The study of Urban Planning focuses on understanding how cities or towns grow. It uses both technical and political procedures that concentrate on the planning and development of the environment, infrastructure, transportation, communication, networking, and accessibility of the land. It creates plans for metropolitan areas, towns, and cities' governance and management. In order to define space into a well-planned and organised environment with historical and geographical components, it seeks to accomplish a distribution of social, economic, and environmental characteristics.

Students learn how to take charge of creating new building zones and giving abandoned ones new uses through classes that typically cover a variety of topics, including geography, sustainable development, architectural communication, computer graphics in planning, urban environment challenges, introduction to GIS (Geographic Information Systems), urban planning law, etc.

Urban planning requires excellent analytical, communication, managerial, and decision-making abilities. In addition, students spend a lot of time meeting with government representatives to discuss projects, obtaining information, doing fieldwork, and keeping up with construction rules and environmental regulations.

Study levels:

Courses in Urban Planning is offered by colleges and universities in India and abroad at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level via degrees, certificates and diplomas. These include:

Advanced Diploma in Urban Planning
Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies
Bachelor of Science In Sustainable Urban Environments
Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies
Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours)
Bachelor's Programme in Administrative Sciences, Sustainable Urban Development
Bachelor's Programme in Social Sciences, Sustainable Urban Development
Bachelor's Programme in Technology, Sustainable Urban Development
Master in Architecture and Urbanism
Master in Urban Planning
Master of Arts in Arts and Culture: History of Architecture and Town Planning
Master of Arts in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Master of Professional Studies in Sustainable Urban Planning
Master of Science in Architecture, Building and Planning
Master of Science in Landscape Architecture for Sustainable Urbanisation
Master of Science in Public and Urban Policy
Master of Science in Smart and Sustainable Cities
Master of Science in Urban Data Science and Analytics
Master of Science in Urban Planning
Master of Science in Urban Planning and Policy Design
Master of Science in Urban Planning for Transition
Master of Science in Urban Regeneration and Development
Master of Science in Urban Strategies
Master's Degree in Architecture – Urban Regeneration
Master's Degree in Regional and Local Development
MSc in Urban Housing and Land Justice: Equitable Access to Sustainable Land, Housing & Services
Postgraduate Diploma in International Planning
Postgraduate Diploma in Spatial Planning
Postgraduate Diploma in Town and Country Planning
Postgraduate Diploma in Transport and City Planning
Postgraduate Diploma in Urban Design
Postgraduate Diploma in Urban Planning and Development
Postgraduate Diploma in Urban Regeneration
Doctor of Philosophy in Urban and Regional Planning

Specialisations:

Specialisation areas in the study of Urban Planning include:

City Design and Development
Community Development
Decision Support & Geographical Information Systems
Economic Development
Environmental Development
Environmental Planning
Environmental Planning and Management
Environmental Policy and Planning
Environmental / Natural Resources Planning
Food Systems Planning
Geographic Information Systems
Hazard Mitigation / Disaster Recovery Planning
Historic Preservation
Housing
Housing and Development Planning
Housing, Community, and Economic Development
Information Technologies for Planning
International Development
International Development Group
Land Development Planning
Land Use and Code Enforcement
Multi-regional Planning System
Parks and Recreation
Planning Management/Finance
Preservation
Real Estate
Sustainable Land-Use Planning
Transportation Planning
Urban Design
Urban Information System

Employability:

Urban planning graduates play a key role in managing and developing the places we live in to make them safer, more sustainable and healthier.

Job titles include:

Civil Service Administrator
Community Development Worker
Economic Development Planner
Environmental Manager
Estate Manager / Development Manager
Fire Risk Assessor
Historic Buildings Inspector / Conservation Officer
Housing Manager / Officer
Landscape Architect
Local Government Officer
Planning And Development Surveyor
Regional Planner
Resources Planner
Surveyor
Sustainable Consultant
Town Planner
Transport Planner
Urban Designer
Urban Planner

Suggested bachelor's in Urban Planning

Urban Planning & Development

Cardiff University
Wales, United Kingdom
36 Months
Full-Time
18,20,000/ann.
BSc

Architectural Engineering

Loughborough University
England, United Kingdom
36 Months
Full-Time
24,65,000/ann.
BEng

Urban Planning

Loughborough University
England, United Kingdom
36 Months
Full-Time
21,00,000/ann.
BSc (Hons)

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Suggested Master's in Urban Planning

Town Planning

Anglia Ruskin University
England, United Kingdom
12 Months
Full-Time
14,50,000/ann.
MSc

Advanced Building Performance Evaluation

Cardiff University
Wales, United Kingdom
12 Months
Full-Time
21,95,000/ann.
MSc

Architectural Studies

Cardiff University
Wales, United Kingdom
12 Months
Full-Time
21,95,000/ann.
MArch

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List of universities

S.No.	Universities	Country
1	Anglia Ruskin University	England, United Kingdom
2	Cardiff University	Wales, United Kingdom
3	Kingston University	England, United Kingdom
4	Loughborough University	England, United Kingdom
5	Liverpool John Moores University	England, United Kingdom
6	London South Bank University	England, United Kingdom
7	Queens University Belfast	Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
8	Sheffield Hallam University	England, United Kingdom
9	The University of Manchester	England, United Kingdom
10	University of Brighton	England, United Kingdom
11	The University of Sheffield	England, United Kingdom
12	Ulster University	Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
13	University of Cambridge	England, United Kingdom
14	University of Central Lancashire	England, United Kingdom
15	University of Dundee	Scotland, United Kingdom
16	University of East London	England, United Kingdom
17	University of Edinburgh	Scotland, United Kingdom
18	University of Gloucestershire	England, United Kingdom
19	University of Greenwich	England, United Kingdom
20	University of Huddersfield	England, United Kingdom
21	University of Leicester	England, United Kingdom
22	University of Liverpool	England, United Kingdom
23	University of Newcastle	England, United Kingdom
24	University of Plymouth	England, United Kingdom
25	University of Reading	England, United Kingdom
26	University of Strathclyde	Scotland, United Kingdom
27	University of the West of England	England, United Kingdom
28	University of Warwick	England, United Kingdom
29	University of Westminster	England, United Kingdom
30	University of Wolverhampton	England, United Kingdom
31	Concordia University	Quebec, Canada
32	The University of British Columbia	British Columbia, Canada
33	University of Calgary	Alberta, Canada
34	Cape Breton University	Nova Scotia, Canada
35	Arizona State University	Arizona, United States
36	Binghamton University	New York, United States
37	Boise State University	Idaho, United States
38	Boston University	Massachusetts, United States
39	Brigham Young University	Utah, United States
40	Brown University	Rhode Island, United States
41	East Carolina University	North Carolina, United States
42	Florida State University	Florida, United States
43	Fordham University	New York, United States
44	Georgia State University	Georgia, United States
45	Illinois Institute of Technology	Illinois, United States
46	Iowa State University	Iowa, United States
47	Johns Hopkins University	Maryland, United States
48	Miami University	Florida, United States
49	Northern Arizona University	Arizona, United States
50	Oakland University	California, United States
51	Rice University	Texas, United States
52	San Francisco State University	California, United States
53	Brandeis University	Massachusetts, United States
54	Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis	Indiana, United States
55	University of Montana	Montana, United States
56	University of Southern California	California, United States
57	Clark University	Massachusetts, United States
58	Clemson University	South Carolina, United States
59	Georgetown University	District of Columbia, United States
60	Harvard University	Massachusetts, United States
61	Hofstra University	New York, United States
62	Collarts	Victoria, Australia
63	Queensland University of Technology	Queensland, Australia
64	Swinburne University of Technology	Victoria, Australia
65	The University of Notre Dame	Western Australia, Australia
66	University of Sydney	New South Wales, Australia
67	Monash University	Victoria, Australia
68	Billy Blue College of Design	New South Wales, Australia
69	Canberra Institute of Technology	Australian Capital Territory, Australia
70	Melbourne Polytechnic	Victoria, Australia
71	TAFE South Australia	South Australia, Australia
72	TAFE NSW	New South Wales, Australia
73	Box Hill Institute	Victoria, Australia
74	La Trobe University	Victoria, Australia
75	The University of Western	Western Australia, Australia
76	University of Melbourne	Victoria, Australia
77	Swansea University	Wales, United Kingdom
78	Western Sydney University	New South Wales, Australia
79	North Carolina State University	North Carolina, United States
80	Ohio University	Georgia, United States
81	Tufts University	Massachusetts, United States
82	National University of Ireland	Connacht, Ireland
83	Trinity College, Dublin	Leinster, Ireland
84	University of California Riverside	California, United States
85	Western Michigan University	Michigan, United States
86	Stanford University	California, United States
87	Wayne State University	Michigan, United States
88	University of Cincinnati	Ohio, United States
89	University of Wisconsin	Wisconsin, United States
90	University of Wisconsin-Green Bay	Wisconsin, United States
91	Oklahoma State University	Oklahoma, United States
92	The University of Tennessee Knoxville USA	Tennessee, United States
93	University of North Texas	Texas, United States
94	Stony Brook University	New York, United States
95	Rutgers University	New Jersey, United States
96	Purdue University	Indiana, United States
97	California State University Long Beach	California, United States
98	New York University	New York, United States
99	The Ohio State University	Ohio, United States
100	University of California Irvine	California, United States
101	South Dakota State University	South Dakota, United States
102	University of Nevada	Nevada, United States
103	California State University	California, United States
104	University of Washington	Washington, United States
105	Texas A&M University	Texas, United States
106	The University of Iowa	Iowa, United States
107	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	New York, United States
108	University at Albany	New York, United States
109	The University of New Mexico	New Mexico, United States
110	University of California San Diego	California, United States
111	University of Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania, United States
112	University of Colarado	Colorado, United States
113	University of Illinois Chicago	Illinois, United States
114	O.P. Jindal Global University	Haryana, India
115	CEPT University	Gujarat, India
116	Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University	Uttar Pradesh, India
117	GD Goenka University	Haryana, India
118	Presidency University (KARNATAKA)	Karnataka, India
119	Sastra Deemed University	Tamil Nadu, India
120	Symbiosis International (Deemed University)	Maharashtra, India
121	National University of Singapore	Central Singapore Community Development Council, Singapore
122	Singapore University of Technology and Design	Central Singapore Community Development Council, Singapore
123	Ngee Ann Polytechnic	Central Singapore Community Development Council, Singapore
124	Australian International Institute of Workplace Training	Tasmania, Australia
125	University of Southern Queensland	Queensland, Australia
126	Letterkenny Institute of Technology	Ulster, Ireland
127	University College Dublin	Leinster, Ireland
128	Brandenburg University of Technology	Brandenburg, Germany
129	University of Bremen	Bremen, Germany
130	University of Dortmund	North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
131	University of Giessen	Hesse, Germany
132	University of Hannover	Lower Saxony, Germany
133	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	England, United Kingdom
134	Rose Bruford College	England, United Kingdom
135	Kings College London UK	England, United Kingdom
136	University College London	England, United Kingdom
137	Cornell University	New York, United States
138	Georgia Institute of Technology	Georgia, United States
139	The University of Alabama in Huntsville	Alabama, United States
140	The University of Utah	Utah, United States
141	University of Missouri-Kansas City Volker Campus	Missouri, United States
142	University of Rhode Island	Rhode Island, United States
143	University of Toledo	Ohio, United States
144	University of Arizona	Arizona, United States
145	Auburn University at Montgomery	Alabama, United States
146	Bowling Green State University	Ohio, United States
147	George Washington University	Washington, United States
148	Lehigh University	Pennsylvania, United States
149	Louisiana State University	Louisiana, United States
150	Loyola University Chicago	Illinois, United States
151	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts, United States
152	Northern Illinois University	Illinois, United States
153	Old Dominion University	Virginia, United States
154	Portland State University	Oregon, United States
155	Southeast Missouri State University	Missouri, United States
156	The New School	New York, United States
157	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Alaska, United States
158	University of California Merced	California, United States
159	University of California Davis	California, United States
160	University of California, Santa Barbara	California, United States
161	University of Central Florida	Florida, United States
162	University of Connecticut	Connecticut, United States
163	University of Florida	Florida, United States
164	University of Idaho	Idaho, United States
165	University of Hawaii	Hawaii, United States
166	University of Maine	Maine, United States
167	University of Michigan	Michigan, United States
168	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	Minnesota, United States
169	University of Missouri	Missouri, United States
170	University of Notre Dame	Indiana, United States
171	William and Mary	Virginia, United States
172	Yale University	Connecticut, United States
173	Birmingham City University	England, United Kingdom
174	De Montfort University	England, United Kingdom
175	Cardiff Metropolitan University	England, United Kingdom
176	Heriot-Watt University	Scotland, United Kingdom
177	Oxford Brookes University	England, United Kingdom
178	Curtin University	Western Australia, Australia
179	UTS College	New South Wales, Australia
180	Mohawk College	Ontario, Canada