Sustainable Urban Design

This Sustainable Urban Design MArch program from the University of Nottingham focuses on the design of the public and urban areas. The program is designed to enable graduates to enhance the quality of cities around the world by bringing innovative design into a new relationship with the latest research.

Within this Sustainable Urban Design MArch program from the University of Nottingham you will learn about the structure of urban form, the way that cities function, and how people use them in order to create urban places that respond to the major opportunities and challenges facing society.

This program covers all of the areas required of an urban designer in contemporary practice, including:

• public and urban design theory and practice
• urban regeneration
• sustainable urbanism theory and applications
• urban policy

You will acquire the knowledge and develop the necessary skills to face the contemporary cultural, historical, social, economic, and environmental challenges in terms of achieving holistic sustainability in those realms.

Career opportunities:

Graduates of the MArch Sustainable Urban Design typically go on to work at the interface between urban design and architecture, urban planning, landscape design in architectural or multi-disciplinary practices and design institutes around the world. Many graduates also progress onto PhD study either at Nottingham or other leading universities.

Courses include:

• Sustainable Cities

• Urban Design Theory and Practice

• Advanced Design

• Architecture and Urbanism Research

• Urban Design Management

• Architecture and Built Environment Dissertation or Design Thesis Project