City Planning & Real Estate Development

Optional Courses

Students on the MSc in City Planning & Real Estate Development are required to take the following 40 credits of specialist courses:

• Real Estate Development is designed to enable students to understand the process of real estate development and its relationship to broader social, economic and political forces.  This optional course is worth 10 credits.
• Real Estate Markets investigates the determinants of real estate values by  enabling students to visualise real estate as a series of linked markets and submarkets, which themselves relate to, and reflect, broader economic, social and political forces.
• Spatial Planning Strategies seeks to enable and encourage students to generate visionary and imaginative responses to spatial planning challenges, which are realistic and derive from substantial investigation and analysis of relevant data and other evidence.
• Designing Places provides students with an appreciation of the importance and process of design in creating high quality places and enhancing the public realm and to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative design approaches in achieving this.