City Planning & Real Estate Development

Optional Courses

Students on the MSc in City Planning & Real Estate Development are required to take the following 60 credits of specialist courses:

• 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
• Contemporary Planning Systems examines the spatial planning system, focusing on its evolution, structure and processes. It critically explores the institutional and legal framework within which planning takes place and critically engages contemporary planning practices, debates, theories, controversies, issues and concerns. While emphasising British planning systems, the course brings in a lot of international examples.
• 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.
• 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.
• Real Estate Valuation and Appraisal equips students with the mathematical principles underpinning real estate valuation and appraisal, and enable them to use a selection of traditional and contemporary techniques based on mathematical formulae to value land and buildings.