City Planning & Regeneration

Optional Courses

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

• 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.
• 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.
• Regenerating Cities  is a 20 credits course that provides an overview of the development, delivery and impact of regeneration strategies. It explores the challenges of achieving effective regeneration in UK cities in the context of global change and competition, while also considering experiences in North American and Europe.