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Postgraduate Certificate Urban Design

University of Westminster — London, United Kingdom

Postgraduate Certificate Urban Design is a postgraduate Urban Planning course at University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. It takes 1 year, costs £9,340 per year and starts in September.

Postgraduate · 1 year · Part-time · Urban Planning · £9,340 per year

Intakes: September

Urban design involves shaping the physical setting for life in cities. This course provides a practical preparation for professionals entering urban design practice. It gives you an opportunity to study urban design at postgraduate level, without the need to commit to the full MA course. It also gives practitioners in the urban environment the necessary basic skills in urban design to enable government to deliver its vision of an ‘urban renaissance’. The course recognises that busy planners, landscape architects, architects, highway engineers and surveyors might not have the time or resources to commit to a part-time Master's course. Top reasons to study this course (from the course page): - Excellent course reputation – Our urban design postgraduate course is one of the longest established in the UK and has an excellent reputation in the industry - Learn from experts – You’ll be taught by staff with many years' experience in practice, education, training, research, and consultancy in the UK and overseas - Central London location – Our central London location allows you to interact with a huge variety of practitioners and organisations, as well as drawing on the city's huge range of resources; you’ll be at the heart of the debate over the future of cities - Live-design projects – The course theory and design modules utilise London and the south east of England as an urban laboratory where projects are based on active development sites or set within current areas of change, typically experiencing development pressures or other development challenges, similar to work taking place in practice Campus: Marylebone, Central London Duration: 1 year Start dates: Part-time day release - September 2027 International tuition fee: £9,340 (Price per academic year). The university states annual fees stay the same throughout your studies. Careers (from the course page): Graduates of this course are usually built environment professionals who work with or oversee urban designers, for example in management positions, who need to understand the urban design profession and work requirements. These individuals will not usually be undertaking urban design directly, but working with urban design teams. This course provides a practical preparation for professionals needing to understand the urban design profession and its professional work, and the option to study urban design at postgraduate level without the need to commit to the full MA or Postgraduate Diploma. Graduate employers named on the course page: AECOM, Barton Willmore, Borough councils in London, Broadway Malyan, Broxbourne Council, DAR Group, Design Council, Gensler, Greater London Authority, Grimshaw, Hawkins Brown Architects, IBI Group. Source: University of Westminster course page.

Modules

• Urban Design and Development Process (Core)
• Urban Design Project (Core)
• Information Management Applications for Urban Planning (Option)
• Emerging Landscapes and Urban Ecologies (Option)
• Environmental Policy, Assessment and Climate Change (Option)
• Conservation and Heritage (Option)
• Communities Towards Sustainability: Public Engagement (Option)
• Housing and Urban Regeneration (Option)
• Planning for Urban Risk and Resilience (Option)
• Sustainable Neighbourhood Development and Management (Option)
• International Spatial Planning Practice (Option)
• Place, Space and Active Transport (Option)
• Land Use Planning and Transport (Option)
• Destination Development: Case Study Perspective (Option)

Careers

• Design manager or team leader in a local authority
• Development manager
• Project manager