MSc in Regional and Urban Planning Studies
Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units and a dissertation. Additionally all students are required to take GY450 Planning Practice and Research.
| Paper | Course number and title | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (H) | |
| 2 | Social and Political Aspects of Regional and Urban Planning (H) | |
| 3 | Urban Policy and Planning (H) | |
| 4 | Courses to the value of one and a half units: | |
| 
 | Globalisation, Gender and Development † | |
| Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (H) † | ||
| Globalisation, Gender and Development: Theorising Policy and Practice (H) † | ||
| The Economics of Urbanization in Developing Countries (H) | ||
| Contemporary Debates in Human Geography (H) | ||
| Globalization, Regional Development and Policy | ||
| Economics of Local and Regional Development (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
| Regional Development and Policy (H) | ||
| Local Capacity and Economic Development Policy (H) | ||
| Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H) | ||
| Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H) | ||
| Urban Ethnography (H) | ||
| Cities and Social Change in East Asia (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
| Cities, Politics and Citizenship (H) | ||
| The Politics of Housing (H) | ||
| Planning for Sustainable Cities (H) | ||
| Urban Futures (H) | ||
| Economic Appraisal and Valuation (H) | ||
| Techniques of Spatial Economic Analysis | ||
| Race and Space (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
| Concepts in Environmental Regulation (H) | ||
| Development, Diaspora and Migration (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
| Urban Revolutions (H) | ||
| Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (H) | ||
| International Housing and Human Settlements (H) | ||
| Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities (H) | ||
| City-making: the Politics of Urban Form (H) | ||
| Crime, Control and the City (H) | ||
| Urban Inequalities (H) | ||
| 
 | A half-unit course from another programme at the discretion of the Programme Director § | |
| 5 | Planning Practice and Research (non-assessed but compulsory) | |
| 6 | Dissertation | |
| Notes | ||
| § means by special permission only. | ||
| This programme is externally accredited by the RICS. Further information is available on the Geography and Environment Department website (see Quick Links to Regional and Urban Planning Studies). | ||

