MSc in Regional and Urban Planning Studies

Programme code: TMRUP

Department: Geography & Environment

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

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

GY447

The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (H)

2

GY448

Social and Political Aspects of Regional and Urban Planning (H)

3

GY454

Urban Policy and Planning (H)

4

Courses to the value of one and a half units:

 

GI409

Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (H)

GI420

Globalisation, Gender and Development: Theorising Policy and Practice (H)

GY400

The Economics of Urbanisation (H)

GY403

Contemporary Debates in Human Geography (H)

GY407

Globalization, Regional Development and Policy

GY410

Economics of Local and Regional Development (H)

GY413

Regional Development and Policy (H)

GY415

Local Capacity and Economic Development Policy (H) (not available 2017/18)

GY421

Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H) (not available 2017/18)

GY431

Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H)

GY432

Urban Ethnography (H)

GY438

Cities and Social Change in East Asia (H)

GY439

Cities, Politics and Citizenship (H)

GY441

The Politics of Housing (H)

GY446

Planning for Sustainable Cities (H) (not available 2017/18)

GY449

Urban Futures (H)

GY455

Economic Appraisal and Valuation (H)

GY460

Techniques of Spatial Economic Analysis

GY464

Race and Space (H) (not available 2017/18)

GY465

Concepts in Environmental Regulation (H)

GY467

Development, Diaspora and Migration (H) (not available 2017/18)

GY470

Urban Africa (H)

GY479

Urban Revolutions (H)

GY480

Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (H) (not available 2017/18)

SA4C6

International Housing and Human Settlements (H)

SA4F9

Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities (H)

SO465

City-Making: the Politics of Urban Form (H)

SO473

Crime, Control and the City (H)

SO480

Urban Inequalities (H)

 

A half-unit course from another programme at the discretion of the Programme Director §

5

GY450

Planning Practice and Research (non-assessed but compulsory)

6

GY499

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).

Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.