Programme - in detail

First year

During the first year you will study essential sub-disciplines: urban design, spatial planning and landscape architecture. Each term offers a research and design project, which is supported by courses on the history of urban theories, urban techniques, research skills and lectures on the practice of urbanism. All explicitly address societal and scientific approaches to issues relating to urbanisation and the associated debates on these approaches.

• MSc 1, 1st term: Analysis and Design of Urban Form
• MSc 1, 2nd term: Social-Spatial Processes in the City
• MSc 2, 1st term: Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis

Second year

During the second year, you will work on an individual graduation project on a topic that reflects the research priorities within the department. For example, the Complex City Regions in Transformation studio is linked to the research of the Randstad Centre for Strategic Spatial Planning and Design, and the Coastal Metropolis studio is linked to research of carried out by the Urban Landscape Architecture team. The emphasis in the Master’s programme is on design-oriented research, such as study by design and evaluations of designs.

Studios

• Urban Regeneration in the European Context
• Urban Delta Landscape
• Complex Cities and Regions in Transformation
• Future Cities (by The Why Factory)
• Explorelab
• Urban Acupuncture
• Design as Politics
• Delta Interventions

You will find a wide variety of examples of MSc theses on Urbanism in the digital Institutional Repository of TU Delft Library.