Spotlight on… BSc Urban Planning, Design and Management

What is it about?

Urban planning is concerned with the complex management of change within the built and natural environment. This programme is distinctive in combining traditional urban planning modules with practical urban design and urban management modules, giving you the theoretical understanding and practical skills to work in both traditional planning careers and in various related professional and specialist areas.

What will I study?

BSc Urban Planning, Design & Management delivers an academic and vocational education structured around three themes:

1. Understanding urban change – providing students with a coherent understanding of urbanism and the built environment and covering a range of subjects such as environmental sustainability, economics, sociology, politics and development processes.
2. Managing urban change – focuses on public and private processes of managing urban change, and the organisations that contribute to it, emphasising the importance of management theory and practice in contemporary professional life.
3. Delivering urban change – emphasises the importance of hands-on project and design work to give students an opportunity to put into practice the knowledge gained in the other streams through design, regeneration, development and local or strategic planning work.

These themes are shared with our other two degree programmes, BSc Urban Studies and BSc Planning and Real Estate, but on this degree you will have the opportunity to develop your specialism in planning and urban design.

Why UCL?

Based in the heart of London, we can offer the unique opportunity for students to study the complexities of contemporary urbanism and urban change with a particular emphasis on pro-active engagement in urban problems, through live project work in and around London.

The School’s close links with policy-makers and professionals also means that we are able to incorporate directly involvement with professional practitioners into our teaching and learning environments.

Our class sizes are conducive to the range of teaching styles and methods of assessment, including individual, group and project-based workshops, seminars and lectures, tutorials, site visits and field trips, which make our programmes so distinctive.

Where does it lead?

This programme is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and recognised by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI).  Students are well placed to follow careers in planning, urban design, surveying and other built environment disciplines.

Students seeking RTPI accreditation will be required to do a further Masters degree and complete two years of work experience.  The Bartlett School of Planning offers 10 Masters degrees in planning and specialist disciplines, for example urban regeneration, housing, transport and megaprojects.

Key information

ABB at A level and 34 points at IB. No specific subject requirements. For alternative entry qualifications, please go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/degrees/urban-planning-design-management-bsc/

Find out more: www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/programmes/undergraduate/bsc-urban-planning-design-management

Contact: Jessica Ferm: j.ferm@ucl.ac.uk

@BartlettUCL

*We are currently accepting applications for our Urban Planning, Design & Real Estate Taster day this July – get your application in quick if you’re interested!*