Urban Planning and Design

Overview

Urban Planning and Design graduates from Makerere University need to be able to develop the following abilities:

• To enable students from architecture and design disciplines to develop skills and employ their knowledge in developing complex socially, environmentally and economically sustainable urban and spatial planning strategies.
• To use design thinking as a critical, interrogative process through which to explore the broader parameters of the research within a particular situation or environment.
• To conceptualize, define, and analyze design problems and opportunities at the urban scale.
• To analyze and evaluate the performance of design projects and policies.
• To understand the processes which generate urban form.
• To synthesize and manage strategies for implementation in urban planning and design involving public and private development actions.
• To work successfully with the public and the planning and design professions that shape the urban environment.
• To contribute creatively to the resolution of urban problems through design.
• Promote the acquisition of advanced practical and demand driven skills in the area of Urban planning and Design.
• Independently and effectively solve multi-faceted issues of the day to day activities in the field.
• Communicate ideas in clear and compelling ways – visually, orally, and in writing – as is demanded by the urban designer’spublic role.

Target Group

The programme targets graduates with Honours degree in a discipline related to the built environment and the city (e.g. Architecture, Planning, Surveying, Engineering, Construction Management, Land use Planning, Geography, Landscape Planning/Architecture). Candidates with alternative professional experience may also be considered.