Sustainable Urban Design

Overview

Drawing on best practices and advanced research into, the Master’s programme in Sustainable Urban Design at the Lund University produces highly skilled professionals capable of meeting the challenges of sustainable urban design as productive, successful individuals who are creative, insightful and intellectually skilled in their approach to the profession and their practice.

Theoretical learning is supported by hands-on projects aiming to find solutions to real-world issues. The programme features international collaboration workshops, where professionals and students from architecture, landscape architecture and urban design from around the world gather to discuss and design proposals for a given sustainable urban design challenge.

Career prospects

After graduating from the programme, you will have the required skills to practise as an urban designer with particular expertise in sustainable urban design. Our graduates are highly sought after on the global job market, and most find positions either in architect offices, government organisations or in further studies at PhD level. The programme’s close ties to professionals active in the field of urban development as a whole, mean that our students are given the opportunity to build a strong initial network that can help to kick-start and develop their careers.