Building and Urban Design in Development UCL

Overview

The Building and Urban Design in Development programme will equip students:

• To develop a deeper understanding of the role of urban design as a transdisciplinary practice.
• To leverage critical urban theory as strategic framework for research based design.  
• To critically analyse, document and spatially visualise complex urban issues.
• To propose spatial strategies that are fundamentally rooted in spatial, social, racial and environmental justice. 
• To think critically about the city and urban process to design its future and anticipating it's building through citizen engagement.
• To engage with partners to experiment with the practice of urban design beyond the classroom through real-life platforms of engagement.

• To understand spatial practices in tandem with developmental processes beyond the Global South-North divide.

What this course will give you

The Bartlett is the UK's largest multidisciplinary Faculty of the Built Environment, bringing together dozens of scientific and professional specialisms required to research, understand, design, construct and operate the buildings and urban environments of the future.

The Development Planning Unit is an international centre concerned with promoting sustainable forms of development, understanding rapid urbanisation and encouraging innovation in the policy, planning and management responses to the economic, social and environmental development of cities and regions, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Its programmes are supported by international agencies as well as by national and provincial governments.

Employability

• The programme enables graduates to work in NGOs and local government – facilitating community organisations and households to improve their living conditions. 
• Graduate destinations range from UK-based organisations in the public, private and community sectors, to governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations, which operate in a development capacity in the South. 
• Recent University College London (UCL) graduates have also been employed by international NGOs and aid and development agencies and architectural and design practices. 
• Some graduates return to their home countries and engage in urban design and architecture practice, teaching, or research of urban development there; others have successfully sought employment away from their own countries.