Sustainable Urban Practice University of Cape Town

Overview

At University of Cape Town you can choose to study a Master of Arts in Sustainable Urban Practice.

Overview

The complex, multi-dimensional demands of our rapidly urbanising world require holistic, inter-disciplinary thinking and practice. However traditional professional paradigms and often-siloed institutions seem doomed to replicate the entrenched patterns and practices of path-dependent urban infrastructure provision and management.

To overcome the often-fragmented ways in which urban questions are framed, institutionalised, and engaged by varied levels of government, citizens, civil society organisations, and private sector actors, we need a new kind of urban practitioner, who can work across practices, professional norms, hierarchies, sectors and urban problems.

This programme is aimed at mid-career urban professionals in either government, civil society, or in the private sector, who have realised the limits of their practice. The programme provides students with specialist knowledge of urban theoretical frameworks, and schools them in the critical and analytical tools to assess these from a global South perspective.