Urban Design
2024
- Students need to use My Programme Requirements to view courses that are part of their degree, and this includes non-Urban Design courses in the combined programmes.
- Each programme page has a sample structure diagram as a visual reference to assist with planning your studies and enrolling in your courses.
- Below are the Postgraduate courses offered in Urban Design.
URBDES 702 - Urban Design Theory and Practice
- Course prescription: The language of urban design, urban analysis, urban history, contemporary theory, international and local practice, allied disciplines, cities in the developing world and pacific urbanism.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Programme restriction: MArch(Prof), MArch(Prof)UrbDes, MUrbDes, MUrbPlan(Prof), MUrbPlan(Prof)UrbDes
- Points: 15
URBDES 703 - Directed Study
- Course prescription: See the digital course outline for information.
- Semester availability: Semester One and Two
- Programme restriction: MUrbDes, MUrbPlan(Prof)UrbDes
- Points: 15
URBDES 705 - Urban Design Site Analysis
- Course prescription: Urban morphology, site analyses and an exploration of a contemporary urban design issue.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Programme restriction: MUrbDes, MUrbPlan(Prof)UrbDes
- Points: 15
URBDES 710 - Urban Design Studio 1
- Course prescription: An urban design project involving in-depth specialised research on the implications for urban design at the strategic scale.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Programme restriction: MArch(Prof)UrbDes, MUrbDes, MUrbPlan(Prof)UrbDes
- Points: 30
URBDES 720 - Urban Design Studio 2
- Course prescription: An advanced urban design project involving highly specialised research related to the analysis and design of the built environment.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Prerequisite: URBDES 710
- Programme restriction: MArch(Prof)UrbDes, MUrbDes, MUrbPlan(Prof)UrbDes
- Points: 30
URBDES 730 - Urban Design Research Project
- Course prescription: Individual research project in an aspect of urban design theory or practice.
- Semester availability: Semester One and Two
- Programme restriction: MUrbDes
- Note: Only MUrbDes students exempt from UBRPLAN 707 and 712
- Points: 30
URBPLAN 707 - Urban Economic Development
- Course prescription: Principles of urban economics. Economic development, urban planning strategies. Asset management and property development.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Points: 15
URBPLAN 712 - Sustainable Urbanism
- Course prescription: Research into critical and contemporary urban planning issues.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Points: 15