UMDSU

This twelve-month course offers a comprehensive training program that covers the main conceptual issues related to Urban Management & Development (UMD) with a special focus on Sustainable Urbanism. The program provides theories on various topics and takes participants to some real case studies and fieldtrips in Rotterdam and other cities in Netherlands where they will see practical applications of the knowledge provided in the program that will help them in the development of their ateliers, exercises and the final project.

This program uses the concept of sustainable urbanism as a framework for interdisciplinary planning and design of contemporary cities, neighborhoods and settlements. It explores sustainability and urban design in a rapidly urbanizing world by focusing on the actor’s roles and processes that shape the form and function of the built environment in its full complexity – infrastructures, land developments, built landscapes, and facilities – that collectively make up the urban areas.

The program is divided in three modules (Introduction, Foundations and Specialization) that approach UMD & Sustainable Urbanism taking into account the interconnection of environmental, economic, and social issues that are the three pillars of the sustainability.