Design & Urban Ecologies

• New Approaches to Urban Practice

  Integrate aspects of architecture, urban design, urban planning, and landscape architecture in new ways by forefronting issues of sociospatial and environmental justice.

• Change for Urban Communities

  Apply designing as a methodology through which to explore and combat social, economic, political, and environmental injustices in urban ecosystems.

• NYC Immersion

  Use New York and other world cities as living laboratories to gain an understanding of the forces that influence the processes of urban decline, restructuring, and development.

• Community Collaboration

  Devise design strategies and infrastructures that lead to social and spatial transformation, working alongside and within the communities directly affected.

• Critical Engagement

  Use innovative methodologies to confront and engage with globalization, deindustrialization, migration, climate change, and shifts in urban policy and governance.

• Applicant Profile

  This interdisciplinary program attracts students from diverse backgrounds, including the humanities and social sciences, law, architecture, communication design, and environmental studies.

• Admission Requirements: International applicants are required to follow all admission procedures for U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Please pay special attention to the transcript requirements for applicants with foreign credentials.
• Transcripts: Review the admission procedures for U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Please pay special attention to the transcript requirements for applicants with foreign credentials.
• TOEFL, IELTS, and PTE, Cambridge English, or Duolingo: A TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE, Cambridge English, or Duolingo score is not required for applicants whose primary language is English or who have earned a four-year degree from a U.S. college/university or from a university where English is the primary language of instruction. Test score requirements are outlined in the application instructions.
• English Language Writing Diagnostic Examination: At Orientation, The New School for Social Research will administer an English Language Writing Diagnostic Examination to all newly enrolling international students who do not meet the criteria for exemption from the TOEFL requirement. Based on the results of this examination, students may be asked to take a supplemental writing course at no cost. The New School maintains the right to require English proficiency testing when deemed necessary.

Graduates are advanced urban design practitioners prepared for careers in a variety of professional settings. Alumni of the program have gone on to work in urbanism; urban and regional planning; community development; public and urban policy; strategic design; development of social, cultural, and environmental enterprises; and urban research and analysis. The program also provides a research foundation that enables students to pursue advanced study at the doctoral level.

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