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About this degree
Cities are complex, diverse, and globally interconnected. To develop insights into global urban experiences and respond to contemporary challenges we need to collaborate and build knowledge across often very different locations, and to draw on multiple academic disciplines, professions and communities. The Bartlett’s Global Urbanism MASc is the first urban Master’s degree to cut radically across arts, humanities, social sciences and technology studies, giving you the opportunity to specialise in urbanism as a challenge-driven and practice-oriented transdisciplinary field.
Drawing from the distinctive breadth of UCL’s urban expertise, the programme will equip you with state-of-the-art knowledge of urbanism – a term that embraces the social and cultural life of cities, and the numerous approaches and practices which set out to understand and shape urban futures. You will graduate with the ability to draw from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, conceptual frameworks, methods, and practices. You will have the tools to engage across diverse cities and lead in a variety of roles in urban policy, research, and practice.
The MASc offers a choice of two pathways, Global Studio or London Studio. In addition to a shared core curriculum, each pathway offers you the opportunity to build your critical understandings of global urbanism, specialising either in the highly globalised urban context of London, or in a selected international partner city. You will learn in a collaborative and experimental research setting, engaging with your environs and the university’s local and international partners.
The programme will be delivered by UCL Urban Laboratory as part of The Bartlett at UCL East, in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, east London – an area that has undergone huge and rapid change since the 1980s and is unrivalled in the opportunity it offers to study the dynamics of urbanisation.
Who this course is for
This MASc provides an accredited route for those wishing to pursue further advanced urban research, and/or a professional development pathway for those working (or aiming to develop a career) in a position that requires sophisticated understanding of urban challenges and development in London and other cities internationally.
What this course will give you
The programme is hosted and delivered by UCL Urban Laboratory (a cross-disciplinary department of The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment) at UCL East. The QS World University Rankings (2023) places The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment as the #1 for Architecture/Built Environment studies in the world, and #1 in the UK for the ninth year in a row. You will benefit from and contribute to UCL Urban Laboratory’s track record of advancing engaged, critical and creative urban research, teaching and public engagement over nearly two decades.
Urban Lab’s activities focus on intervention and experimentation across different epistemologies and practices, whether through community collaboration, design, policy, or historical and theoretical engagement. The programme provides the opportunity to engage with innovative methodologies, theories and practices developed at UCL and grounded in the university’s history of radical, engaged, ground-breaking research on London and the partner cities.
Students will be based at UCL East: a dynamic transdisciplinary postgraduate research environment. Urban Lab, the UCL Urban Room and The Bartlett at UCL East all prioritise links to industry, professional built environment practice, community organisations, and UCL’s East Bank partners. It is envisaged that students’ research projects will be developed through collaborations that build on these networks.