The Master of Urban Planning degree is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills required for urban planning practice in an increasingly complex and diverse urban world. Urban planners play a strategic role in shaping our challenging urban environments – economically, environmentally, socially and culturally. This professionally accredited degree focuses on issues including: Policy formulation and implementation Urban sustainability Urban design Urban economics Social and cultural matters Infrastructure design The research-led teaching programme draws on the latest developments in planning scholarship and examines a range of New Zealand and overseas examples of best urban planning practice.

Urban planner in the public, private or non-government sectors. Regional planner. Urban designer. Community and economic development.