Urban Planning and Management

Urban Planning and Management

Urban Planning and Management

Extramural Master Program

Russian language

120 ECTS

2,5 years

Faculty of Public and Municipal Administration

Tuition fee:

199 000 ₽/year

Advantages:

  • Training that enables one to become a professional who is ready to create a comfortable urban environment
  • Internships in leading Russian urban project and development companies countrywide as well as in state bodies and municipal authorities
  • Interactive learning: not only lectures but seminars, discussions, case studies, workshops
  • Leading local and international professionals in the field of urban management are involved as lecturers

CURRICULUM

Main courses:

  • Modern Urban Studies
  • Development of Smart Cities
  • Transformation of the Urban Development Planning System
  • Data Science in Urban Studies
  • Management of Urban Environment Safety
  • Management of Comfortable Urban Environment Development
  • Ensuring Transport Accessibility and Sustainable Mobility in Cities
  • Global Trends and Methodology of Sustainable Development
  • «Green» Solutions in the Development of Urban Infrastructure and Circular Economy in Cities
  • City Finances and City Economy
  • Involvement of the Urban Community in Decision-Making Processes
  • Effective Management of Public and Municipal Authorities in the Development of Urban Agglomerations
  • Information Resources and Open Data in Urban Management
  • Urban Research
  • Urban Environment Design Practices

Learning outcomes:

  • Readiness to handle non-standard situations, bear social and ethical responsibility for decisions made
  • Ability to create technologies to address complex management issues in critical situations
  • Ability to use knowledge of methods and theories of the humanities, social and economic sciences in carrying out expert and analytical work
  • Ability to plan and organize a public body activity, develop an organizational structure aligned with the strategy, goals, objectives, internal and external conditions of the public body activities, distribute functions, powers and responsibilities between performers
  • Public speaking skills and the ability to communicate with public bodies, business and citizens

Research:

  • Modern urban studies at the global, regional and local levels
  • Urban studies of the largest cities and agglomerations
  • Evolution of settlements (settlement networks) and social transformations in the regions of Russia and abroad. Nonlinear dynamics of settlement networks
  • Study of agglomeration processes and factors that determine the successful development of a territory (economies of scale, diversity, production and dissemination of innovations)
  • Assessment of negative agglomeration effects in modern cities (rising real estate prices, higher cost of living, traffic jams, deterioration of environment, increased crime, increased incidence of diseases, etc.)
  • Strategizing the development of urban systems
  • Urbanization and formation of a comfortable urban environment
  • Evaluation and relationship of urban environment components to the success of economic development of agglomeration
  • Creative industries and urbanism

Career opportunities:

  • Representative of international organizations in sustainable development
  • Professional in comfortable urban environment
  • Professional in urban and local society interaction
  • Professional in business-authority relations
  • Project and architectural office employee
  • Urban improvement officer

Employers:

  • State and municipal authorities
  • Administrations of various levels
  • Legislative entities
  • Analytical and expert agencies and organizations
  • Public organizations
  • Scientific and educational organizations

Admission requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

Program director: Dr. Maksim Denisov

57/43 Sredny prospekt, Vasilievsky Island, St.Petersburg, 199178, Russia

Tel.: +7 (812) 335-94-94, ext. 1389

E-mail: denisov-mv@ranepa.ru