Urban Planning and Management

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