Over the last century, urban design has gradually emerged as a distinct field in response to:

1. built environment professionals needing to work collaboratively with the drivers of urban change to influence urban places at the ‘precinct scale’ of a city or town.

2. the need for better design skills at urban scales: streets, street blocks, town centres, city districts, new suburbs, and cross-city infrastructure.

Urban design is an integrated discipline that includes a broad range of knowledge and skills including but not limited to economic, environmental, social, spatial and infrastructure planning, housing, urban data science, place-making and governance. The course is offered with a strong commitment to understanding the relationship of urban design and form to Aboriginal culture and Country.

During your Master of Urban Design degree a combination of core and elective units will allow you to obtain the knowledge and the ability to contribute to such a broad understanding of urban development processes, design and form. It is strongly recommended that students enrol in core courses that are prerequisites for other units before taking electives.

Planning your degree

The program has been designed so that some core units should be taken in a certain order and the remaining core and elective units fitted with them. A recommended enrolment planner for the core units of the degree follows.

Refer to the unit of study table for the Electives for this program.