10 Master Programmes in Urban Design in Spain for 2024

Calling future urban thinkers who are curious and interested in how we can revitalise post-industrial cities! This exciting and unique Master's programme wants to create an educational experience which recognizes and responds critically to issues of cities in different forms and stages of post-industrial transition and educates the next generation of specialists with the 21st century skills and knowledge needed to address the challenges and opportunities of cities in transition and superdiverse societies. It is the ideal program for professionals involved in the design, planning, management or evaluation of the city who want to join a vibrant knowledge and innovation community committed to the rethinking of more sustainable urban futures. RePIC fosters transformative modes of teaching, research, and learning - responding to the specific challenges and characteristics of post-industrial cities.

This institute, in a time of climate change, is addressed to those who wish, through practice or education, to improve the quality of life in cities worldwide. In that spirit, the Graduate Program on Sustainable Cities will combine practical on-site experience with academic input from the foundation’s network of international experts.

The Master's Program in Design for Urban Environment trains professionals to take part in the process of urban transformation by designing ideas that help to reinforce the social, cultural, and economic fabric of 21st-century cities.

Healthy Cities and Sustainable Cities are two sides of the same coin: both place citizens’ well-being and sustainability at the heart of urban transformation. There is currently a lack of programmes that address this need for urban planners and designers who are trained to achieve some of the sustainable development goals in a comprehensive manner through urban design.

The Master's Degree in Architecture and Urbanism Projects is aimed at professionals with an interest in participating by integrating work teams for the development, administration and management of Urban Architectural projects.

The Master's Degree in Research and Innovation in Architecture Intervention in Heritage, Rehabilitation and Regeneration is a master's degree which arises from the extensive experience of the three departments of the School of Architecture of Valladolid (Architectural Constructions; Theory of Architecture and Architectural Projects; Urban Planning and Representation of Architecture). The Master has a common base of Innovation in Architecture and three specific lines of specialization that will appear in the corresponding degree: Sustainable intervention in the Architectural, Urban and Territorial Heritage; Architectural and Urban Regeneration and Rehabilitation; Research in Architecture and Urbanism. It is aimed at recent graduates and those professionals with years of experience who wish to reorient their activity towards fields of interest in the contemporary working environment, updating their training and complementing it with a master's degree that will allow them to broaden their professional horizons.

The master's degree in Urban Tourism provides an opportunity to train in a very dynamic professional area with excellent future prospects, in a context of rapidly changing cities, increasing consolidation of the smart city model, and the emergence of the urban environment as a tourism hub. The course focuses specifically on urban tourism, unlike other courses that cover tourism in general. It includes two new areas: entrepreneurship in urban destinations; and knowledge generation and smart tourism.

The practice of landscaping contemplates a wide variety of professional opportunities. The Master in Landscaping of the Urban Environment enables the necessary skills to achieve adequate access to the professional practice of landscaping committed to sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation. In this master's degree, you will learn to apply concepts such as bio-construction and xero-gardening and you will acquire the ability to strategically advise on urban plans, landscaping projects and policies related to the landscape.

The aim of the master’s degree in Urban Mobility is to improve urban mobility in our cities and around the world. This requires not just improvements in technical infrastructure (towards intelligent transport infrastructure, the Internet of Things, etc.) but also holistic planning, execution, and operation. Urban transformation obliges stakeholders to interact and understand others’ perspectives to make this improvement. This programme trains students from a variety of engineering backgrounds and equips them with the sector’s specific skills. It allows them to gain further, in-depth knowledge of the transition towards sustainable mobility, future services, and markets and the impact of ICTs and energy technologies. The programme also provides fundamental tools in entrepreneurship and innovation for dealing with the rapid transformation of a global society. There is currently no other master’s degree in Spain that provides such comprehensive education in this field.