Master of Arts (Urban Design)
For inquiries about the
MAUD program, please
e-mail program director
Mr
Low Boon Liang |
Welcome!
The Master of Arts
(Urban Design) program is a one-year intensive course that aims
to inculcate in graduates the ability to study the city in more
complex and inclusive terms and to design successful urban
spaces that take into careful consideration current and future
users based on an understanding of a wide range of issues
including those impinging on economics, ecology, sociology,
environmental psychology, technology, urban geography, cultural
theory to real estate.
The rapid urbanisation of the Asian landscape and the equally
swift transformation of its cities expose the urgent need in the
region for design professionals, especially practising
architects and planners, trained to tackle creatively problems
of designing within existing urban fabrics as well as at the
periphery of rapidly growing cities. They are needed to handle
the design of urban areas of different types and scales ranging
from the layout of towns and the restructuring of inner cities
to the shaping of streets as settings for public life and the
provision of open spaces that nurture civic consciousness.
The primary aim of the Master of Arts (Urban Design) is to offer
a broad-based education in the theory and practice of urban
design to enhance the knowledge and abilities of professionals
involved in the design, creation, and evaluation of urban
spaces.
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