Urban Design

Architects, urban, regional and landscape planners often cannot really do justice to the complex tasks of urban planning with their specialist knowledge and skills. It requires a multidisciplinary, cooperative approach, both because of the complexity of the tasks and the large number of actors involved. The Master's degree in Urban Design is located at the intersection of architecture, urban and regional planning, sociology and landscape architecture.

In cooperation with the Tongji University in Shanghai/China, there is the possibility of completing the Urban Design course in parallel as a double master's program (dual degree program). Participants in this special program study together for one year in Berlin and one year in Shanghai.

Urban design has long been forgotten as an independent discipline in Germany. In Anglo-Saxon countries it was previously offered as a primarily scientific degree. For the first time in Germany, the Urban Design master’s course was developed at the Technical University of Berlin. It is closely intertwined with other courses and offers you an intensively interlinked study program. Teaching in the Urban Design course is carried out by the Institutes for Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Sociology. Since the course is internationally oriented, the compulsory subjects are held in English. In cooperation with the Tongji University in Shanghai/ China, the urban design course is also offered as a dual master's program (dual degree program). The course is conducted in English and is open to 20 students, with a contingent of ten places being allocated exclusively to Chinese prospective students. All participants in this special program study together for one year each in Berlin and Shanghai and receive a Chinese and a German master’s degree at the end of the dual degree program. As an urban designer, you are creatively and scientifically active. They work in state, municipal and civil society institutions, in universities and research institutes as well as in private offices. Their fields of activity are large, medium and small towns as well as rural areas. Your range of work includes the elaboration of goals and strategies for urban development and master plans as well as the planning and implementation of urban development measures. Scientific investigations and expert work on urban planning issues are another focus of work at home and abroad.