Urban Management and Development (M.Sc.)

This master track focuses on how digital innovation and transformation impact urban socio-economic development and governance.
Digital technology has disrupted urban development and profoundly reshaped the way cities operate. From using big data to managing traffic flows to the Internet of Things (IoT) applications used to manage energy consumption in public places, urban spaces are becoming increasingly digitized. Such digital transformations and innovation drive socio-economic change and impact city governance. In this programme, you will learn about the economics and governance of urban digital transformations and innovation.

This master track will focus on understanding, applying, and evaluating how the right to land, housing and urban services can be achieved.
Access for all to affordable housing and accompanying basic social, economic and physical infrastructure and services, such as schools, health centres, employment opportunities, public transport and public space, remains a global challenge rooted in unequal access to land. The result is often seen in processes of urban socio-spatial segregation and exclusion, urban poverty and homelessness across the global north and south.The Urban Housing and Land Justice: Equitable Access to Sustainable Land, Housing & Services programme is a master track within the MSc in Urban Management and Development. The programme focuses on understanding and evaluating the complex processes of providing and financing equitable access to land, adequate housing and urban services. It investigates processes and structures behind such provision with a human-right perspective. Land and housing rights are at the centre of the theoretical underpinnings related to socio-spatial justice, urban inclusion, and tenure security.

This programme focuses on different analytical and practical approaches to foster resilience and environmental sustainability in urban areas worldwide.
Smart and resilient cities are essential in tackling the growing threat of climate instability. In this programme you will gain the qualifications to become an urban development professional specialised in environment, sustainability and climate change management.