Urban Design, Planning, & Art

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The vital role of designers in shaping the physical environment and its relationship to the natural world is at the core of the school’s pedagogy. Urban Design and Real Estate Development, and the nexus between them, form a critical field of inquiry supported by the School’s Center for Urban & Community Design and two distinct Master programs: the Master of Urban Design and the Master of Real Estate Development + Urbanism.

In 1989, the School initiated its first graduate program, a post-professional curriculum titled Master of Architecture in Suburb and Town Design (current Master of Urban Design). Program Director (and former Dean) Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who founded the acclaimed and highly influential program, is recognized for her foundational role in the development of the New Urbanism as an alternative to urban and suburban sprawl. Subsequently, the School’s highly successful Master of Real Estate in Development + Urbanism program, an interdisciplinary initiative of the schools of Architecture, Business Administration, and Law, was developed by Associate Professor Charles Bohl in 2008 with the assistance of the Knight Foundation. The program blends the fundamentals of real estate development with livable community planning and design. More recently, Rodolphe el-Khoury, formerly the director of urban design at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty, was appointed U-SoA Dean.

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