Program:
Urban Systems
Engineers with specializations in community and urban planning disciplines who can work effectively in multi-functional teams.
Gain the high-level technical knowledge and urban planning perspective to design and manage urban infrastructure systems and create more resilient cities.
Urban Systems Courses
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Gain skills in urban planning, infrastructure management, sustainability, and leadership from industry-leading faculty in the Faculty of Applied Science and UBC Sauder’s Robert H. Lee Graduate School.
Urban Systems Program Details
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Equip yourself for leadership in urban planning. The MEL in Urban Systems prepares professionals to develop sustainable, resilient cities through expertise in infrastructure, green building, and smart city strategies.
Urban Systems
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Transform your career. This interdisciplinary program will expand your understanding of current global best practices in sustainable cities, enabling you to develop viable strategies to develop and implement transformative solutions.
Addressing Climate Change in City Planning
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Climate change is having – and will continue to have – a disproportionate impact on our cities. Urban centres are major contributors to climate change, and they also acutely experience its effects. Coastal cities are affected by rising sea levels,…
A human-centred approach to infrastructure planning and investment
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By Martino Tran, Associate Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning, Principal Investigator of the Urban Predictive Analytics Lab, Canada Research Chair in Computational Urban Science and Planning, and instructor and former co-…
Why Study Urban Planning?
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The crises of climate change and inequality call for new approaches to urban planning. Cities are both significant contributors to climate change and disproportionately affected by climate impacts, just as they are sites of innovative economic…
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban planning
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By Jordi Honey-Rosés, former Associate Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning, Director of the Water Planning Lab and former instructor in the MEL in Urban Systems The COVID-19 global pandemic has brought renewed attention to our…
Developing innovative urban planning ideas for a sustainable community
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MEL in Urban Systems students propose innovations in urban planning to support a city's environmental, social and economic goals.