Program:
Urban Systems

Employer description

Engineers with specializations in community and urban planning disciplines who can work effectively in multi-functional teams.

Student description

Gain the high-level technical knowledge and urban planning perspective to design and manage urban infrastructure systems and create more resilient cities.

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Urban Systems Experts

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Enhance your team with UBC MEL in Urban Systems graduates, ready to build resilient cities. Our experienced professionals bring a blend of technical, business, and leadership skills to drive urban infrastructure and smart city projects.

Urban Systems Faculty & Leadership

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Instructor and leadership team for the urban systems team.

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,…

City planning for possible futures

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We interviewed Dr.

A human-centred approach to infrastructure planning and investment

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Why study urban planning?

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Discover how a master’s degree in Urban Planning at UBC empowers future leaders to build sustainable, inclusive, and smart cities for tomorrow.

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…

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