Urbanism

Cities are sources of inspiration and fascination, shaped by multiple hands. Cities are also places where the complex challenges of climate change and social justice intersect. What if we could lessen humanity’s impact on the planet by reshaping our societies to prioritize habitat restoration, embrace nature-inclusive practices, promote shared access to infrastructure, and cultivate deeper connections through community and localism?  During the Master in Urbanism you will learn to understand the city in all its complexity and often improbable scale to make smart strategic development proposals for its future and to make both functional and attractive design proposals for actual places in the city, while learning to consider the impact of these processes on our planet.  As urban planner, you will learn to translate the desires of citizens, entrepreneurs and administrators, and the analyses, theories and stories of sociologists, economists, town and country planners, traffic engineers and similar disciplines into concrete and meaningful spatial design proposals—for the street, neighbourhood, district, city and urban region. While doing so, you will learn to consider other-than-human and nature perspectives as equally central stakeholders in cities shaping.

Amsterdam University of the Arts (Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten) is one of the largest art schools in Europe, offering programs in music, theater, dance, and visual arts.