Urban Design
2025
- Students need to use My Programme Requirements to view courses that are part of their degree, and this includes non-Urban Design courses in the combined programmes.
- Each programme page has a sample structure diagram as a visual reference to assist with planning your studies and enrolling in your courses.
- Below are the Postgraduate courses offered in Urban Design.
URBDES 702 - Urban Design Theory and Practice
- Course prescription: The language of urban design, urban analysis, urban history, contemporary theory, international and local practice, allied disciplines, cities in the developing world and pacific urbanism.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Programme restriction: MArch(Prof), MArch(Prof)UrbDes, MUrbDes, MUrbPlan(Prof), MUrbPlan(Prof)UrbDes
- Points: 15
URBDES 705 - Emerging Paradigms
- Course prescription: Urban morphology and exploring contemporary urban design issues and paradigms.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Programme restriction: MUrbDes, MUrbPlan(Prof)UrbDes
- Points: 15
URBDES 710 - Urban Design Studio 1
- Course prescription: Studio-based investigation to develop critical skills and judgments on urban design principles and concepts ranging from street/block to urban design at a strategic scale.
- Semester availability: Semester One
- Programme restriction: MArch(Prof)UrbDes, MUrbDes, MUrbPlan(Prof)UrbDes
- Points: 30
URBDES 720 - Urban Design Studio 2
- Course prescription: An advanced urban design project involving highly specialised research related to the analysis and design of the built environment.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Prerequisite: URBDES 710
- Programme restriction: MArch(Prof)UrbDes, MUrbDes, MUrbPlan(Prof)UrbDes
- Points: 30
URBDES 730 - Urban Design Research Project
- Course prescription: Individual research project in an aspect of urban design theory or practice.
- Semester availability: Semester One and Two
- Programme restriction: MUrbDes
- Note: Only MUrbDes students exempt from UBRPLAN 707 and 712
- Points: 30
URBPLAN 706 - - Māori Planning Issues
- Course prescription: Māori attitudes, values and aspirations in urban planning with an understanding of the Treaty of Waitangi. Indigenous development issues.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Points: 15
URBPLAN 707 - Urban Economic Development
- Course prescription: Principles of urban economics. Economic development, urban planning strategies. Asset management and property development.
- Semester availability: Semester Two
- Points: 15