Design and Urban Ecologies MS

Program Highlights

• New Approaches to Urban Practice

  Integrate aspects of architecture, urban design, urban planning, and landscape architecture in new ways by forefronting issues of sociospatial and environmental justice.

• Change for Urban Communities

  Apply designing as a methodology through which to explore and combat social, economic, political, and environmental injustices in urban ecosystems.

• NYC Immersion

  Use New York and other world cities as living laboratories to gain an understanding of the forces that influence the processes of urban decline, restructuring, and development.

• Community Collaboration

  Devise design strategies and infrastructures that lead to social and spatial transformation, working alongside and within the communities directly affected.

• Critical Engagement

  Use innovative methodologies to confront and engage with globalization, deindustrialization, migration, climate change, and shifts in urban policy and governance.

• Applicant Profile

  This interdisciplinary program attracts students from diverse backgrounds, including the humanities and social sciences, law, architecture, communication design, and environmental studies.