MSc Health in Urban Development

A minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate subject (e.g. Planning, Architecture, Social Sciences, Geography, Health Studies, Civil Engineering) or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

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93.6% of graduates from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit were in work or further study 15 months after graduation and are working in 56 countries around the world ( HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey 2017-23 ).

Compulsory modules

• Development and Planning Dissertation
• Health, Social Justice and the City 1
• Urban Health: Practice and Reflections
• Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 1
• Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 2
• Health, Social Justice and the City 2
• Post Disaster Recovery: Policies, Practices and Alternatives
• Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities
• Housing as Urbanism: Housing Policy and the Search for Scale
• Housing Policies: Practical Dimensions and Alternative Options
• Society and Market: Private Agency for Development
• Industrialisation and Infrastructure
• Contemporary Approaches to Development Management
• Managing the City Economy
• The Political Ecology of Environmental Change
• Urban Environmental Planning and Management in Development
• Sustainable Infrastructure and Services in Development
• Food and the City
• The City and its Relations: Context, Institutions and Actors in Urban Development Planning
• Urban Development Policy, Planning and Management: Strategic Action in Theory and Practice
• Transport Equity and Urban Mobility
• Social Diversity, Inequality and Poverty
• Urbanisation and Development
• An Introduction to Public Economics and Public Policy
• Gender in Policy and Planning
• Economic Policy Evaluation Tools
• Social Policy and Citizenship
• Critical Ideas of Development: Conceptions and Realities

Optional modules

• Post Disaster Recovery: Policies, Practices and Alternatives
• Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities
• Housing as Urbanism: Housing Policy and the Search for Scale
• Housing Policies: Practical Dimensions and Alternative Options
• Society and Market: Private Agency for Development
• Industrialisation and Infrastructure
• Contemporary Approaches to Development Management
• Managing the City Economy
• The Political Ecology of Environmental Change
• Urban Environmental Planning and Management in Development
• Sustainable Infrastructure and Services in Development
• Food and the City
• The City and its Relations: Context, Institutions and Actors in Urban Development Planning
• Urban Development Policy, Planning and Management: Strategic Action in Theory and Practice
• Transport Equity and Urban Mobility
• Social Diversity, Inequality and Poverty
• Urbanisation and Development
• An Introduction to Public Economics and Public Policy
• Gender in Policy and Planning
• Economic Policy Evaluation Tools
• Social Policy and Citizenship
• Critical Ideas of Development: Conceptions and Realities