Urban Design, MUD

Arizona State University - Kaplan International

The Master of Urban Design at The Design School is a transdisciplinary post-professional graduate program that provides students with actionable knowledge of urban design and enables students to lead urban transformations for community and urban resilience. Students study and apply newly emerging design knowledge from architecture, landscape architecture, creative placemaking and keeping, urban planning, community development, civil engineering and real estate development. Students also draw from critical works in non-design disciplines including climate science, social justice, sustainability science, urban ecology, urban climate, natural resources management, environmental psychology, anthropology, arts, histories, smart city, laws and systems theory. The MUD offers a 12-month curriculum built around the analysis and understanding of the dynamic urban systems specific to rapidly urbanizing regions of the world. The program leverages the Phoenix metro area as a learning laboratory through a number of challenges - the rapidly expanding metropolis, the scarcity of water resources, the extreme heat and climatic conditions, and the area's unique ecological and cultural diversity - in the development of responsible global initiatives and innovative design strategies for urban environments.

Arizona State University, Main campus