Urban Design

Urban design is an interdisciplinary field which aims to offer solutions for the general aspects of urbanism. This will in turn result in elevating ecological conditions and beautifying urban spaces and places. Urban design has been generally recognized with the visual and functional organization of human housings; however, its main objective is to obtain professional knowledge and technical skills in the following fields:

      · Organizing urban structure and its main constituent elements

      · Structural design of urban development in different scales

      · Designing based on fundamentals, principles and forming standards of cities

      · Enhancing the quality of urban environments

      · Considering the challenges of globalization and remaining localized

      · Making urban spaces habitable

      · Creating places having public and popular identities

      · Considering sustainability in designing urban spaces

MA. Urban Design Syllabus