Cities are the biggest challenge we face today. They are the point of convergence for flows, where these concentrate and are organised. Flows of commodities and services, of information and cultures, of immigrant populations and tourists, of capital and business, of occupying forces and cooperating NGOs. Cities are the condensation of globalisation, its opportunities and its aberrations, its inclusions and its exclusions, its universalism and its multiculturalism, the standardisation of supply and demand and the identitarian reactions that this process incites.
For all of the above, urbanism, understood in the widest sense of the word to mean social utopia, programmed and future planning, legal regulation of the present, has become a discipline that needs to regain its original integrating ability without overlooking the diversification of professional practices and knowledge of the present.
The management of cities today falls under the scope of political powers, organised citizenship and a range of professionals: architects, engineers, geographers, sociologists, ecologists, landscape architects, designers, legal experts, economists, artists, communicators, political scientists, cultural managers, etc. However, there is no combining of knowledge without a common basic language and there is no integration of practices without the habit of shared management. This course attempts to stimulate the production of knowledge and cross-cutting learning processes in order to produce behavioural guidelines and common languages that will serve throughout the professional experience of students.
At the end of this Master's, students should be able to work in public or private multidisciplinary teams organised to analyse, plan and manage the issues related to the complex reality of today's urban regions.
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Price
4.595 euros
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