Student work

Showcasing the diversity and interdisciplinarity of cutting-edge research projects produced by the Interdisciplinary Urban Design MRes over the past 10 years in The Bartlett School of Planning.

Two of our students, Chloe McFarlane and Richard Sobey discuss their experience of studying the MRes programme with us.

This bespoke research-based Masters programme is truly multi-disciplinary, drawing from the Bartlett’s expertise in Planning, Architecture, Development, Geography, Anthropology, and more. Upon completion, you will be well-placed to engage in further academic research (either by pursuing a PhD or by assisting and producing academic research projects), or to pursue a professional career as urban designer.

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Students from the 2020-22 cohort of the MPlan City Planning recently won funding from UCL ChangeMakers to produce a ‘MasterPlan Zine’ to reflect upon their experiences on the programme. Guided by the programme director, Dr Michael Short, Hannah Averbeck and Harrison Brewer produced a zine which explored their experiences of navigating the 2-year master’s programme as well as insights from many of the students in their cohort on city planning issues as they see them. For the inaugural issue, the editors decided to define the theme as ‘beginnings and endings’ both in homage to their departure from the course but also as a nod to the programme’s fifth birthday. The zine project will be handed over to the following 2021-23 cohort for the next edition.

This catalogue frst introduces the taught modules at the MSc in Urban Design and City Planning, illustrating them with examples of student coursework. The catalogue then presents a selection of fnal major research projects and dissertations, where students carry out in-depth explorations of a complex topic or research problem that synthesises each student’s specific interests developed throughout the year.

This year as in the last, the BSP Expo has once again taken on important role of allowing our community of students and academics to communicate with our friends and partners all over the World in spite of the restrictions imposed by the global Covid-19 pandemic and share what we have been doing in the last 12 months. We hope to show that despite the constraints and difficulties to education and research that the pandemic has posed, we are here and still producing exciting, challenging and stimulating work.