理学硕士空间规划与开发是应对使宜居，繁荣的地方面临专业挑战的理想起点。您将培养必要的核心计划知识和技能，专业判断力和专业技能，以使您能够在各种组织中工作。该课程的基础是认识到计划是在不同的，有时是不公正的社会中进行的，并且计划的目标和方法可能是辩论和斗争的主题。本课程将为您提供敏感性和能力，以就这些道德，政治和专业事务做出独立的判断。尽管它的重点是发达资本主义社会（尤其是英国/欧洲）的计划，但它对计划的理解是比较性的，所教授的技能适用于许多计划环境。
Our MSc in Spatial Planning and Development (accredited by the RTPI and RICS) is the ideal starting point for your career as a planner or surveyor and will develop and strengthen your core planning and development skills, relevant and applicable to a range of spatial scales. It will provide you with the theoretical knowledge, critical insight and practical abilities to achieve your ambitions and positively contribute to the practices and policies of planning and development, in the UK and beyond.<br><br>Planning and development is often undertaken in diverse, and sometimes unequal or unjust societies and can be the subject of debate and struggle. This is why, while acquiring the specialist skills you will need to succeed, well also help you nurture your professional judgement and be sensitive to wider ethical, political and environmental challenges. We'll empower you to question the status quo and challenge your own thinking to form and articulate independent conclusions.<br><br>Our focus is on planning and development in advanced market economies, especially the UK and Europe, but the programme's exploration of planning and development is comparative, and the skills taught are applicable in many planning contexts.