本专业探讨了其他国家（尤其是第三世界）的城市化动态。该专业的学生探索新兴工业化国家和东欧新独立国家中的规划，城市空间结构，历史保护和城市设计挑战，以及地区和国家内部以及地区和国家之间的政治，社会，文化和经济状况影响计划的制定，设计和实施。在拟博士学位内 该计划将特别强调社会，文化和经济状况与改善城市生活质量之间的关系。城市和区域规划与设计博士学位是一项39个学分的课程，旨在培养学生在城市规划，建筑，历史保护，景观建筑或房地产开发等系的大学任教。该计划将使毕业生有资格进行研究，并参与公共，私营和非营利部门的
The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation offers a Doctoral Program, the Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning and Design. Participating programs include Urban Studies and Planning, Architecture, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, and The National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education. The program prepares students to teach at the university level in departments of Urban Planning, Architecture, Historic Preservation, Real Estate Development, or Landscape Architecture, as well as qualifies graduates to conduct research and participate in high-level decision-making in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Intimate and highly competitive, the Ph.D. program offers students a tailored Ph.D. experience and the flexibility to bridge a number of disciplines related to the built environment, including urban planning, design, historic preservation, and real-estate development. Our nationally renowned faculty, the affiliated National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, and proximity to the architecturally rich, historically significant, and diverse urban fabric of the Mid-Atlantic region make the University of Maryland an exciting place to study urban planning, design, and historic preservation. This specialization explores the urbanization dynamics in other countries, particularly the third world. Students in this specialization explore planning, urban spatial structure, historic preservation, and urban design challenges in the newly industrializing countries and the newly independent states of Eastern Europe, and how the political, social, cultural, and economic conditions within and among regions and countries affect the development, design and implementation of plans. Within the proposed Ph.D. program there will be special emphasis on the relationship between social, cultural, and economic conditions and improving the quality of urban life.