Aims
- Work on analyses, new solutions, visions and projects, which expand and convert our cities and metropolitan areas thus making them viable for the future via an interdisciplinary exchange of information
- Qualifies students for all levels of spatial planning, enabling them to work in a self-reliant manner
- Qualified to work independently and responsibly as urban planners on a scientific basis taking into account the design, technical, economical, ecological and design aspects
- Provide the students with a substantiated, in-depth specialist knowledge basis with the option of individual specializations
The Master of Science program consists of four semesters and is consecutively based on the Bachelor's degree (or comparable degrees) course.
One focus of the Master's degree program is project and design work. A quarter of the study is estimated for this work in small groups. The aim of the project work is the independent, deepening, interdisciplinary elaboration of content and "researching learning". The project contents have a problem-, practice-, process- and action-related reference to the space-relevant questions.
In addition to all the relevant subject areas of the Urban Planning, there are also individual possibilities for improvement. A wide selection of core and cavity modules is available. In addition, this individuality can be achieved by selecting the project and draft themes as well as the topic selection of the thesis.
Masterthesis concludes the course. This thesis is an independent scientific work. The Master's degree is the prerequisite for a further scientific qualification (doctorate).
This course of studies is intended to ensure that new, more market-oriented individual specializations are possible, just like the classical, comprehensive and deepening planner training.
Place of study Hamburg
Hamburg offers with its very different districts, the city’s structures, its strong network with the surrounding region, its interdependence with the region, its reach to Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, especially by trade, port and logistics, internationally oriented industrial and service companies, a strongly developed media economy and a rich cultural life diverse contact opportunities and “laboratory situations“ of spatial development.
With the development of the HafenCity and the international building exhibition in Wilhelmsburg, within the framework of the long-term strategy “Leap across the elbe“, sophisticated and innovative projects are being pursued in Hamburg. These offer particularly interesting subjects for studying in the field of urban and spatial development.
The course prepares for tasks in the area of administration, research as well as private construction, development and planning offices. The master programme provides the possibility to specialize in the following themes:
- Public planning
- Sustainable urban and regional development
- Project development and real estate management
- Urban redevelopment and neighborhood development
- Urban interventions and design
- City Marketing and Economic Promotion
- Infrastructure planning and public finances
- Digital City - new tools and forms of collaboration
- Research concepts, methods and instruments
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The HafenCity University maintains numerous contacts with universities abroad. You can find all information on the foreign study, internships, contacts and contact persons on the pages of the HCU's International Office.
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