
Master's Degree in Landscape and Urbanism
Valencia, Spain
DURATION
18 Months
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The Master's Degree in Landscape and Urban Planning focuses its training content on an integrated vision of urban planning and landscape. This option is fully supported by the recent evolution of both disciplines, characterized by a growing confluence and fusion between the two: in today's world, there is no urban planning without landscape, nor landscape without urban planning.
Landscaping, from its traditional dimension associated with horticulture and gardening, has acquired an architectural-urban dimension, which places it within the sphere of design disciplines. Current urban planning, for its part, has integrated the landscape as a structural element in all instruments and at all scales, from the design of public space to the urban project, and from the urban project to urban and territorial planning, through the concept of Green Infrastructure.
This fusion between urban planning and landscape is also already incorporated into urban planning regulations (in the Valencian Community, the Land Use, Urban Planning and Landscape Law of 2021), as well as into the urban agendas derived from the SDGs.
Objectives of the title
The Master's Degree in Landscape and Urban Planning has a professional orientation. Its main objective is to provide students with specialized training in urban planning and landscape, which will enable them to carry out tasks related to these disciplines.
Specialised training in urban planning and landscape is particularly relevant in relation to the challenges of today's world, such as those associated with the climate crisis, social inequality, economic restructuring and the development of new technologies. The specialised training proposed for the Master's Degree is aligned with the new strategies that have been launched at international, state, regional and local levels to respond to these challenges, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and in particular SDG 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities, and the different Urban Agendas. The Master's Degree provides a specialised postgraduate offering in line with these objectives, which enables the training of professionals capable of facing with technical competence the challenges posed by the city, the territory and the landscape in today's world, in an increasingly urban society.
Mainly aimed at
The master's degree is aimed primarily at students in possession of the following undergraduate qualifications:
- Degree in Architecture / Fundamentals of Architecture
- Degree in Civil Engineering
- Degree in Landscape Architecture / Landscaping
- Degree in Technical Architecture
- Degree in Engineering in Geomatics and Topography
- Other undergraduate degrees with sufficient urban planning and landscape content after their curriculum has been assessed by the Master's Academic Committee.
Likewise, students with Master's level qualifications corresponding to the degrees indicated may be admitted:
- Máster Universitario en Arquitectura
- Máster Universitario en Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos
- Máster Universitario en Edificación
Admissions
Curriculum
The Master's Degree in Landscape and Urban Planning consists of 90 ECTS credits, of which 9 correspond to the Master's Final Project.
The Master's degree consists of 90 credits, of which: Mandatory: 54 ects, Optional: 27 ects (*), TFM: 9 ects.
Within the Elective category, students may take up to a maximum of 13.5 credits of curricular external internships.
Module 1: Fundamentals of urban planning and landscape. (6 ECTS)
- SUBJECT: Landscape, urban planning and sustainability: bases and principles. (6 ects)
Module 2: Instruments for intervention in the city, the territory and the landscape. (34.5 ects)
- SUBJECT: Strategic, territorial and urban planning. (15 ects)
- SUBJECT: Urban design and open space design. (19.5 ECTS)
Module 3: Management tools. (6 ECTS)
- SUBJECT: Urban and landscape management. (6 ECTS)
Module 4: Tools and techniques. (4.5 ECTS)
- SUBJECT: Digital tools and techniques for urban planning and landscape. (4.5 ECTS)
Module 5: Optional. (27 ects)
- SUBJECT: Introductory elective (9 ECTS)
- SUBJECT: Specific optionality. (18 ects)
In this subject, a maximum of 13.5 ECTS credits can be awarded for curricular external internships. (The curriculum includes a maximum of 13.5 ECTS credits for curricular external internships).
Module 6: Master's Final Project (12 ECTS)
- SUBJECT: TFM Laboratory. (3 ECTS)
- SUBJECT: Master's Thesis. (9 ECTS)