The urban design program emphasizes sustainable strategies for the neighborhood, city and mega-city. Students consider historical patterns of urban settlement and form-making, contemporary forces impacting cities worldwide, and the legal and financial framework of urban development.
At SCAD, lectures, seminars and studios provide a broad range of tools for consensus seeking, place making, landscape urbanism, urban preservation, economic strategies and emerging technologies. Students examine infrastructure, landscape, building density, site adaptation and remediation, and water in the urban environment through the lens of emerging sustainable urban design practices utilized throughout the world.
Students learn the perspectives of global urban design, taking into account cultural and geophysical indices of urban form. At SCAD, students and faculty collaborate to address international issues in cities on all continents.
At SCAD, lectures, seminars and studios provide a broad range of tools for consensus seeking, place making, landscape urbanism, urban preservation, economic strategies and emerging technologies. Students examine infrastructure, landscape, building density, site adaptation and remediation, and water in the urban environment through the lens of emerging sustainable urban design practices utilized throughout the world.
Students learn the perspectives of global urban design, taking into account cultural and geophysical indices of urban form. At SCAD, students and faculty collaborate to address international issues in cities on all continents.
The city of Savannah has one of the world’s most admired urban plans, spanning vast architectural periods and providing an inspiring context for the study of urban design.
SCAD offers the Master of Urban Design degree for students with an undergraduate degree in architecture or a related design discipline. The postprofessional Master of Architecture Degree with an emphasis in urban design (see architecture section of this catalog) offers advanced design study, independent work and critical thinking in a global context for students who have completed an accredited professional degree in architecture or its equivalent.
