Master's degree in urban planning and development - Planning and sustainable urban development projects course

The TP – PTS pathway is devoted to understanding territorial projects and the methods and tools that can be mobilised to design and implement them, in accordance with the principles of sustainable development and sustainability. It aims to train urban planners capable of responding to the contemporary challenges of ecological transition and the changes underway in professional practices.

Introducing new dimensions (climate change, sustainability, territorial transition, ZANs, etc.), as well as the recomposition of legal provisions, the course thus integrates the changes in practices around the issue of sustainability in a cross-disciplinary manner in order to train urban planning and development professionals capable of intervening in territories of varying density, vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Students from multiple disciplinary backgrounds who demonstrate an open-minded approach to the vulnerability of territories.

The urban planning and development major is designed over two years: entry to M2 is by priority after obtaining an M1 in Urban Planning and Development.

It is possible to apply for direct entry to M2 after obtaining an M1 in another discipline, after examining the equivalence of courses.

The student must have an M1 in urban planning or any other compatible M1 after examining the equivalence of the courses.

It is recommended that you have followed courses on the dynamics of cities and territories and the challenges of sustainable development; that you have a command of cartographic tools; that you have experience of territorial diagnosis.

The three initial training courses (PTS, HAPRU, PAUE) are based on a major common core designed to provide the fundamental knowledge and know-how of urban planning and development, from a dual perspective of theoretical contributions and operational and practical approaches.

Based on this common core, specialisation takes place within teaching and exercises specific to the pathway.

The year is divided into two semesters, the second of which is largely devoted to the end-of-studies placement.

• FDSP, Marseille

The course is based on the work and expertise developed over many years by the teacher-researchers at LIEU (the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Environnement Urbanisme). Students receive training in research as part of a compulsory dissertation at the end of their studies.

The skills acquired by students on the STP course concern :

- understanding the specificities of planning in the context of climate change (reducing urban heat islands, energy transition and sobriety, etc.),

• the'analysis of transition prospects for vulnerable territories (coastal and mountain areas in particular) at different scales and in varied territorial contexts,

• knowledge of tools and projects for sustainable territories (park charters, country contracts, labels and projects for sustainable territories, etc.),

• mastery of representation tools (cartographic, schematic...),

• the acquisition of the codes of written and oral communication.

The diploma requires the completion of a final dissertation and a supervised work placement in a professional environment.

Supervised work of various kinds (long workshop, workshop...) punctuates the entire yearà the common core or the course.