Master's degree in Urban Planning and Development - Transition of metropolises and cooperation in the Mediterranean

The TP – HAPRU course trains students to understand urban and territorial issues and the urban planning project through the prism of housing and urban renewal, which call for specific practice and know-how.

The aim is to grasp the decisive role of housing in the social integration of households, in the composition of the city and the balanced functioning of territories, in urban renewal dictated by the imperative of ecological transition and zero net artificialisation.

Housing is thus at the heart of the major projects undertaken by the public authorities, calling for changes in practices and constant adjustment of the framework for intervention and governance.

The course also pays particular attention to the diversity of situations and project scales: from housing to public spaces, from regeneration to urban renewal, from central areas to suburban and rural areas via suburbs, from the island to the metropolis via the district.

Students from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds who demonstrate an open-minded approach to the social dimension of urban planning through the issues of the right to housing, housing and the city and how they are taken into account by public action.

The Urban Planning and Development major is a two-year programme: entry to M2 is by priority after obtaining an M1 in Urban Planning and Development. It is possible to apply for direct entry into M2 after obtaining an M1 in another discipline, after examination of the equivalence of the 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 good command of cartographic tools; that you have experience of territorial diagnosis.

The three initial training courses (HAPRU, PTS, PAUE) are based on a major common core aimed at providing 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-study 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 research training as part of a compulsory dissertation at the end of their studies

The skills acquired by students on the HAPRU course concern :

• the analysis of the plurality of urban and territorial contexts in terms of housing (studies and diagnosis) ;

• l'élaboration des politiques publiques de l'habitat et de la ville (documents de programmation, planification et urban planning) ;

• mastery of the various tools, approaches, procedures for housing and urban renewal projects ;

• 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.