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Gianluca Agostinelli has compiled a diverse, interdisciplinary list of twenty recently launched undergraduate degrees for students to consider during the 2022-2023 application period. Check out our ninth program feature below.
Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Cities, Regions, Planning – York University (Toronto, Ontario)
In Cities, Regions, Planning, students learn to apply inclusive and sustainable planning interventions, consulting skills, governance and political procedures, and activist tools to manage urban growth (and decline), provide infrastructure, integrate newcomers, and mitigate environmental impacts. The Cities, Regions, Planning program examines how cities and regions may be planned in more just and sustainable ways through three thematic concentrations:
- Urban Worlds – which engages with different ways of being in cities around the planet to consider how urban residents live, work, and play in a rapidly changing global geography of interconnected urban places.
- Urban Planning and Politics – which deals with the institutions, actors, struggles, and processes that help create and govern communities, cities, regions, and urban networks.
- Urban Political Ecology – which focuses on the role of nature and environment in the process of urbanization, urban form, and urban life.
Taught by internationally recognized urban scholars and planning practitioners, students acquire the foundational knowledge, critical thinking, and technical skills to create tangible change in urban, suburban, and regional environments. Students engage with communities in Toronto, across Canada, and abroad gaining hands-on experiences in the processes of urban transformations, community-based initiatives, and design and policy challenges.
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