MSc Cities and Sustainable Futures

Engage with the challenges facing cities around the world, from climate change to crises of urban migration, conflict, and livelihoods, and learn about different solutions that aim to create sustainable urban futures.

The urban world is transforming. Cities are being reshaped by a series of instabilities and crises. Climate change, intensifying inequalities and vulnerabilities, global migration, technological transformation, new patterns of work and living are generating a sustained period of turbulence. How can sustainable urban futures be cultivated in the midst of changes in global cities?

The MSc in Cities and Sustainable Futures addresses takes a Social Science approach to address these urgent questions by focusing on how global cities are being made and remade in relation to climate change and other challenges, different experiences of city life amid crisis, and a range of urban alternatives and experiments.  You will develop a series of research skills and gain experience of working with partners, alongside the leadership and engagement and communication skills necessary to help create sustainable cities.

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MSc course structure

The course is designed to equip students for a wide range of jobs at the intersection of cities and sustainability. Students will exit the programme understanding the forces that are shaping and remaking cities, learning from how urban residents are living with crises across different global cities, and equipped with the skills to research, evaluate, propose, communicate, and lead solutions and alternatives that help create sustainable urban futures. 

Be social. Be informed. Be a part of Durham Geography.