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The Master of Science in Urban Planning is a two-year accredited professional degree. Our program takes a comparative, global perspective to urban planning, centering social justice and critical practice. It connects the study of the urban built environment with grounded analysis of socioeconomic and political conditions to inform planning practice and praxis toward social, racial, and climate justice. We prepare students to confront and break down structures and practices of oppression rooted in class inequality, racism, and sexism. By studying the impact of global processes (such as immigration, climate change, and public health) on cities, neighborhoods, and communities—across the Global North and Global South—the program aims to foster new, creative planning and policy approaches that will improve processes and outcomes in cities around the world.

The program pays close attention to a range of methodological approaches bringing together urban analytics, grounded field research, and community engagement to address real-world planning issues. It builds on our record as one of the first planning programs in the United States to engage data science and visualization alongside spatial analysis to tackle today’s urban problems and inform planning solutions for the future. Our graduates work in critical and leading roles in government, private firms, nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups, multilateral institutions, and international NGOs.

People

Weiping Wu, Professor and Program Director
Douglas Woodward, Associate Director, Professional Development and Practice
Kian Goldman, Assistant Director

IMPORTANT LINKS AND INFORMATION

For more information about the program, please email the Assistant Director: Kian Goldman.

Curriculum

The Master of Science in Urban Planning program offers five distinctive clusters: Built Environment, Climate Adaptation, Community and Economic Development, International Planning and Development, and Urban Analytics. At the core of the program are a team-based studio course, which takes place in the first year, and a thesis or professional capstone, which is carried out throughout the second year. The Urban Planning Studio is a way of modeling what it means to incorporate intellectual questions into practical proposals. The studio revolves around a real client with a real-world issue. Students work as a group under the direction of faculty, producing critical and innovative analysis of socioeconomic, environmental, and political conditions as well as stakeholder engagement. In many ways, the studio introduces, considers, and evaluates a range of scenarios in approaching complex problems.

Recently, the program has significantly updated the contents of its electives and core curriculum courses to introduce more knowledge related to the global dimensions of planning, more systematic understanding of racism and spatial inequality, and more critical assessment on the use of analytical tools. For electives, in particular, the program now offers new, knowledge- and skill-based courses on data analytics, machine learning, equitable climate action, adaptation to climate change, urban mobility and accessibility in a global context, inclusion and housing, and healthy global cities. Students can also take case-based practicums, grounded in a coherent conceptual framework, to better connect with modes of practice.

Studios

In the Urban Planning studio, under faculty direction students work as a team with a client on a real-world project. The ensuing deliverables will reflect stakeholder engagement and analyses of socioeconomic, environmental, and political conditions. We encourage students to engage in critical thinking in order to challenge practices of oppression in planning and beyond. Recognizing the wide-ranging student interests, we offer a variety of projects each year, including community-focused issues that provide opportunities to build relations with clients and partners. Studio takes place in the Spring of the students’ first year and aims to integrate classroom learning with practical experience early in the students’ education.

Current Faculty

Jitendra Bajpai

M.S. Urban Planning

Matthew Bauer

M.S. Urban Planning

Robert Beauregard

M.S. Urban Planning, Ph.D. in Urban Planning

Anthony Borelli

M.S. Urban Planning

Hiba Bou Akar

M.S. Urban Planning, Ph.D. in Urban Planning

Alanna Browdy

M.S. Urban Planning

Calvin Brown

M.S. Urban Planning

André Corrêa d'Almeida

M.S. Urban Planning

Kate Dunham

M.S. Urban Planning

Evan Easterbrooks-Dick

M.S. Urban Planning

Adam Freed

M.S. Urban Planning

Ebru Gencer

M.S. Urban Planning

David Gilford

M.S. Urban Planning

Amelia Guise

M.S. Urban Planning

Jessica Katz

M.S. Urban Planning

Gayatri Kawlra

M.S. Urban Planning

Abdullah Khawarzad

M.S. Urban Planning

Emily Kurtz

M.S. Urban Planning

Javier Lopez

M.S. Urban Planning

Peter Marcotullio

M.S. Urban Planning

Jonathan Martin

M.S. Urban Planning

Jessica Mathew

M.S. Urban Planning

Kevin McQueen

M.S. Urban Planning

Jon Meyers

M.S. Urban Planning

Kristin Miller

M.S. Urban Planning

Regina Myer

M.S. Urban Planning

Thaddeus Pawlowski

M.S. Architecture and Urban Design, M.S. Urban Planning, Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes

Michael Perles

M.S. Urban Planning

James Piacentini

M.S. Urban Planning

Clarence Radin

M.S. Urban Planning

Kaz Sakamoto

M.S. Urban Planning

Hugo Sarmiento

M.S. Urban Planning, Ph.D. in Urban Planning

Elliott Sclar

M.S. Urban Planning, Ph.D. in Urban Planning

Jeffrey Shumaker

M.S. Urban Planning

Tom Slater

M.S. Urban Planning, Ph.D. in Urban Planning

Howard Slatkin

M.S. Urban Planning

Kurt Steinhouse

M.S. Urban Planning

Charlie Stewart

M.S. Urban Planning

Jonathan Stiles

M.S. Urban Planning

Dory Thrasher

M.S. Urban Planning

Emily Tolbert

M.S. Urban Planning

Jamie Torres-Springer

M.S. Urban Planning

Graham Trelstad

M.S. Urban Planning

Jose Luis Vallejo

M.S. Urban Planning

Anthony Vanky

M.S. Urban Planning

Sybil Wa

M.S. Urban Planning

Rachel Weinberger

M.S. Urban Planning

Kate Wittels

M.S. Urban Planning

Douglas Woodward

M.S. Urban Planning

Thomas Wright

M.S. Urban Planning

Weiping Wu

M.S. Urban Planning, Ph.D. in Urban Planning

Timothy Yoshimura Small

M.S. Urban Planning

Fall 2025 Courses

Course Semester Title Student Work Instructor Syllabus Requirements & Sequence Location & Time Session & Points Call No.
PLAN4008‑1 Fall 2025
History and Theory of Planning
 Hiba Bou Akar
209 Fayerweather + 114 Avery, 203 Fayerweather, 204 Fayerweather
TH 10 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10754
PLAN4022‑1 Fall 2025
Fundamentals of Urban Digital Design
 Sybil Wa
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
TH 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10755
PLAN4050‑1 Fall 2025
UP Elective Internship
 Douglas Woodward

With approval only via application
NA
NA
Full Semester
1.5 Points
 10762
PLAN4208‑1 Fall 2025
Planning Methods
 Abdullah Khawarzad
209 Fayerweather + 202 Fayerweather, 204 Fayerweather
W 3 PM - 5 PM (Recitations: W 7 PM - 8 PM, TH 2 PM - 3 PM, TH 3 PM - 4 PM)
Full Semester
3 Points
 10766
PLAN4320‑1 Fall 2025
Urban Design For Planners
 Jeffrey Shumaker
409 Avery
W 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10767
PLAN4577‑1 Fall 2025
Geographic Information Systems
 Jonathan Stiles

UP Only
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
TU 10 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10768
PLAN4577‑2 Fall 2025
Geographic Information Systems
 Jonathan Stiles

UP Only
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
TH 5 PM - 8 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10769
PLAN6003‑1 Fall 2025
Genesis and Development of Zoning
 Douglas Woodward, Regina Myer
204 Fayerweather
TU 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10771
PLAN6088‑1 Fall 2025
Introduction to International Planning
 Ebru Gencer
204 Fayerweather
M 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10776
PLAN6121‑1 Fall 2025
Practicum: Residential Planning in Global Cities
 Kate Dunham
204 Fayerweather
M 3 PM - 5 PM
Session A
1.5 Points
 13598
PLAN6328‑1 Fall 2025
Site Planning & Support Systems
 Graham Trelstad
412 Avery
TH 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 17799
PLAN6434‑1 Fall 2025
Introduction to Transportation Planning
 Rachel Weinberger
204 Fayerweather
TH 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10784
PLAN6612‑1 Fall 2025
Planning for Justice in a Low Carbon Future
 Javier Lopez
408 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10784
PLAN6642‑1 Fall 2025
Metropolitan Planning
 Thomas Wright
204 Fayerweather
W 5 PM - 7 PM
Session A
1.5 Points
 10798
PLAN6646‑1 Fall 2025
Affordable Housing Development in NYC
 Kristin Miller, Evan Easterbrooks-Dick
300 Buell North
TU 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10799
PLAN6918‑1 Fall 2025
Thesis/Capstone I Workshop
 Matthew Bauer, Emily Tolbert, Alanna Browdy, Dory Thrasher

UP Only
209 Fayerweather [Breakout Rooms: 11 AM - 1 PM (203, 204, 209 FAY, 504 Avery), 3 PM - 5 PM (203, 204 FAY), 5 PM - 7 PM (209 FAY)
W 11 AM - 1PM, 3 PM - 5 PM or 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10800
PLAN6942‑1 Fall 2025
Community Development Finance Practicum
 Kevin McQueen
204 Fayerweather
M 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10805
PLAN6946‑1 Fall 2025
Housing the Unhoused: A Practicum
 Jessica Katz
204 Fayerweather
W 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10806
ARCH6767‑1 Fall 2025
Preservation Planning and Policy
 Erica Avrami
505 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10744
PLAN6009‑1 Fall 2025
Environmental Data Analysis
 Peter Marcotullio, Kaz Sakamoto
412 Avery
M 3 PM - 5 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10775
PLAN6619‑1 Fall 2025
Introduction to Urban Data and Informatics
 Timothy Small
UP Computer Lab (202 Fayerweather)
M 5 PM - 7 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10793
PLAN6925‑1 Fall 2025
Advanced Research I
 Weiping Wu
NA
By Appointment
Full Semester
2 or 3 Points
 10802
ARCH6965‑1 Fall 2025
Advanced Studio V – Clinic
 Imani Jacqueline Brown

ALL GSAPP
700 Avery
TH 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10602
ARCH4341‑1 Fall 2025
Traditional American Architecture
 Andrew Dolkart
209 Fayerweather
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10737
ARCH4385‑1 Fall 2025
Arab Modernism(s): Experiments in Housing, 1945-present
 Yasser Elsheshtawy
200 Buell North
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 19935
ARCH4388‑1 Fall 2025
(Re) Inventing Living: Modern Experiments in Latin American Housing
 Luis E. Carranza
114 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10651
ARCH4427‑1 Fall 2025
Architecture Apropos Art
 Steven Holl, Dimitra Tsachrelia
412 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10665
ARCH4441‑1 Fall 2025
Interlaced Existence: Death, Life, Liminality
 Karla Rothstein
200 Buell North
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10666
ARCH4442‑1 Fall 2025
If Buildings Had DNA
 Christoph Kumpusch
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TU 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 16429
ARCH4469‑1 Fall 2025
The History of Architecture Theory
 Mark Wigley
114 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10652
ARCH4597‑1 Fall 2025
Extreme Design
 Mark Wigley
412 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10653
ARCH4625‑1 Fall 2025
Tensile/Compression Surfaces in Architecture: Tactile Methods for Architects
 Robert Marino
409 Avery
TU 2 PM - 4 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10685
ARCH4715‑1 Fall 2025
Re-Thinking BIM
 Joseph Brennan
409 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10673
ARCH4845‑1 Fall 2025
Generative Design I
Danil Nagy
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TU 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10681
ARCH4866‑1 Fall 2025
Modernism + The Vernacular
 Mary McLeod
409 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10654
ARCH4874‑1 Fall 2025
Construction Ecologies in the Anthropocene
Tommy Schaperkotter
409 Avery
M 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10699
ARCH4892‑1 Fall 2025
Data Visualization for Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities
 Jia Zhang
409 Avery
F 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10675
ARCH4894‑1 Fall 2025
Spatial UX
 Violet Whitney
115 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10676
ARCH4987‑1 Fall 2025
Architectural Photography: From the Models to the Built World
 Michael Vahrenwald
115 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10670
ARCH4988‑1 Fall 2025
Coding for Spatial Practices
 Celeste Layne
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TU 7 PM - 9 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10677
ARCH6510‑1 Fall 2025
Neighborhood Preservation and Zoning
 Carol Clark
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Session B
1.5 Points
 10742
ARCH6682‑1 Fall 2025
Subject+Object
 Suchi Reddy
300 Buell South
F 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10708
ARCH6756‑1 Fall 2025
Make
 Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano
Ware Lounge (600 Avery)
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10671
ARCH6768‑1 Fall 2025
Conservation of Architectural Metals
 Richard Pieper
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
M 10 AM - 1 PM
Session A
1.5 Points
 10745
ARCH6801‑1 Fall 2025
Structural Daring & The Sublime In Pre-Modern Architecture
 Rory O'Neill
412 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10657
ARCH6830‑1 Fall 2025
Difference and Design
 Justin Moore

All GSAPP
412 Avery/ Online
TU 4 PM - 6 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10439
ARCH6917‑1 Fall 2025
Seed Bombs: Technologies in Ecological Design
 Emily Bauer
115 Avery
TU 11 AM - 3 PM
Session A
3 Points
 10710
ARCH6921‑1 Fall 2025
AI for Existing Buildings
 Kivanc Kose
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
W 6 PM - 8 PM
Session B
1.5 Points
 13583
ARCH6930‑1 Fall 2025
Women, Gender + Modern Architecture
 Mary McLeod
408 Avery
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10663
ARCH6934‑1 Fall 2025
Traditional Building Technology
 Tim Michiels
Preservation Technology Lab (655 Schermerhorn)
TH 9 AM - 11:30 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10748
ARCH6938‑1 Fall 2025
Rendering Systems
 Seth Thompson
300 Buell North
TU 7 PM - 9 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10678
ARCH6939‑1 Fall 2025
GIS for Design Practices
 Dare Brawley, Mario Giampieri Syllabus
408 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10680
ARCH6941‑1 Fall 2025
Architectural Acoustical Ecology
 Ethan Bourdeau
408 Avery
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10705
ARCH6942‑1 Fall 2025
Daylight, Metabolism
 Elliot Glassman
200 Buell North
TH 7 PM - 9 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10706
ARCH6953‑1 Fall 2025
Invis-abilities: Enhancing Accessibility in Design for Mind and Body
 Zarina Farmer-George
203 Fayerweather
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 13590
ARCH6962‑1 Fall 2025
Environment, Built: Episodes from an Elemental History of Architecture
 Enrique Ramírez
408 Avery
W 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 14757
ARCH6964‑1 Fall 2025
Information Richness: Architecture, Media, Politics
 Amelyn Ng
408 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 13851
ARCH6967‑1 Fall 2025
Cities of Knowledge: Orientalizing Manhattan
 Ziad Jamaleddine
934 Schermerhorn
TU 2:10 PM - 4 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10662
ARCH6988‑1 Fall 2025
Fortifications and Other Infrastructures of the British Empire
 Hannah Kaemmer
409 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 18407
ARCH6814‑1 Fall 2025
New Towns After Smart Cities
 David Smiley

All GSAPP
412 Avery
TU 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10475
ARCH6840‑1 Fall 2025
Archives of Toxicity
 Mark Wasiuta
300 Buell South
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10658
ARCH6861‑1 Fall 2025
Environments of Governance
 Felicity Scott
300 Buell South
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10659
ARCH6927‑1 Fall 2025
Architecture, Technology & the Environment
 Albena Yaneva

All GSAPP
412 Avery
M 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 13599
ARCH6929‑1 Fall 2025
The Reimagining of Lower Manhattan Post-Sandy
 Michael Kimmelman

All GSAPP
408 Avery
TU 9 AM - 11 AM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10600
PLAN6272‑1 Fall 2025
New York Rising: How Real Estate Shapes a City
 Kate Ascher

ALL GSAPP
114 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10438
PLCE4444‑1 Fall 2025
The Future City: Transforming Urban Infrastructure
 Kate Ascher, Andrew Smyth

All University
113 Avery
TU 1 PM - 3 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
 10890
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Introduction to Columbia’s Urban Planning Program

Lectures in Planning Series (LiPS)

LiPS
Tom Slater, Joe Schaffers
April 2, 2024

Student Work

Rio de Janeiro Data Transparency Dashboard

Video produced by as part of the Fall 2021 Urban Analytics and Human-Centered Decision Making course led by André Corrêa d'Almeida.

News

Sep 29
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Faculty Weiping Wu speaks in The Century of Cities Podcast, “Weiping Wu: How China’s Cities Shape the World’s Urban Future”
Apr 9
Faculty Thaddeus Pawlowski leads "Resilience by Design: Building Future-Ready Cities Today" a session at the South Summit in Brazil
Mar 17
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Faculty Hiba Bou Akar co-organized and moderated "Art in Times of War: Threading Spaces of Displacement, Exile and Genocide," for her residency at The Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination
Feb 18
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Faculty Hugo Sarmiento writes "A Double Displacement: Climate Resettlements and Bogota’s Desplazados," for Journal of Planning Education and Research, on the futures of fair urban planning
Jan 23
Faculty Hugo Sarmiento publishes new article, "A Double Displacement: Climate Resettlements and Bogota's Desplazados" in the Journal of Planning Education and Research
Jan 1
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Nasozi Kakembo '08 MSUP shares design advice in Columbia Magazine article, "How to Revamp Your Home in 2025"
Dec 18, 2024
Faculty Weiping Wu delivers keynote speech at the Forum on People-Centerd Urban Governance, Beijing
Dec 10, 2024
Sonal Shah '08 MSUP presents policy brief, "WE2: Path Forward to Increase Women's Useand Uptake of Electric Two-wheelers in India" at the Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Manila
Dec 8, 2024
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Andrew Cronson '24 MSUP featured in NYT's "Streetscape" for efforts to preserve modernist sculptural mural in former Pfizer world HQ
Dec 2, 2024
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Gizem Karagoz ’22 M.Arch MSUP, Senior Project Manager, New York City Economic Development, is among the 21 Columbians on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list
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Dual Degree Programs

Dual Degrees within GSAPP

M.S. in Urban Planning and Master of Architecture

M.S. in Urban Planning and M.S. in Historic Preservation

M.S. in Urban Planning and M.S. in Real Estate Development

M.S. in Urban Planning and M.S. Computational Design Practices

Dual Degrees with other schools at Columbia

M.S. in Urban Planning and Business

M.S. in Urban Planning and International Affairs

M.S. in Urban Planning and Law

M.S. in Urban Planning and Social Work

M.S. in Urban Planning and Public Health

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