King's College London, MSc, Sustainable Cities

2 core modules underpin the Master's: Changing cities and understanding and managing the urban environmental system; both are based on lectures, seminars and fieldwork and form the core theoretical components; changing cities evaluates the political and policy challenges in seeking to create sustainable cities and explores theories and ideas relating to sustainable urbanism; urban environmental systems explores the knowledge for understanding urban biophysical systems and developing sustainable environmental management strategies for cities; methods for environmental research and research methods in human geography provide the core methodological environmental and social science components respectively; students can choose both methods modules or opt for the 1 that best suits their interests; core modules give a solid basis for developing and executing a piece of focused research presented in the form of a dissertation, (also a compulsory element of the Master's); 2 optional modules are offered as part of the Master's so that programme participants have the opportunity to fine-tune their programme in accordance with their interests; optional modules include: urban regeneration; sustainable urbanisation; techniques for managing environmental change; monitoring environmental change; environmental GIS and environmental internship.