• Urban & Regional Studies (URS) delves into the physical, social, economic and political factors that shape our cities.
  • It looks at the role of planning to manage dynamic forces of change such as immigration, global warming, aging populations, energy conservation, congestion, urban forests, homelessness and smog, to name just a few.
  • Issues include the evolving social, ethnic and architectural character of urban neighbourhoods, the decline of agricultural service centres in the west or the governance of urban sprawl.
  • It is a thesis program.