• MA in Urban Design at the University of Toronto is offered as a 2-years program.
  • It is an on-campus program offered on a full-time basis only.
  • The Master of Urban Design (MUD) is a post-professional program that prepares architects and landscape architects for design-based research and professional practice at the urban and regional scales.
  • The MUD program is committed to designing as a primary medium of operation and research in a broad intellectual framework that includes geography, environmental studies, social sciences, media studies, economics, and engineering.
  • It aims for responsible and creative design in the context of contemporary city and region-building, with attention to new paradigms of urbanization, global economic restructuring, and information technology.
  • The program emphasizes a coherent intellectual approach that is committed to analysis and critique and seeks to become the central Canadian forum for advanced research, design innovation, scholarship, criticism, and debate in urban design.