• MIP students acquire the skills and expertise to tackle critical urban challenges.
  • Students develop planning and design proposals that actively seek to transform urban conditions by making cities more equitable, sustainable and beautiful.
  • Projects range in scale from the design of discrete physical interventions, to the restructuring of urban districts, to the reimagining of mega-regions.
  • During the first semester, program participants engage in design projects aimed at improving local urban conditions in the New York metropolitan region, whereas the second semester is dedicated to inventing new urban design paradigms in international settings.
  • The program focuses on innovative urban design and planning practice that is informed by in-depth local analysis and global understanding of large-scale forces at work in city-making and urbanization.