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Master of City Planning

Program overview

This program has been suspended from September 2023.  There are no further intakes of students planned.  The following information is retained for students currently enrolled in the program.

The majority of the world’s population now lives in urban areas: Currently, 55 per cent of the world’s 7.9 billion people live in cities and that proportion is expected to rise to 68 per cent by 2050. 
 
City planning is, without doubt, a career for the future. And there is nowhere better to study it than in the ‘living laboratory’ of Australia’s fastest growing city: the Gold Coast. 
 
Bond University’s Master of City Planning is designed to produce practice-oriented urban planners and urban designers who will take a leading role in creating sustainable cities and regions. 
 
In what has been dubbed ‘the urban century’, the need for strategic planning of cities to meet the challenges of urban management, sustainability and climate change is a fundamental issue for governments, corporations, and community organisations worldwide. Our curriculum includes a focus on climate change adaptation and resilience, city economics, the core principles of place-making and an understanding of First Nations cultures.

Program code: SD-93040

CRICOS code: 0101288

Program overview

This program has been suspended from September 2023.  There are no further intakes of students planned.  The following information is retained for students currently enrolled in the program.

The majority of the world’s population now lives in urban areas: Currently, 55 per cent of the world’s 7.9 billion people live in cities and that proportion is expected to rise to 68 per cent by 2050. 
 
City planning is, without doubt, a career for the future. And there is nowhere better to study it than in the ‘living laboratory’ of Australia’s fastest growing city: the Gold Coast. 
 
Bond University’s Master of City Planning is designed to produce practice-oriented urban planners and urban designers who will take a leading role in creating sustainable cities and regions. 
 
In what has been dubbed ‘the urban century’, the need for strategic planning of cities to meet the challenges of urban management, sustainability and climate change is a fundamental issue for governments, corporations, and community organisations worldwide. Our curriculum includes a focus on climate change adaptation and resilience, city economics, the core principles of place-making and an understanding of First Nations cultures.

Program code: SD-93040

CRICOS code: 0101288

The Faculty of Society and Design

About this program

The Master of City Planning program aims to produce innovative practice-oriented graduates with the capacity to play a leading role in creating sustainable cities and regions.  This program is designed to equip students for rewarding professional work planning for 21st century global-local challenges including rapid urbanisation, climate change, resource constraints, globalisation and technological disruption.  With its distinctive interdisciplinary urban design orientation, the program will cultivate city planners and urban designers with the global perspective, knowledge, skills and adaptability to make a significant contribution to addressing these challenges.

What you'll be studying

  • Study overview

    Bond’s course structure offers a mix of theoretical and practical subjects and has been designed in close consultation with prominent industry advisory boards to ensure the integrity and contemporary relevance of the degree. Taking a study load of three subjects per semester, you can complete the full master’s qualification in just 1 year 4 months, four semesters, with Bond’s accelerated timetable. 

    Intakes are offered in January, May or September. This overview is based on a January start date.

Inherent requirements

Inherent requirements are the essential abilities, knowledge and skills required to successfully complete the program. Learn more about the inherent requirements and make an informed decision about your capacity to undertake the program.

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Program features

  • Recognised and reputable

    Bond University’s Master of City Planning is accredited by the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) and is recognised internationally by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

  • Unrivalled access

    You’ll be based in our dedicated Built Environment precinct where we are redefining the urban areas of tomorrow and developing the most advanced sustainable development practices. The precinct encompasses the Abedian School of Architecture, the international award-winning Sustainable Development building, the Fabrication and Robotics Laboratories and the new Society and Design building opened in 2020.

  • Learn by doing

    We have a strong focus on experiential learning, which means you will work on practical studio-based projects on campus and on real-world jobsites under the direction of industry professionals and stakeholders. Many projects make use of the beautiful urban and regional setting of the Gold Coast to explore solutions to urban challenges faced by cities around the world.

  • Build your network

    You will come to understand the ‘big picture’ through our strong links with industry partners. At regular industry events hosted by the Faculty and the Bond Built Environment Student Association, you’ll meet industry operators and potential employers; and in the Built Environment precinct, you be working alongside future colleagues working in allied fields such as property development, architecture, and project management.

  • Build your postgraduate

    Bond offers an articulated suite of graduate certificate to graduate diploma qualifications that allow you to build up to a full Master of City Planning degree.

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Hear from our Bondies

  • This program has complemented my professional career as an environmental engineer. My experience studying at Bond has been enriching - thanks to the development of the methodology based on the analysis of projects and real cases with the support of professors with extensive experience in the sector who provide us with tools to develop critical analyses and generate innovative solutions. Their experiences have helped me to understand how I am going to use the theory in practice.  

    Mayra Avila - Master of City Planning
  • Discipline Lead and Associate Professor

    "I was attracted to Bond because the Gold Coast is the perfect location to pursue my teaching and research interests in the transformation of coastal tourism areas into sustainable cities and city regions.  I have been able to weave these interests into my teaching, including projects on walkable and bikeable cities, transit-supportive urban design and development, and enriching place identity through creative responses to distinctive cultural landscapes."

    Dr Daniel O'Hare - Urban Planning
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Hear from our Bondies

  • Discipline Lead and Associate Professor

    "I was attracted to Bond because the Gold Coast is the perfect location to pursue my teaching and research interests in the transformation of coastal tourism areas into sustainable cities and city regions.  I have been able to weave these interests into my teaching, including projects on walkable and bikeable cities, transit-supportive urban design and development, and enriching place identity through creative responses to distinctive cultural landscapes."

    Dr Daniel O'Hare - Urban Planning
  • This program has complemented my professional career as an environmental engineer. My experience studying at Bond has been enriching - thanks to the development of the methodology based on the analysis of projects and real cases with the support of professors with extensive experience in the sector who provide us with tools to develop critical analyses and generate innovative solutions. Their experiences have helped me to understand how I am going to use the theory in practice.  

    Mayra Avila - Master of City Planning
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