The program explores how technology can help planners, architects, and others make cities more environmentally and socially sustainable.
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will begin offering a one-year master of urban technology degree program, the first degree of its kind that can be completed in one year at a U.S. university.
According to an article in The Michigan Daily by Sonia Alizadeh, the program expands on the school's four-year bachelor's urban technology program, which explores how to make cities more environmentally and socially sustainable through technology and urban design. The master's program emphasizes the business, digital, and professional aspects of urban technology.
The program's faculty director Bryan Boyer explained, "What [the program] does is create new types of businesses and opportunities that are not architecture or urban planning or real estate. They’re ways to think about housing or workspace and provide those or create those through totally new means."
FULL STORY: UMich to launch first one-year urban tech master’s program in the nation
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