goals

General Objective: To train specialists with up-to-date knowledge in urban planning and studies from a comprehensive and ethical perspective, capable of critically identifying conflicts and opportunities in urban settings and addressing them through plans, programs, and projects. This program also enhances research skills and provides the necessary tools to improve the quality of life in urban environments, with a special emphasis on urban planning, management and governance; sustainability; heritage and social transformations; urban economics, real estate development, and mobility. Specific Objectives: To provide an updated theoretical framework for studying urban transformations and their relationship to institutional, economic, socio-cultural, and environmental processes. To promote the critical analysis of policies, plans, and projects to evaluate the impacts, conflicts, and opportunities of these interventions and generate new proposals. To provide theoretical and practical tools for the design, development, and evaluation of policies, plans, and projects (public, private, and civil) at the local, metropolitan, and regional levels.