School of Urban Planning

Welcome!

The School draws students from around the world. Through our core Master of Urban Planning degree and an optional concentration in Transportation Planning, we train professionals for the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors in two years of intensive study, much of which takes place in real-life group projects using the Montréal metropolitan region as a living laboratory. Our aim is to give individuals the intellectual and practical skills needed to excel in the field and thereby to improve human settlements around the world.

The School welcomes a new professor in economic aspects of urban planning

The School of Urban Planning is pleased to announce that Professor Richard Shearmur joined our core full-time faculty effective August 2013. Professor Shearmur, who has had a distiguished career as an academic with INRS UCS, currently focuses on the Geography of innovation, Local impacts of innovation, High-order services (KIBS), Intra-metropolitan economy, Regional development factors and policies, Applied methods of spatial analysis, and Statistical concepts and measures. He will boost our research and teaching activities in the areas of urban and regional economics, with a focus on metropolitan dynamics, the spatial distribution of innovation, mobility, and real-estate issues.  

Award of Excellence

The School is pleased to announce that Ms Gladys Chan, our Student Affairs Coordinator, has received an Award of Excellence from the Faculty of Engineering.  Please join us in congratulating Gladys on this important distinction.

Admissions

The application deadline for the upcoming academic year (beginning in September 2013) was the 15th of January 2013. If you have applied, please see the Admissions page for updates on the final steps to be taken by current applicants with respect to technical problems we have been experiencing with the online application system.