School of Urban Planning

Welcome!

The School draws students from around the world. Through our core Master of Urban Planning degree program 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.

Official launch of a new concentration:
Urban Development and Urban Design

The School is delighted to confirm that it will offer an exciting new concentration within its professionally-accredited M.U.P. degree program. As of the Winter 2018 academic term, students may formally specialise in Urban Development and Urban Design. Please see the details under Academic Programs.

Fall 2017 Brenda and Samuel Gewurz Lecture in Urban Design

On the 2nd of November, the School welcomed Kalen Anderson (Director of Planning Coordination in the City Planning Department at City of Edmonton and M.U.P. alumna) for a public lecture entitled Unpacking Urban Development and Design.

The School in the media

Media attention is being drawn to an important new report that was prepared by McGill's UPGo researchers (Prof. David Wachsmuth, Danielle Kerrigan, David Chaney, and Andrea Shillolo) on the increasing commercialization of short-term rentals (such as AirBnB) in Canada and what cities should do about it.

Student Supervised Research Project featured in the Montreal Gazette: St-Luc rail yards relocation could earn CP half-billion dollars: Libman

Prof. Ahmed El-Geneidy has been appointed for 4 years as a board member of the newly established transport planning authority for Montreal, Autorité Régionale de Transport Métropolitain (ARTM).

Charis Loong's first chapter from her Master's research project co-authored with Dea van Lierop and Ahmed El-Geneidy was recently featured in City Lab, Next City, and New York Magazine's Science of US section. Prof. El-Geneidy was interviewed by Global News and Metro News in Toronto regarding the same study.

Prof. Ahmed El-Geneidy was interviewed by Jason Magder for the Montreal Gazette regarding the new Light Rail Project (REM) proposed by CDPQ for Montreal.

Visiting Professor

Prof. Julian Agyeman PhD FRSA FRGS will be Visiting Professor, School of Urban Planning for the academic year 2017-2018.

Julian is a Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. He is the originator of the concept of "just sustainabilities", the full integration of social justice and sustainability. As an ecologist/biogeographer turned environmental social scientist, he has both a science and social science background which helps frame his perspectives, research and scholarship. He thrives a the borders and intersections of a wide range of knowledges, disciplines and methodologies which he utilizes in creative and original ways in his research.

While at McGill he will be giving a public lecture, teaching a class in the Winter Term and working on a book "Immigration, Immigrants, Agriculture and Food in North America". He will also be working with The McConnell Foundation on its Cities for People and Future Cities programmes. He is happy to meet with students whose interests overlap with his. You can find out more about him on his website.

Admissions for the academic year beginning in September 2018

The deadline for applications to the M.U.P. programme for the academic year beginning in Fall 2018 has now passed (15 January 2018). New applications will only be considered for the Fall 2019 academic year; the online application system will open again in September 2018.

Individuals who submitted their applications before the January 2018 deadline will be contacted as their dossiers are processed in the coming weeks. Please be patient as we have a large volume of applications this year!

The School is pleased to announce that its Concentration in Urban Design is now being reinstated in 2018 with an exciting new lineup of courses and practice-related objectives. Please see the details under Academic Programs.