MSc in Urban Design and Conservation

Urban Design and Conservation is concerned with the building of a civilized city in continuity with its past heritage. It is also concerned with public and the community services like safe streets for people, squares for community to gather and place for children or elderly to play rest and get together. Traditional cities of Kathmandu Valley and other countries are a testimony of harmonious townscape with enough community and urban spaces in the form of streets, squares, ponds and temple complexes. The places were also theatres where all kinds of cultural activities sometimes in the form of drama and festival were played. In order to conserve our past heritage and develop our cities in broader perspective, the college launched the Postgraduate Department of Urban Design and Conservation. The faculty staffs including the visiting faculties bring together the existing knowledge in the field , do research works in collaboration with students and other relevant agencies and propose solutions to the key issues of urban design and conservation.

The main goal of this Master’s degree Program is to prepare higher level professionals and academics with the social development needs of the time that is characterized by community, culture, ecology and sustainability, and who can also equally involve at interregional and international cooperation.