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MSc/Graduate
Diploma in Urban Regeneration The Urban Task Force Report: A New Professional Challenge The report of Lord Rogers' Urban Task Force, published in June 1999, lays down a massive challenge to every urban professional in Britain. It highlights the decay and deterioration of our cities. It presents a blueprint for their planned renaissance. But the challenge is greater even than this. For it is not merely to restore and rebuild the physical fabric: it is to provide a new urban economic base to replace the one that has been lost, to recreate communities that have been shattered, to provide the education and training that alone can give the children of the cities new life and new hope. It is a massive task. And our urban professionals, even the very best of them, are not equipped to meet it. It will need a new kind of education, a different kind of hands-on multi-professional training, in a new kind of professional school. The Rogers report calls for new regional Centres of Excellence to meet this challenge. At the Bartlett School of Planning, we believe this task is too important and too urgent to wait for government action. This is why we have created our new MSc Programme in Urban Regeneration. This MSc programme is not a soft option. We are looking for top-quality students, especially those with existing professional qualifications, who want to re-tool for the urban renaissance challenge.
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