F6006 Master of Urban Design
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Master of Urban Design (F6006) is a 2 years full-time, 96-credit-point, master's degree (coursework) course from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, taught at Indonesia. Map your units semester by semester with the MonMap planner.
- Credit points
- 96
- Duration
- 2 years full time
- 4 years part time
- Campus
- Indonesia
- On campus
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2026 entry.
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Overview
Complex urban challenges require design, development and planning professionals who are skilled, creative and entrepreneurial.
The Master of Urban Design at Monash Indonesia equips you with the expertise to shape and contribute to the future of urban life, grounded in an ethos of evidence-informed creativity and augmented through an interwoven curriculum.
Future Urban Life
As urbanisation transforms our world, this degree explores how ‘urban life’ permeates cities and beyond, transforming neighbourhoods, towns and regions. It fosters design that addresses the impacts of - climate change, resource depletion, uneven development - and helps improve the quality of life for diverse human and non-human communities.
You will design across multiple scales and typologies: inclusive neighbourhoods, vertical innovation hubs, 15-minute towns, cyber-physical places, historic quarters, smart mobility networks, amphibious waterfronts, sponge cities, and agropolitan bioregions.
Evidence-Informed Creativity
The degree is grounded in an ethos of evidence-informed creativity, combining rigorous analysis, imagination and real-world engagement.
This ethos prepares you to engage with the pulse of urban life - sensing, documenting, analysing, and interpreting its complexities to drive your creative work. Advanced digital tools - such as data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) - are harnessed to empower your design practice.
Collaborating with city-makers in government, industry, civil society, and local communities, you will create innovative and informed visions for urban life in Jakarta, Indonesia, Asia and beyond.
Interwoven Curriculum
Our curriculum combines three essential approaches to form a cohesive learning experience:
- Theory-practice integration: Connecting ideas and actions through diverse media - writing, drawing, three-dimensional modelling, and cartography - within interactive formats such as seminars, studios, and exhibitions.
- Immersive learning: Combining campus-based education with empirical fieldwork, international studies, and hybrid in-person and virtual collaboration.
- Research-driven inquiry: Developing analytical capacities, critical thinking, and a transdisciplinary outlook as the foundation for leadership and lifelong learning.
Flexible study options
The Master of Urban Design may be taken full time or part time, with units delivered via a combination of face to face and online modes.
You may leave after Part A with a Graduate Certificate in Urban Design or after Parts A and B with a Graduate Diploma in Urban Design. Graduates of the complete Master of Urban Design will be equipped with the conceptual, creative and technical skills to develop integrative solutions to the complex urban challenges resulting from climate change, environmental degradation and development inequalities.
Course structure
Part A. Foundation24 credit points
Part B. Exploration24 credit points
Part C. Integration24 credit points
Part D. Research24 credit points
The handbook's description of this structure
The course comprises studios, undertaken in project mode and in collaboration with local government agencies, and supporting theory units that provide knowledge of urban planning and design contexts, regulations and techniques, including mapping tools, AI and data analytics.
The course is structured in four parts: Part A. Foundation (24 points), Part B. Exploration (24 points), Part C. Integration (24 points) and Part D. Research (24 points).
Part A. Foundation
Foundation builds essential creative and practical design skills. The studio-based units establish core design principles and practices, while the complementary theory units introduce key disciplinary frameworks. One focuses on the complex social and structural elements of urban life, and another examines ecological considerations within urban settings. Together, these provide critical thinking skills and contextual awareness, preparing students to design effectively within diverse social and environmental contexts.
Part B. Exploration
Exploration focuses on climate sustainability, resilience, and technological transformation. The studios tackle specific issues such as urban density and congestion, tropical urban environments, the integration of smart technologies, and active mobility. These studio units are supported by two theory units: smart city technologies and governance and development.
Part C. Integration
In this part of the course, the studios integrate issues at the city-wide scale, such as transit, energy, water and waste systems, while integrating knowledge accumulated from previous terms at smaller scales. Elective units provide a further opportunity for students to specialise in an area of their particular interest, integrating these endeavours into their learning journey.
Part D. Research
The course culminates with an urban design thesis. Undertaken in design-by-research mode, it consolidates advanced concepts, knowledge, and skills to tackle complex urban design issues across scales—from neighbourhood to town, city, and regions, as well as offering students the opportunity to focus on a topic of their choosing. Units offering opportunities to conduct fieldwork and sharpen interdisciplinary spatial reasoning provide the foundation and orientation for the thesis.
Master's entry points
Depending on prior qualifications you may receive entry level credit (a form of block credit) which determines your point of entry to the course:
- If you are admitted at entry level 1 you complete 96 credit points, comprising Part A, Part B, Part C and Part D
- If you are admitted at entry level 2 you complete 72 credit points, comprising Part B, Part C and Part D
- If you are admitted at entry level 3 you complete 48 credit points, comprising Part C and Part D
Note: If you are eligible for credit for prior studies you may elect not to receive the credit and complete one of the higher credit-point options.
Course progression map
The course progression map provides guidance on unit enrolment for each teaching period.
The course comprises 96 points structured in four parts: Part A. Foundation (24 points), Part B. Exploration (24 points), Part C. Integration (24 points) and Part D. Research (24 points).
You must complete four 24 points semesters, which can be taken flexibly.
Units are 6 points unless otherwise stated.
Part A. Foundation (24 points)
You must complete:
- UDI5501 Urban design studio 1A: Design actions
- UDI5601 Fabric for urban life
- UDI5502 Urban design studio 1B: Neighbourhood
- UDI5602 City and ecology
Part B. Exploration (24 points)
You must complete:
- UDI5503 Urban design studio 2A: Town
- UDI5603 Smart city technologies
- UDI5504 Urban design studio 2B: Town
- UDI5604 Governance and development
Part C. Integration (24 points)
You must complete:
- UDI5505 Urban design studio 3A: City (or other equivalent unit at Monash Australia as approved by faculty)
- UDI5506 Urban design studio 3B: City (or other equivalent unit at Monash Australia as approved by faculty)
- Two 6 credit points of electives at level 5 from other programs across Monash campuses as approved by faculty
Part D. Research (24 points)
You must complete:
- UDI5507 Fieldwork for design
- UDI5605 Urban spatial reasoning
- UDI5508 Urban design thesis (12 points)
Learning outcomes
These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework and Monash Graduate Attributes.
Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that you will be able to:
- 1
Integrate knowledge and skills to translate high level urban design and development strategies into city-based spatial plans, from a perspective of environmental systems and climate resilience;
- 2
Collaborate and communicate effectively in multi-disciplinary teams and undertake stakeholder engagement to incorporate multiple perspectives into urban design and development solutions;
- 3
Evaluate and apply data-driven analysis using data science platforms applicable to urban design and development processes;
- 4
Critically reflect on and apply research and practice skills essential for urban design and planning in Indonesia's public, private, and civil society contexts, as well as globally, while upholding and practising ethical approaches to contemporary urban design;
- 5
Critically assess Indonesian urban design discourses and practices in diverse contexts, applying interdisciplinary methods, as well as urban planning and development regulations, to contribute to advancing urban design, planning and development practices and knowledge;
- 6
Understand and apply the rules of occupational health and safety appropriate to the unit of study.
Entry requirements
English language
Monash Level A, that is: IELTS (Academic): 6.5 overall (no band lower than 6.0); or Pearson Test of English (Academic): score of 58 overall with no band lower than 50; or TOEFL Internet-based test: score of 79 overall with minimum scores: Writing: 21, Listening: 12, Reading: 13 and Speaking: 18; or Equivalent approved English test
Pathways
Graduate Diploma of Urban Design (F5002)
Graduate Certificate of Urban Design (F4003)
More information
Progression to further studies
Successful completion of this course may provide a pathway to the Master of Urban Planning and Design (F6004) or to the Master of Architecture (F6001) or a graduate research degree subject to satisfying the appropriate entry requirements.
Other information
Complex urban challenges require design, development and planning professionals who are skilled, creative and entrepreneurial.
The Master of Urban Design at Monash Indonesia equips you with the expertise to shape and contribute to the future of urban life, grounded in an ethos of evidence-informed creativity and augmented through an interwoven curriculum.
Future Urban Life
As urbanisation transforms our world, this degree explores how ‘urban life’ permeates cities and beyond, transforming neighbourhoods, towns and regions. It fosters design that addresses the impacts of - climate change, resource depletion, uneven development - and helps improve the quality of life for diverse human and non-human communities.
You will design across multiple scales and typologies: inclusive neighbourhoods, vertical innovation hubs, 15-minute towns, cyber-physical places, historic quarters, smart mobility networks, amphibious waterfronts, sponge cities, and agropolitan bioregions.
Evidence-Informed Creativity
The degree is grounded in an ethos of evidence-informed creativity, combining rigorous analysis, imagination and real-world engagement.
This ethos prepares you to engage with the pulse of urban life - sensing, documenting, analysing, and interpreting its complexities to drive your creative work. Advanced digital tools - such as data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) - are harnessed to empower your design practice.
Collaborating with city-makers in government, industry, civil society, and local communities, you will create innovative and informed visions for urban life in Jakarta, Indonesia, Asia and beyond.
Interwoven Curriculum
Our curriculum combines three essential approaches to form a cohesive learning experience:
- Theory-practice integration: Connecting ideas and actions through diverse media - writing, drawing, three-dimensional modelling, and cartography - within interactive formats such as seminars, studios, and exhibitions.
- Immersive learning: Combining campus-based education with empirical fieldwork, international studies, and hybrid in-person and virtual collaboration.
- Research-driven inquiry: Developing analytical capacities, critical thinking, and a transdisciplinary outlook as the foundation for leadership and lifelong learning.
Flexible study options
The Master of Urban Design may be taken full time or part time, with units delivered via a combination of face to face and online modes.
You may leave after Part A with a Graduate Certificate in Urban Design or after Parts A and B with a Graduate Diploma in Urban Design. Graduates of the complete Master of Urban Design will be equipped with the conceptual, creative and technical skills to develop integrative solutions to the complex urban challenges resulting from climate change, environmental degradation and development inequalities.
Common questions
How long is Master of Urban Design?
2 years full time, 96 credit points. At 24 credit points a semester, that is 4 semesters of full-time study.
Where can I study Master of Urban Design?
At Indonesia.
How do I plan my Master of Urban Design units?
Open the course in the MonMap planner. It lays out your semesters, checks prerequisites as you drag units in, and tracks the credit points each requirement still needs.