Placemaking approaches public space from a people perspective, based on community needs and programming. As a ''placemaker,'' you'll understand the role that community building, economics, sustainability, management, urban design, and landscape design play in creating and maintaining successful public spaces. The Master of Science (MS) in Urban Placemaking and Management (UPM) prepares professionals for this rapidly growing field. Students learn to create successful, vibrant, equitable, and economically viable public spaces using a bottom-up, community-driven, people-centric approach. The program is for students with professionally oriented undergraduate education, professional degrees, or professional experience in architecture, engineering, environmental or landscape design, urban planning, and related studies, as well as students with a background in geography, social sciences, and management. Students are immersed in the core skills of analysis, conceptual design, and management of the public realm in cities.<br><br>The 40-credit program equips students to qualify for employment in a range of institutional, governmental, nonprofit, and private-sector settings. Students gain a broad theoretical knowledge of the historical, political, and social frameworks with which to conceptualize the public realm, while developing skills to analyze urban space and under­stand the relationship of public space to public policy and private development. Through studios and internships, students further gain practical understanding of the planning and design of public space, including management and the integration of the principles of sustainability into public space development.