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Do you want to design a better world – one that’s healthier, more vibrant, sustainable, and equitable? Our new Bachelor of Design in City Innovation (BDCI) degree gives you the tools and skills necessary to create positive change in the built environment and address complex issues affecting cities. Â
The BDCI offers a design-based framework for thinking about the world, its challenges, and to create inclusive and sustainable city-focused solutions. Hands-on, studio-based courses that tackle real-world projects, cross-cultural learning opportunities, and classes in advanced digital design tools, data science, entrepreneurship and sustainability, provides  a broader perspective and spark innovation for the betterment of communities and society.
If you’re interested in becoming an architect, planner, landscape architect, or want to pursue another city-building related career in business, law, public policy, social work or entrepreneurship, the BDCI is for you!
Students pursue the following pathways through the degree, depending on their interests:
Design studios and technical skill-building courses in architecture, planning, and landscape architecture; Global citizenship courses with topics such as Indigenous design thinking, social justice, history of cities, and design theory; Visualization in two and three dimensions; Introductions to Data Science, Sustainability, and Entrepreneurship; and an exciting suite of elective options where students can finetune the degree to their exact needs. Options include completing a Minor program in Urban Studies, Health and Society, Management and Society, or Data Science.
The wide-reaching inputs to city building (physical, social, political, economic, historical) must be studied so that together our city can emerge as a leader in the world of urban design. This is the program that can expand design thinking in our province.
Kate Thompson
President and CEO, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation
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