MASTER’S PROGRAM IN CITY MANAGEMENT

This theoretical subject teaches students how to analyze communication processes to forge relationships with internal and external urban stakeholders, as well as for agenda organization. It also addresses the communication management processes and legal participation instruments such as participatory budgets, accountability, coordination councils, public hearings, among others.

This theoretical subject teaches students how to analyze different mechanisms and opportunities for conflict resolution and dialogue spaces among stakeholders, as well as the organizational ethics processes. It also addresses different methodologies to foster neighbors’ engagement in the elaboration, management, and evaluation of public policies and identification of conflict of interests in public management.

This theoretical subject teaches students how to analyze sustainable mobility policies—focused on citizens—to reduce time, distance and costs when designing a city. It also addresses transport-oriented development, urban mobility models and modalities, mass public transportation systems, and international experiences on urban mobility.

This theoretical subject teaches students how to analyze sustainable urban energy policies to reduce costs when designing a city in harmony with a sustainable environment whilst mitigating the effects of climate change. It also addresses sustainable energy policies, energy transition, and renewables techs and systems.

This theoretical subject teaches students how to generate groundbreaking strategies, through an urban analysis, to govern future actions in the urban policy field. It also addresses the identification and diagnosis process of an intervention area or Urban Management Unit, the vision and strategies, as well the urban intervention proposal that will serve for the thesis project.

This theoretical subject teaches students how to evaluate the social and economic feasibility of municipal investment projects framed in the National Public Investment System of Peru. It also addresses the public investment cycle, problem identification and diagnosis, possible solutions, service market analysis, technical analysis, project costs, social evaluation, sustainability analysis, project financing, and logical framework matrix.

This theoretical subject teaches students how to plan public project management, with special focus on procurement and contracting framed in good international management practices. It also addresses project management processes, scope management, schedule management, cost management, project risk management, and procurement management. For the latter, different types of contract are reviewed such as collaborative agreement, G2G contracts, as well as national and international case studies.

This theoretical subject teaches students how to analyze the role of an adequate provision of public services and infrastructure, in order to achieve a sustainable urban development, as well as the routes for both financing and operations through public, private, and mixed investment project management. It also addresses management tools, emblematic cases of private-public partnerships, asset projects, works for taxes, among others, in connection with the Peruvian regulatory and institutional frameworks.

This theoretical subject teaches students how to assess the ways in which disruptive technologies can exponentially improve planning, design, and management of contemporary cities for a more resilient future. It also addresses innovation topics such as data science, artificial intelligence, IoT, and blockchain technology in the context of urban management. This is a cross-cutting subject because it is applied to different topics such as mobility, housing, energy, water and urban waste systems, citizen security, governance, among others, which are conceived as intelligent and integrated systems.

This theoretical subject teaches students how to elaborate a specific urban development project within the urban intervention area or Urban Management Unit (defined in Workshop 1), through deliverables of management and implementation. It also addresses the project management processes applied to the final thesis.