The University of Michigan Center for Innovation is being built on a parking lot in Detroit. | University of Michigan / UMCI
The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will begin offering a one-year master of urban technology degree program, the first degree of its kind that can be completed in one year at a U.S. university.
According to an article in The Michigan Daily by Sonia Alizadeh, the program expands on the school’s four-year bachelor’s urban technology program, which explores how to make cities more environmentally and socially sustainable through technology and urban design. The master’s program emphasizes the business, digital, and professional aspects of urban technology…