Urban Landscape Architecture with Integrated Foundation Year

Urban Landscape Architecture is the discipline concerned with the design and management of outdoor spaces in urban environments: parks, public squares, streetscapes, waterways, green corridors, and the connective tissue between buildings that shapes the experience of city life. It combines design sensibility with ecological knowledge, urban planning, and an understanding of how people use and relate to outdoor spaces. The discipline is growing in importance as cities respond to climate change, rapid urbanisation, and the evidence that access to well-designed green and public space is fundamental to health and wellbeing.

At Ravensbourne University London, this four-year full-time programme includes an integrated foundation year, making it accessible to students who are developing their design skills and portfolio before entering the main degree. You will study design principles and drawing alongside the ecology of urban environments, sustainable drainage, landscape materials, and the planning and regulatory frameworks that govern what can be built and planted in cities. The creative dimensions of landscape design, including spatial composition, planting design, and the use of water and topography, are developed alongside technical construction and project management skills.

Ravensbourne's London base gives you direct access to some of the world's most ambitious urban landscape projects.

Landscape architecture graduates work in a genuinely diverse range of settings. Landscape consultancies, architects' practices, local authorities, national parks, environmental agencies, housing developers, and infrastructure companies all employ landscape architects. The profession has a clear route to chartership through the Landscape Institute, and many graduates work toward this qualification in their early career.

Climate adaptation, biodiversity net gain, and the design of urban green infrastructure are growing areas of work. Postgraduate study in landscape architecture, urban design, or environmental planning is an option for those who want to specialise further.