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NB This specialism is no longer on offer after the 2023/24 academic year.
This City and Urban Environment specialism offers a world-class education to future engineers and town planners by providing the skills necessary to address environmental and health issues in the context of sustainable urban development, in research and in urban design. The programme is designed to provide scientific theoretical knowledge and tools necessary to understand and address the environmental physical problems resulting from the ever increasing urban population. Various key disciplines such as urban microclimatology, wind and ventilation in urban areas, human ecology of urban spaces, sunlight and illumination are taught through advanced lectures and research work in laboratories renowned in these fields. The programme of study lasts two academic years - denoted by M1 and M2 and is taught in English. It comprises three study semesters followed by a paid Master's thesis / internship in the final semester. Our Master's programmes in City and Urban Environment are fully accredited by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
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30 ECTS Credits per semester. Language of instruction: English
* 'French as Foreign Language' except for French native speakers who will study 'Cultural and Communicational English' or Spanish (depending on sufficient demand). NB Course content may be subject to minor changes
* 'French as Foreign Language' except for French native speakers who will study 'Cultural and Communicational English' or Spanish (depending on sufficient demand). NB Course content may be subject to minor changes.
NB Internships undertaken in France are strictly regulated and are only open to current full-time students of an accredited educational institution. Interns are entitled to all the rights guaranteed to regular employees (such as social protection and redress mechanisms). For internships that exceed two months in duration a minimum level of remuneration is set by the government, at approximately €600 per month. In some professional branches, this amount may be higher.
In addition to the above specialism-specific skills, students will also develop more general skills:
This City and Urban Environment programme is taught by faculty at Centrale Nantes and at ensa Nantes (School of Architecture).
CORAULIS at ensa Nantes - Observation centre in augmented reality and sound immersion site
Virtual reality immersion is destined to be one of the major knowledge vectors of tomorrow. It offers numerous possibilities for exploring the sensitive dimensions of past, present and future architectural and urban projects, and for taking up the challenge of innovative and participative approaches to design, training and creation, in situ, at a distance and in a network.
In this context, CORAULIS offers a new mode of representation of the city to architects, urban planners, researchers, teachers, students and artists: it is adapted to research on the sensory experience in built environments, techniques of visualization and analysis of urban projects, etc. The platform lends itself to all the research and developments that deal with experience in virtual environments and is also an innovative training tool.
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Pascal Joanne, M2 Programme Supervisor AAU
Pascal Joanne is a qualified architect with a PhD in engineering sciences, (architecture option). He is a lecturer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes. His research work in the Crenau research centre focuses on the restitution of the sound ambiences of remarkable spaces and architecture, in particular Cistercian buildings of the Middle Ages.
Laurent Perret, M1 Programme Supervisor City and Urban Environment
Laurent Perret is an associate professor in the Department of Fluid Mechanics and Energetics at Centrale Nantes. He is mainly involved in courses on fluid mechanics, micro-meteorology, turbulence and experimental methods. His research activities at the LHEEA lab focus on the study and modeling of the interactions between the lower atmosphere and urban surfaces.
Isabelle Calmet, Programme Supervisor City and Urban Environment
Isabelle Calmet is a professor in the Department of Fluid Mechanics and Energetics. Her research in the LHEEA Lab focuses on the multi-scale modeling of atmospheric boundary layer flows, the study of urban microclimate and the characterization of dynamic and thermodynamic interactions between urban or coastal surfaces and the atmosphere.