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Building Inclusive Cities Tackling Urban Inequality and Segregation

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Delft University of Technology via Edx
Certificate

Building Inclusive Cities: Tackling Urban Inequality and Segregation

With EdX’s Building Inclusive Cities online course, understand the drivers of socio-economic segregation and inequality in metropolises across the world. Learn to measure these two phenomena with analytical tools and solve the issue with smart urban design. This programme from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands belongs to the social sciences domain and tries to incorporate urban planning, landscape designing, spatial inequality, municipal aspects, etc., in one curriculum.

Building Inclusive Cities is a seven-week long, intermediate-level course that allows students to access the learning content free of cost. For better understanding, edX recommends candidates to take Rethink the City MOOC before enrolling in this course. You will learn from leading architects, urban planners, and specialists from TU Delft’s Urban Design section.

The Building Inclusive Cities online training by DelftX includes historical examples of urban designing, case studies of selected cities, and video lectures with English transcripts. Architects, urban planners, and geographers can benefit from the course, utilizing urban inequality’s insights to devise urban policy and design solutions accordingly. The learners can pursue the programme either in paid or free mode. In the paid mode, candidates will be provided a certificate of completion and unlimited access and in the free audit mode, they will be given access only for a limited period. 

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7 Weeks
Intermediate
Free
Sustainable Urban Development

Offered by

Delft University of Technology , Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen via Edx
Certificate

Sustainable Urban Development

Did you realise that cities occupy only 3% of the earth’s land area, but nearly 50% of the world’s population resides in them? Furthermore, cities cause more than 70% of global carbon emissions. For understanding how metropolitan regions, responsible for sustainability challenges and urbanisation, hold the key to resolving the issues, join the Sustainable Urban Development certification course.

The Sustainable Urban Development certification syllabus offers a trans-disciplinary, systemic, and holistic approach to combat 21st century’s sustainability challenges. The curriculum encompasses knowledge from disciplines, including urban planning, urban engineering, urban design, systems analysis, social sciences, policymaking, and entrepreneurship. The MOOC trains candidates in understanding these concepts in the metropolitan context.

Sustainable Urban Development by edX is a part of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) educational programme. The seven-week course is drafted by Wageningen University and Research and TU Delft. The introductory training from Social Sciences domain necessitates no minimum requirements about academia or profession. Besides, the course offers students a chance to explore the sustainability issues in their cities and hinterlands.

Learners are free to select anyone from the audit or the verified track to finish learning the programme. Both these tracks are self-paced and can be completed at their own pace. The verified track is paid and offers unlimited access to the materials of the course whereas on the other hand, the audit track offers free but limited course access.

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7 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Urban Planning
Sustainable Urban Freight Transport A Global Perspective

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Delft University of Technology via Edx
Certificate

Sustainable Urban Freight Transport A Global Perspective

The Sustainable Urban Freight Transport: A Global Perspective online course was developed to help you build a sustainable transport perspective. And meet the rising pressures or urbanisation for sustainable logistics practices.

The Sustainable Urban Freight Transport certification syllabus will take you on a journey through a scientific foundation of logistics all the way to how it is practised in the cities. Moreover, the course also features expert instructors who will teach you the fundamentals of a highly complex social system of the urban areas.

Furthermore, you will gain an in-depth insight into applying the instructors’ real-world experiences to real-world problems. The Sustainable Urban Freight Transport programme places relentless emphasis on rigorous evaluation, theoretical foundation, and taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the complex area of logistics.

You will also have a chance to learn from your peers about the challenges that they faced in their particular city. Lastly, you can also purchase a course completion certificate to showcase your newly acquired skills. This self-paced programme has two options to enrol; verified and audit tracks. In the verified track, the students will get unlimited access and a certificate of completion while in the free audit track, they will have access for a limited period. 

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6 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of Urban Planning

Offered by

Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia via Edx
Certificate

Built environment sustainability assessment

5 Weeks
Intermediate
Free

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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg via Edx
Certificate

What do Architects and Urban Planners do

3 Weeks
Beginner
Free

Offered by

IDB via Edx

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