TU Delft
Sustainable Urban Freight Transport: A Global Perspective
Theme: City Logistics
This course caters primarily to university students or professionals working in urban transport infrastructure planning or logistics management. Whether you are simply curious about the topic or you intend to develop a career in these fields, this course will give you the tools you need to understand the complexities of urban freight transport systems
Instructor(s): Lorant Tavasszy, Ron van Duin, Tharsis Teoh (TU Delft)
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Sustainable Urban Freight Transport: A Global Perspective
Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges
Theme: Sustainable Cities
In this architecture and urban planning course, academic urban planning expertise from TU Delft is used to formulate possible answers to these questions, and is applied in a range of challenging case studies from Latin America, MENA region, Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, , among others. This course offers you a new perspective to understand and analyse the urban challenges of the Global South.
Instructor(s): Roberto Rocco de Campos Pereira, Darinka Czinschke Ljubetic, Caroline Newton. Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges
Building Inclusive Cities: Tackling Urban Inequality and Segregation
Theme: Inclusive Cities
In this course, aimed at a broad range of professionals, from urban planners and architects to geographers, you will learn what the main drivers and indicators of urban inequality and segregation are, using examples from cities from all over the world. You will learn how segregation is measured, how to interpret the results of the analyses of segregation and how to relate these insights to urban design. With this knowledge, you will be able to analyze how these issues may be affecting your local environment.
Instructor(s): Maarten van Ham, Rūta Ubarevičienė, Tanja Herdt, Leo van den Burg, Birgit Hausleitner, MaartenJan Hoekstra
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Building Inclusive Cities: Tackling Urban Inequality and Segregation
Urban Design for the Public Good: Dutch Urbanism
Theme: Inclusive Cities, Sustainable Cities
This course will broaden your scope and diversify your take on the field of urban planning and design. We will focus on a unique Dutch approach and analyze how it can help those involved with urban planning and design to improve the physical environment in relation to the public good it serves, including safety, wellbeing, sustainability and even beauty.
Instructor(s): Leo van den Burg, Rients Dijkstra, Remon Rooij, Marjolein van Esch, Abdoulaye Diakite, Inge Bobbink.
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Urban Design for the Public Good: Dutch Urbanism
Managing Building Adaptation: a Sustainable Approach
Theme: Built Environment
This course first introduces you to the challenging management task of redeveloping buildings for future use. Then you will learn how different management tools can be used to convert old buildings for sustainable reuse. Prior experience with studies or jobs related to the built environment is not essential for this course, but will be a great advantage.This MOOC is especially relevant for students who are interested in Real Estate, Project Management, Urban Planning, Architecture, Construction, Engineering, and Sustainability.
Instructor(s): Erwin Heurkens, Joris Hoekstra, Martijn Vos, Hilde Remoy, Gerard van Bortel, Jelle Koolwijk, Nynke Wertenbroek, Rinze Wassenaar.
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Managing Building Adaptation: a Sustainable Approach
Circular Economy for a Sustainable Built Environment
Theme: Built Environment
The Circular Economy model offers guidelines and principles for promoting more sustainable building construction and reducing the impact on our environment. If you are interested in taking your first steps in transitioning to a more sustainable manner of construction, then this course is for you! In this course you will become familiar with circularity as a systemic, multi-disciplinary approach, concerned with the different scales, from material to product, building, city, and region.
Instructor(s): Tillmann Klein, Marcel Bilow, Arnout Sabbe, Mo Smit, Elss Leclercq, Thaleia Konstantinou, Ulf Hackauf, Alexander Wandl
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Circular Economy for a Sustainable Built Environment
Global Housing Design
Theme: Built Environment
This course uncovers how social, economic and environmental factors are interrelated in the design of housing settlements. For this, the course dives into three key aspects that anyone involved in housing design should take into consideration: time, environment, and community.
Instructor(s): Tillmann Klein, Marcel Bilow, Arnout Sabbe, Mo Smit, Elss Leclercq, Thaleia Konstantinou, Ulf Hackauf, Alexander Wandl
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Global Housing Design
Inclusive and Sustainable Cities
Theme: Sustainable Cities, Inclusive Cities
This program consists of three courses. In this program you will take part in a cross-disciplinary conversation that looks into the state of cities in the Global North and Global South. We will discuss the main challenges that urban communities worldwide are facing and examine which methods and approaches can be implemented to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG 11: "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable".
Instructor(s): Dominic Stead, Roberto Rocco de Campos Pereira, Darinka Czinschke Ljubetic
Charge: $376
MOOC: Inclusive and Sustainable Cities
Circular Building Products for a Sustainable Built Environment
Theme: Built Environment
This course is suitable for architects, product designers, managers, supply chain actors and other professionals working towards the development of future products used to create sustainable, circular buildings. The course will provide you with a theoretical framework, the terminology used in the sector and real examples of circular solutions in terms of architectural product design. It will use real world case studies and provide you with the tools to create new products and business models, and help you to fully understand the complexity of the task and are able to judge existing circular approaches. Ultimately, it will teach you how circular products are the result of systems thinking and interdisciplinary approaches and will thus help you design and develop new circular building products and processes for your organization.
Instructor(s): Tillmann Klein, Thaleia Konstantinou, Marcel Bilow, Juan Azcarate Aguerre, Olga Ioannou
Charge: €695
MOOC: Circular Building Products for a Sustainable Built Environment
Delft X WUR
Co-Creating Sustainable Cities
Theme: Sustainable Cities
In this MOOC, we zoom in on Amsterdam, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, Nairobi, Kampala and Suzhou as living labs for exploring the dynamics of co-creation for sustainable cities worldwide. We will address topics such as participative democracy and legitimacy, ICTs and big data, infrastructure and technology, and SMART technologies in daily life.
Instructor(s): Huub Rijnaards
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Co-Creating Sustainable Cities
Sustainable Urban Development
Theme: Sustainable Cities
If you are interested in the challenges of the 21st century metropolitan regions and how these can be solved from within the city and by its inhabitants, then this Sustainable Urban Development course is for you! This MOOC is all about this integration of different fields of knowledge within the metropolitan context. The course is set up in a unique matrix format that lets you pursue your line of interest along a specific metropolitan challenge or a specific theme.
Instructor(s): Arjan van Timmeren, Mariette Overschie
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Sustainable Urban Development
Nature Based Metropolitan Solutions
Theme: Sustainable Cities
This course will teach you about the design, construction, implementation and monitoring of nature-based solutions for urban ecosystems and the ecological coherence of sustainable cities. Constructing smart cities and metropolitan regions with nature-based ecosystems will secure a fair distribution of benefits from the renewed urban ecology.
Instructor(s): Arjan van Timmeren, Taneha Bacchin, Filippo Lafleur, Geert van der Meulen
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Nature Based Metropolitan Solutions
Erasmus University
Planning for Climate Change in African Cities
Theme: Sustainable Cities
The Course on Planning for Climate Change in African Cities provides the foundation for understanding cities’ exposure and sensitivity to climate change, and how cities can manage these impacts in the face of growing uncertainty. It does so by introducing the basic concepts of urban resilience and adaptation, by using illustrative case studies in different African cities.
Instructor(s): Veronica Olivotto, Stelios Grafakos
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Planning for Climate Change in African Cities
Effective Engagement of Civil Society in Development
Theme: Sustainable Development Goals
The Online Guidance will lead participants through the modules that each play a part in creating an environment in which CSOs can meaningfully and effectively contribute to implementation and monitoring of international development processes.
Instructor(s): Sanne Huesken
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Effective Engagement of Civil Society in Development
Local Economic Development
Theme: Cities
Local economic development refers to the processes by which local governments, businesses, and civil society groups get together to raise income sustainably and improve their lives in a well-defined area. It’s about creating jobs, securing livelihoods, improving infrastructure and managing local resources.
Instructor(s): Georgina Gomez, Bert Helmsing, Jan Fransen, Peter Knorringa, Ronald Wall
Charge: This is a free course
MOOC: Local Economic Development