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Sustainable Future Cities
Short course
In Bedfordshire ()
Price on request
Description
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Type
Short course
The “Future of cities” project from Government Office of Science and Technology indicates that sustainable human well-being delivery being focussed in urban areas, and this will be an important policy thread running across government departments.
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Subjects
- Systems
- Government
Course programme
What you will learn
Who should attend
On successful completion of this course you will gain:
- Comprehension of the growing opportunity of urbanisation from multiple perspectives
- Knowledge of the current developments in understanding Human, Social, Financial, Built, and Natural Capitals in the urban environment
- Understanding of how contemporary methods of assessing the status of urban condition are carried out and their limitations
- Awareness of the tools available to support decision making for improving the sustainability of urban systems (of systems)
- Realisation of the role of residents, workers and transient communities as active participants in the co-evolution of city systems and in shaping city valorisation
- Insight into the conceptual frameworks and current work aimed at integrating management of grey-green-blue infrastructure in urban systems
- Alertness to the iterative, dynamic nature of cities, their identity and attractiveness in a mobility population
- Awareness of aspirational targets for future cities, such as low emission, smart and resilient systems.
Who should attend
- Planning Consultants
- Developers
- Investors and Local Government Planners
- Regeneration
- Sustainability Officers
Sustainable Future Cities
Price on request