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Sustainable Future Cities

Short course

In Bedfordshire ()

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Description

  • 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

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