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Co-Creating Sustainable Cities
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 8 Sequences
- Advanced Level
Course details
Syllabus
Module 1: Background Knowlegde for Co-Creating Sustainable Cities
Module 2: Water & Water Waste: Water as a Basic Need
Module 3: Energy and Air 1: Living with the Haze
Module 4: Energy & Air 2: Citizens Co-Creating Cleaner Air
Module 5: Urban Food & Green: The Use of Urban Spaces
Module 6: Energy & Air 3: Creating Smart Energy & Mobility
Module 7: Urban Water: Dry Feet for Citizens
Module 8: Synthesus: The Dynamics of Co-Creation
Prerequisite
The prerequisites are a bachelors/ undergraduate level on:
- Governance and environmental policy
- Urban resource management
- Urban environmental technology
Instructors
Gert Spaargaren
Professor Environmental Policy for Sustainable Lifestyles and Consumption
Wageningen University & Research
Ellen van Bueren
Professor at TU Delft. Researcher at AMS
Deft University of Technology
Co-creating sustainable cities – Course contributors
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Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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