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Future Cities
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Syllabus
- Explore the city as the most complex human-made “organism” with a metabolism that can be modeled in terms of stocks and flows
- Explore the origins, state-of-the-art and applications of Information Architecture and simulation
- Provide the basis to understand, shape, plan, design, build, manage and continually adapt a city
- Learn about data-driven approaches for the development of the future city, based on crowdsourcing and sensing
- Learn about the latest research for the development and management of future cities
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Instructors
Gerhard Schmitt
Professor of Information Architecture
ETH Zurich
Dirk Hebel
Assistant Professor, Architecture and Construction
ETH Future Cities Lab
Reinhard König
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer
ETH Zurich
Bernhard Klein
Senior Researcher
ETH Future Cities Lab
Marcel Brülisauer
ETH Chair of Economics
ETH Future Cities Lab
Chen Zhong
Postdoctoral Fellow
ETH Future Cities Lab
Estefania Tapias
Postdoctoral fellow and Lecturer, Chair of Information Architecture
ETH Zurich
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