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Smart Cities
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- 10 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Understand the concept of smart cities, why these are still prototypes and what the challenges are.
- Identify the principle of stocks and flows of information in cities at different scales.
- Understand the concept of citizen design science and its importance for responsive cities.
- Understand the concept of complexity science in the context of architecture and city planning.
- Learn through citizen design science how you can interact and get involved in the planning of your own cities.
- Articulate what a responsive city is, and identify the criteria for a city to be responsive.
Prerequisite
Instructors
Gerhard Schmitt
Professor of Information Architecture
ETH Zurich
Estefania Tapias
Postdoctoral fellow and Lecturer, Chair of Information Architecture
ETH Zurich
Christoph Hölscher
Professor, Cognitive Science
ETH Zurich
Dirk Helbing
Professor, Computational Social Science
ETH Zurich
Bige Tunçer
Associate Professor
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Markus Schläpfer
Lead, Urban Complexity Project
ETH Future Cities Lab
Matthias Standfest
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chair of Information Architecture
ETH Zurich
Renate Schubert
Professor for Economics
ETH Zurich
Kevin Schawinski
Professor of galaxy and black hole astrophysics
ETH Zurich
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