A sense of place, community, and urban design are core to anyone’s experience of living in a city. This course explores how community engagement can be key to building more sustainable cities.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
The majority of the world’s population lives in the cities of low- and middle-income countries, often referred to as the Global South. The course explores the rapid growth of such cities, and their place in a sustainable urban future.
Overview The Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Sustainable Urban Development is a part-time doctoral programme that provides outstanding students with an opportunity to pursue in-depth and rigorous research about the pressing challenges of urban sustainability and the processes of environmental, economic, and social development in urban environments around the world. Students admitted to the programme… Continue reading DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development
Address the urgent challenges we face to make our cities more liveable, just and sustainable in a challenging global environment, through our part-time master's programme – for working professionals worldwide.
Delve into historic urban landscapes, mastering spatial analysis techniques in this 2-day course. Uncover layers of history and culture, enriching your professional skill set. Learn how the layout of cities helps to shape movement, interaction and trade.
Create Streets share their extensive knowledge on urban greening strategies. This course will cover the latest research and evidence on the contribution greenery makes to the urban environment, and how to put this into good practice.
Join our experts to understand the role of colonialism in shaping contemporary cities. Critically examine how colonial logics in urban development can reinforce spatial inequalities, dispossession and exclusion, and how we can ‘counterplot’ against them.
This course provides a grounding in urban studies and sustainable development, bringing together current knowledge and best practices to explore how cities and everyday urban living might be readied for future challenges and opportunities