Future Cities

Understand a city’s people, components, functions, scales and dynamics.

• Better understand the dynamic behavior of the urban system by going beyond the physical appearance and by focusing on representations, properties and impact factors

• Explore the city as the most complex human-made organism with a metabolism that can be modeled in terms of stocks and flows

• Learn about data-informed approaches for the development of the future city, based on crowdsourcing and sensing

• Learn about the latest research results in for the development and management of future cities

• Understand how citizens can benefit from data-informed design to develop smart and responsive cities

Smart Cities

• 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.

Future Cities

• 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

Quality of Life: Livability in Future Cities

• Learn how urban planning, energy, climate, ecology and mobility impact the livability and quality of life of a “future city.”

Responsive Cities.

• Identify the differences between Responsive Cities and Smart Cities

• Understand the concept of Citizen Design Science and its importance for Responsive Cities

• Learn and use the Qua-Kit online 3D modeller for a specific urban planning task

• Improve livability, governance and city planning with Responsive Cities principles

• Assess and develop the quality of urban public spaces based on data and information

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