ETH Zurich
Future Cities Programme (4 Courses)
ﾓFuture Citiesﾔ is a series of urban MOOCs bringing the latest research results on planning, managing and transforming cities to those places in the world where they are needed most.| Length | 1 to 3 months |
| Effort | 3 hours per week, per course |
| Price | 180$ |
| Subject | Architecture, Social Sciences |
| Level | Introductory |
| Languages | English |
| Video Transcripts | English |
Our long-term goal is to make the ﾓFuture Citiesﾔ series on urban MOOCs the worldwide first and complete series of urban courses dealing with the design, management and transformation of cities for their sustainable and resilient future. This leads to a modular collection of urban MOOCs for each part of the urban system. The first overview course ﾓFuture Citiesﾔ opens a holistic view on existing and future cities. Each following urban MOOC increases in depth and in specialization.
What you'll learn
ﾷ Better understand the dynamic behavior of the urban system by going beyond the physical appearance and by focusing on representations, properties and impact factors
ﾷ Explore the city as the most complex human-made organism with a metabolism that can be modeled in terms of stocks and flows
ﾷ Learn about data-informed approaches for the development of the future city, based on crowdsourcing and sensing
ﾷ Learn about the latest research results in for the development and management of future cities
ﾷ Understand how citizens can benefit from data-informed design to develop smart and responsive cities
Course syllabus
ﾷ ﾓFuture Citiesﾔ provides an overview.
ﾷ ﾓQuality of Life: Livability in Future Citiesﾔ describes factors of livability in cities.
ﾷ ﾓSmart Citiesﾔ presents realistic approaches, methods and techniques to increase the sustainability and resilience of cities.
. "Reponsive Cities" explore the future of urbanization as you learn about responsive Cities, ones that bring the city back to their citizens.
Meet the instructors
Lai Choo Malone-Lee
Director, Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities (CSAC)
National University of Singapore
Kees Christiaanse
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
ETH Zurich
Ina Homeier
Architect
Corine Mauch
Mayor of the City of Z?rich
Kevin Schawinski
Professor of galaxy and black hole astrophysics
ETH Zurich
Christoph H?lscher
Professor, Cognitive Science
ETH Zurich
Dirk Helbing
Professor, Computational Social Science
ETH Zurich
Bige Tun?er
Associate Professor
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Markus Schl?pfer
Lead, Urban Complexity Project
ETH Future Cities Lab
Matthias Standfest
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chair of Information Architecture
ETH Zurich
Gerhard Schmitt
Professor of Information Architecture
ETH Zurich
Dirk Hebel
Assistant Professor, Architecture and Construction
ETH Future Cities Lab
Reinhard K?nig
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer
ETH Zurich
Bernhard Klein
Senior Researcher
ETH Future Cities Lab
Marcel Br?lisauer
ETH Chair of Economics
ETH Future Cities Lab
Chen Zhong
Postdoctoral Fellow
ETH Future Cities Lab
Peter Edwards
Director of the Singapore-ETH Center
ETH Zurich
Jane Jacobs
Professor of Urban Studies
ETH Zurich
Stephen Cairns
Scientific Directory of the ETH Future Cities Laboratory
ETH Zurich
Jan Carmeliet
Professor of Building Physics
ETH Zurich
Matthias Roth
Associate Professor of Geography
National University of Singapore
Alex Erath
Postdoctoral Fellow
ETH Future Cities Laboratory
Matthias Berger
Senior Researcher
ETH Future Cities Laboratory
Ulrike Wissen Hayek
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
ETH Zurich
Estefania Tapias
Postdoctoral fellow and Lecturer, Chair of Information Architecture
ETH Zurich
Renate Schubert
Professor for Economics
ETH Zurich