Quality of Life: Livability in Future Cities offered by ETH Zurich has won in our online pole about the best free online course in Urban Architecture. The course explains how urban planning, energy, climate, ecology and mobility affect the livability and quality of life of a “future city”.
The other entries in the pole were:
· Housing and Cities by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, a design-oriented architecture course that focuses on key moments of European urban housing history.
· Designing Cities by The University of Pennsylvania that teaches how decisions made by governments, business investors, and citizens shape cities.
· Smart Cities by ETH Zurich that teaches how data and information affect the design, sustainability and resilience of future cities.
· Groundscape Architecture Design Lab, Re-Thinking Cities Underground by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, that explores subterranean architecture and investigates the universe of possibilities that lie beneath the surface of our cities.