Micro-Course in Smart Urban Green Infrastructure
Helsinki, Finland
DURATION
10 Hours
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
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TUITION FEES
EUR 150
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Introduction
The Micro-Course in Smart Urban Green Infrastructure online course provides different approaches to Carbon Smart Urban Green Infrastructure. During the course, you will reflect on Urban Mobility Challenges and grasp the context and bigger picture of Urban Mobility, the built environment, and green infrastructure.
With the help of our faculty, you will gain an understanding of the context and the world in which we operate and some of the challenges that planners have to face. You will investigate the different advantages of carbon-smart urban green infrastructure and their applications to urban contexts. Moreover, you can gain richer experience and context from our case studies and examples. Finally, we will dive into urban green infrastructure planning, design, construction, and maintenance and present different case examples. This course leverages research and publications conducted by the CO-CARBON project and its researchers.
Key topics:
- Nobility, mobility infrastructure, and climate change
- The impact of urban green infrastructure on human behavior, health, and well-being
- Planning carbon-smart urban green infrastructure from city-level to green spaces
- Urban Green Infrastructure as means for Urban Regeneration
Benefits
One of the key aims of this course is to empower and motivate you to explore the potential of carbon-smart urban green infrastructure while fitting urban spaces for the impacts of climate change and using them in your work. You will have access to several lectures, case examples, short knowledge checks, and reflection assignments. These help you find tools and methodologies you can use immediately in your organization.
- This online course is designed to support independent study optimally. Course contents, methods, and tools are hand-picked to be applied in your work environment.
- The course is built with faculty members from the Aalto University Department of Built Environment, the Department of Architecture, and researchers from the Co-Carbon project.
- The course has been co-created with experts from the Co-Carbon project. One aim of the course is to leverage the project's research insights and disseminate the project's outcomes to a wide audience.
Ideal Students
The course is designed for urban mobility and transportation professionals, urban planners, and other professionals working in this field at any stage of their career.
Curriculum
Contents and Schedule
The study modules consist of video lectures, reflective knowledge checks, and an Echo Teams assignment, offering you a unique insight into communicative planning processes. Please note that the Echo Teams are not compulsory for the course. Still, we highly recommend you use this tool and arrange Echo Team meetings with your peers, teams, or colleagues from your work community to reflect and receive feedback on your learning journey.
The language of the course is English, and all videos include English subtitles. You can complete the course flexibly at your own pace.
The estimated study time of the course is 10 hours and learners have access to the course materials for three months. You can complete the course flexibly at your own pace. We recommend that you schedule your studies and complete around one module per 1-2 weeks.
- Module 1 - Mobility Challenges
- Module 2 - Urban Nature and Ecosystems
- Module 3 - Environmental Urban Mobility Impacts and Urban Nature as Infrastructure
- Module 4 - Designing the Green City
- Module 5 - Constructing and Managing the Green City
Program Outcome
- Apply basic principles of urban green infrastructure to your design and planning assignments
- Assess the impact of mobility infrastructure on climate change
- Identify the potential of carbon-smart urban green infrastructure to mitigate climate change
- Identify the benefits of urban green infrastructure to human well-being