Beyond Smart Cities: Emerging Design and Technology Online Short Course
Cambridge, USA
DURATION
6 Weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
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TUITION FEES
USD 2,900
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Introduction
Be at the forefront of sustainable development by learning to leverage cutting-edge disruptive technology for meaningful, high-performance urban solutions.
With more than half of the world’s population living in urban areas, there’s a growing interest in developing smarter, safer, and more sustainable cities that are responsive to their citizens. While smart city solutions typically focus on digital enhancements to existing urban infrastructure, the MIT Media Lab Beyond Smart Cities: Emerging Design and Technology online short course goes beyond optimizations. Over six weeks, you’ll explore ways in which disruptive technology can dramatically improve the planning, design, and management of contemporary cities for a more resilient future. Guided by MIT faculty, you’ll discover how technologies like data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), new urban systems, real-time simulations, and predictive urban design can be leveraged to realize more entrepreneurial, high-performance, and livable urban communities.
An online education that sets you apart
This MIT Sloan online program is delivered in collaboration with online education provider GetSmarter. Join a growing community of global professionals, and benefit from the opportunity to:
- Develop new competencies and earn valuable recognition from an international selection of universities, entirely online and in your own time frame.
- Enjoy a personalized, people-mediated online learning experience that supports you every step of the way.
- Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones.
Why choose GetSmarter?
GetSmarter, powered by 2U, is an online learning expert with over 10 years of experience in developing premium online short courses from the world’s leading universities and institutions. We are powered by 2U to support you in unlocking your potential through life-changing learning with an immersive and high-touch experience.
We deliver market-led courses that equip working professionals with the expertise required to upskill, reskill or kickstart a completely new career. Through a data-driven approach, we analyze future skills requirements and ensure all courses address this need. We ensure that leading universities and institutions are your expert guides and our people, technology, and resources are your engine – together we power more than just education, we power your potential.
Ideal Students
Is this course for you?
This online course is designed for professionals interested in urban planning and design, who are seeking ways to transform cities for a more sustainable and vibrant future. With a focus on technology and data, the program is particularly relevant to those who are focused on designing, investing in, and delivering smart city solutions.
Program Outcome
You’ll walk away with:
- Knowledge of how innovations in technology, design, planning, and policy can improve urban living and quality of life — at both a local and global level.
- An understanding of how the application of disruptive technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), and data analytics, can solve urban challenges.
- Insight into the latest trends and research in the built environment, informed by industry experts, giving you a competitive business advantage in the urban solutions environment.
Curriculum
- Module 1: Design and Technology for People-Centric Cities
Identify how global challenges can be best addressed at a community level. - Module 2: The Mobility Revolution and Urban Robotics
Propose a solution to mobility challenges by analyzing data about current mobility patterns, considering emerging transportation modes and their attributes. - Module 3: The Live-Work Transformation: Robotics, Prefabrication, and IoT Technology
Show methods of reimagining living and working spaces to make cities equitable, vibrant, and liveable. - Module 4: A Network of Neighborhoods: AI, Real-Time Simulation, and Emerging Systems
Develop an evidence-based process with metrics related to density, proximity, and diversity to enable more entrepreneurial and high-performance cities. - Module 5: Sustainable Communities: Local Production and Lower Consumption
Evaluate more effective land use, distributed energy systems, and alternative mobility modes as ways to lower a city's environmental footprint. - Module 6: Governance: Token Economies and Algorithmic Zoning for Prosocial Behaviors
Draft an outline of new governance models, behaviours, and emerging technologies to facilitate a healthier, high-functioning community.
Manage your time
GetSmarter's learning model is designed to help you, as a working professional, improve your skills without compromising on work and family responsibilities. The course work is broken up into weekly, manageable bite-sized modules, with incremental deadlines, designed to help you pace yourself over the duration of the course and allow you the legroom to work when it suits you best.
At the beginning of each module, you'll be presented with the course content and assignments necessary for completion. You also have access to your Success Adviser who will help you manage your time, and support you with any administrative or technical queries you might have.
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