Building Sustainable Cities Specialization
Building Sustainable Cities is a three-course program on urban sustainability and resilience. You’ll learn key concepts like climate impacts, urban heat, and flood risk; explore policy, technology, and carbon-reduction strategies; and analyze real-world case studies from cities including Lahaina, Washington DC, Copenhagen, and Singapore.
The program includes hands-on projects using case studies and practical examples. Each lesson ends with a short quiz, and each module includes a discussion and peer-reviewed project to help apply what you’ve learned.
By completing this specialization, you will learn how to:
Understand why urban resilience is important in the context of global climate change and social equity, and challenges facing today’s cities.
Understand the role and authority of local government and citizens in making sustainability decisions and ways to engage the public more effectively.
Evaluate key technology, design, and policy innovations leading resilience and sustainability programs around the world.
Examine how urban sustainability and resilience is put into practice in leading cities around the world.
Courses
- Climate Resilience and Urban Sustainability
- Policy, Technology, and Carbon Free Cities
- Sustainable Cities Case Studies