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Professional Certificate inSustainable Cities and Urban Development
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What you will learn

  • Understand urban development and the scale, scope, and establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals
  • Gain an overview of urban systems, including governance, land management, and utilities to recognize the new urban sciences that are driving our understanding of urbanization across the world
  • Explore the impact of people-focused issues, how technological change is adopted and deployed, and case studies from the Global North and South
  • Examine carefully how we should understand how to trace, examine and explore the ways new social, economic and environmental changes emerge and reshape the working of the city.
  • Understand how best to intervene in urban futures through sharing urban experiences and contributing to the coproduction of knowledge to enrich and strengthen knowledge exchange in cities.

  • Expert instruction
    3 skill-building courses
  • Self-paced
    Progress at your own speed
  • 4 months
    3 - 5 hours per week
  • Discounted price:$150.30 Original price:$167.00 USD
    For the full program experience

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SDGAcademyX's Sustainable Cities and Urban Development Professional Certificate

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from SDG Academy (SDGAcademyX)

Aromar Revi
Joshua Castellino
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Susan Parnell
Sheela Patel
Peter Newman
Raf Tuts
Debra Roberts
Eugenie Birch
Edgar Pieterse
Michael Cohen
David Satterthwaite
Michael Keith
Juan Carlos Duque
Pengjun Zhao
Neave O'Cleary
Susan Parnell
Edgar Pieterse
Tim Schwanen
Gautam Bhan
Aromar Revi
Aromar Revi

Director

Indian Institute for Human Settlements

Joshua Castellino
Joshua Castellino

Executive Director and Professor of Law

Minorities Rights Group International

Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs

Professor

Columbia University

Susan Parnell
Susan Parnell

Chair in Human Geography

University of Bristol

Sheela Patel
Sheela Patel

Founder Director

Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), Mumbai

Peter Newman
Peter Newman

John Curtin Distinguished Professor

Curtin University

Raf Tuts
Raf Tuts

Director, Programme Division

United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat

Debra Roberts
Debra Roberts

Founder and Head

Environmental Planning and Climate Protection Department of eThekwini Municipality, Durban

Eugenie Birch
Eugenie Birch

Professor and Co-Director PennIUR (Institute for Urban Research)

University of Pennsylvania

Edgar Pieterse
Edgar Pieterse

South African Research Chair in Urban Policy

University of Cape Town

Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen

Professor and Director of International Affairs

The New School, New York

David Satterthwaite
David Satterthwaite

Senior Fellow

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Michael Keith
Michael Keith

Professor and Director

PEAK Urban, University of Oxford

Juan Carlos Duque
Juan Carlos Duque

Director

Research in Spatial Economics (RiSE), EAFIT University

Pengjun Zhao
Pengjun Zhao

Director

Centre for Urban Planning and Transport Studies, Peking University

Neave O'Cleary
Neave O'Cleary

Associate Professor

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London

Susan Parnell
Susan Parnell

Global Challenges Research Professor

School of Geography, University of Bristol

Edgar Pieterse
Edgar Pieterse

Director

African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town

Tim Schwanen
Tim Schwanen

Director

Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford

Gautam Bhan
Gautam Bhan

Associate Dean

School of Human Development, Indian Institute for Human Settlements

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