Course description
With urban populations rising, local governments, public service agencies, and urban utilities face increasing demand for more excellent reliability, safety, affordability, and resiliency of ageing urban infrastructure systems.
These systems must be continuously adapted and upgraded (often with technology-driven solutions) to efficiently support essential public services, urban development, and economic growth. Urban planners lay the foundation for our everyday lives.
This course of Certified Urban Design (CUD) shall provide an understanding of designing tailor-making urban infrastructure towards environmental sustainability and analyzing public needs, thus shaping our cities and creating a comfortable, safer, convenient, and livable environment.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
The course of certified urban design is ideal for the following:
- Environment professionals
- Urban designers, for example, in management positions,
- Professionals who need to understand the urban design profession and work requirements.
- Principal, director or other management role overseeing urban design projects in architectural, landscape, planning or multi-disciplinary practices
- Design managers or team leaders in a local authority
- Development Managers
- Project managers
Outcome / Qualification etc.
After successful completion of this course, you will be able to :
- Practical exam training
- Explanation through case studies
- Solving previous years' exam questions
- Interact with fellow students and the instructor, who is on hand to give advice and promptly respond to questions in the discussion forums.
Training Course Content
Day 1
3D Design, Creativity and Critical Insight
- Deconstruct and reconstruct (how to take apart and recreate designs or
- problems)
- Generate creative solutions (i.e., thinking in ways not yet apparent)
- Using professional judgment to make decisions based on incomplete information
- Integrating broader critical and imaginative thinking into logistical (physical)
- hypothesis
- Understanding diverse perspectives and values
Day 2
Sustainability
- Built environment (open spaces, infrastructures)
- Natural environment (water, land form, climate)
- Historic preservation
- Retrofitting buildings
- Energy (conservation, generation)
- Cultural associations (references)
- Sense of community identity
- Appreciation for traditional patterns, materials and practice
- Access to transportation
- Access to housing
- Jobs to housing balance
- Access to services
Day 3
Urban Framework
- History and Precedents
- Theory and City Forms
- Land Use, Density and Intensity
- Urban Typology
- Block typology
- Street typology
- Publicly accessible open spaces, streets and orientation
- Civic and cultural facilities
Day 4
Agency
- Understanding and Managing Change
- Tools and techniques appropriate to the audience (e.g., social media, mainstream media, public presentation, engagement and education etc.)
- Communicating benefits of urban design
- Engaging in diagnostic activities
- Project management | Conflict resolution | Managing interdisciplinary teams
- Aesthetics (sense of beauty) | Fiscal impact | Quality of life (sense of place) | Improved health, safety and wellness
Day 5
Implementation Tools | Development | Legal | Tools of the trade
- Design Standards and Urban Design
- Capital Improvement Programs
- Incentives: Public, Private and Instutional
- Real Estate Economics
- Construction impacts | Capital, operating, maintenance and lifecycle cost
- Ownership rights | Case law | Land, building, fire and related codes
- Visual evaluation tools | GIS | Graphic presentation of quantitative information
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