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Beyond Smart Cities: Emerging Design and Technology

Intermediate

This course explores how disruptive technology can dramatically improve the planning, design, and management of modern cities for a more resilient future. Guided by MIT faculty, you'll learn to leverage data analytics, AI, and other technologies to create high-performance, livable urban communities.

Data Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Urban Systems
Real-time Simulations
Predictive Urban Design

Overview

In this course, you will explore ways in which data analytics, artificial intelligence, new urban systems, real-time simulations, and predictive urban design can be leveraged to create more entrepreneurial, high-performance, and livable urban communities. You will gain strategies for more effective land use, distributed energy systems, and alternative mobility, and learn to recognize and identify the challenges in contemporary city design, with solutions for healthier and more sustainable city systems.

English
course language
Professional Certification
upon course completion

Who is this course for?

Urban Planning Professionals

Professionals interested in urban planning and design who want to transform cities for a more sustainable and vibrant future.

Smart City Solution Designers

Individuals focusing on designing, investing in, and delivering smart city solutions, with an emphasis on technology and data.

Policy Makers

Policy makers looking to leverage technological innovation to improve urban living standards and sustainability.

This course offers key benefits such as leveraging technological innovation to improve urban design and planning, covering main topics like data analytics, AI, and urban systems. It is ideal for professionals in urban planning and design, helping them achieve their goals of creating sustainable and vibrant cities.

Pre-Requisites

1 / 3

Basic understanding of urban planning and design principles
Interest in technology and data-driven solutions for urban challenges
Professional experience in related fields is beneficial but not required

What will you learn?

Orientation module

Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Design and technology for people-centric cities

Explore how design and technology can be used to create cities that are centered around the needs of people.

Module 2: The mobility revolution and urban robotics

Examine the impact of the mobility revolution and urban robotics on city planning and design.

Module 3: The live-work transformation: Robotics, prefabrication, and IoT technology

Learn about the transformation of live-work spaces through robotics, prefabrication, and IoT technology.

Module 4: A network of neighborhoods: AI, real-time simulation, and emerging systems

Understand how AI, real-time simulation, and emerging systems can create interconnected neighborhoods.

Module 5: Sustainable communities: Local production and lower consumption

Discover strategies for creating sustainable communities through local production and lower consumption.

Module 6: Governance: Token economies and algorithmic zoning for prosocial behaviors

Explore governance models that use token economies and algorithmic zoning to promote prosocial behaviors.

Meet your instructor

Kent Larson
Professor of the Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kent Larson is an architect, entrepreneur, and academic. He is the Director of City Science at MIT Media Lab, with research on compact transformable housing, ultralight autonomous mobility systems, sensing and algorithms to recognize and respond to complex human behavior, and advanced design, modeling, simulation, and tangible interfaces for future cities.

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