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This online course gives an introduction to the Middle Ages in the Arabic world. It includes aspects such as the Medieval Islamic City, the role of travel and religion, trade,...

This online course explores how ecology can guide urban design to avert environmental disasters and improve people’s lives.

This online course explores how architecture and housing define cities and society.

This course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. It places cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change....

This course teaches language and techniques that will help participants make effective presentations in English. The final task is to develop a well-organized, persuasive...

This online course explores what is meant by urban cultural heritage and key concepts related to it. It uses the examples of Doha, Singapore, Los Angeles and others.

This online course (MOOC) explores ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE.Topics discussed in the course include:Prehistory to HomerThe...

This online course explores the basics of urban planning in Africa through technical, environmental, social and economical dimensions.

Urbanization is reaching a new peak in the contemporary world with the rise of mega cities. Researchers try to make sense of these large urban areas using a variety of concepts....

In this architecture course, students will learn how to "read" Rome, an ancient city, reborn in the fifteenth century and reshaped substantially in the following three...

This online course explores how to finance infrastructure in fast-growing African cities.

This online course explores cycling in modern cities and analyses the state-of-the-art knowledge that emerges from research and practice on the Dutch cycling system.

This online course teaches the principles of urban infrastructure management and how to incorporate smart technologies into legacy infrastructures.

This online course explores how streets can be re-imagined as a space for people rather than infrastructure for moving traffic.

In this part of the course, students will look at the changes that occurred in postwar Tokyo over a quarter of a century from four different perspectives: 1) occupation and...

This series of online lectures explores the physical and social form of cities. It covers theories about the form that settlements should take and attempts a distinction between...

This online course program explores four facets of contemporary Japanese architecture: theory, technology, city, and humans. Through lectures by instructors and discussions with...

This online course teaches about today’s urban challenges focusing on developing countries, referred to as the global south. The course explores pathways that are going beyond...

This online course explores the medieval city of Toledo (Spain) and assesses its history of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious and cultural coexistence.

This online course (MOOC) teaches how citizen’s co-creation is key in making cities worldwide more sustainable.It explores in detail the potential of co-creation and also...