Governance of Sustainable Cities and Communities

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures with the help of audiovisual media where concepts, principles and theories are presented in detail. Practical examples and real data that meet all the needs of students are presented, with guidelines provided.

Assessment of students involves the undertaking of individual assignments including the production and hand-in of the respective reports, and oral presentation subjected to questions where knowledge transmitted during the course is also evaluated.

Learning Outcomes

- Identify, present and transmit knowledge on the most relevant thematic areas associated with the 5 sub-goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities most identified with governance area;

- Harmonize the level of basic knowledge on the main theme of the master's course among students who will potentially come from different scientific areas;  

- Introduce students to the diversity of areas, facilities, equipment and conditions for the development of scientific work in the set of universities that are part of the EC2U project alliance, with particular focus on the subset of those involved in the master's course, in order to better inform its process of selection of the thesis theme by the students;

- Develop students' analysis, synthesis and communication skills.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

National and regional development planning. Urban Planning and Management. Policies for inclusion, resource efficiency and disaster risk reduction. Safe and affordable housing and basic services. Cooperation and support with least develloped countries. 

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

- Derk Loorbach, Julia M. Wittmayer, Hideaki Shiroyama, Junichi Fujino, Satoru Mizuguchi: Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions - European and Asian Experiences, ISBN: 978-4-431-55426-4, Springer

- van der Heijden, Jeroen: Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience - Responding to Climate Change and the Relevance of the Built Environment, 2014, Elgaronline, ISBN 978 1 78254 812 6, 256 pages

- Joss, Simon "Sustainable Cities: Governing for Urban Innovation", 2015,  Pallgrave Macmillan Publishers, ISBN-13 978113700635, 352 pages

- Etingoff, Kimberly "Sustainable Cities - Urban Planning Challenges and Policy, 2017, CRC Press, ISBN 9781315365213,  https://doi.org/10.1201/b19796

- S.P. Corgnati, M. Gameiro da Silva, R. Ansaldi, E. Asadi, J.J. Costa, M. Filippi, J. Kaczmarczyk, A.K. Melikov, B.W. Olesen, Z. Popiolek, P. Wargocki, Indoor climate quality assessment/REHVA guidebook No. 14, REHVA, Brussles (2011).