Reclaiming the Street for Livable Urban Spaces
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Reclaiming the Street for Livable Urban Spaces at Coursera Overview
Duration | 20 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Reclaiming the Street for Livable Urban Spaces at Coursera Highlights
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- Beginner Level
- Approx. 20 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Reclaiming the Street for Livable Urban Spaces at Coursera Course details
- In Reclaiming the Street, you will learn about the mechanisms of change and challenges you to apply this knowledge to start creating vibrant streetscapes in your neighbourhood. This six week course will guide you through seminal academic work on the topics of transition management and street experiments while providing practical insights from practitioners from around the world. A final peer-reviewed project integrates key takeaways from each module of this course to help you write an actionable plan for change.
- This online course is supported by the EIT Urban Mobility?s Competence Hub. EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) that has been working since January 2019 to encourage positive changes in the way people move around cities in order to make them more sustainable and liveable places.
Reclaiming the Street for Livable Urban Spaces at Coursera Curriculum
1 - Understanding Transitions in Mobility
Course Introduction
The global cycling momentum: how to keep the wheels running
Tactical Urbanism in New Zealand
About EIT Urban Mobility
Transitions of mobility systems in urban regions: A heuristic framework
Transitions of mobility systems in urban regions: A heuristic framework
Graded Quiz on Week 1
2 - Streets as Transition Experiments
Introduction by George Liu
Oakland?s 75 Miles of Slow Streets: Mobility Experiments During Lockdown
From ?streets for traffic? to ?streets for people?: can street experiments transform urban mobility?
The Guardian: Milan announces ambitious scheme to reduce car use after lockdown
From ?streets for traffic? to ?streets for people?: can street experiments transform urban mobility?
Milan announces ambitious scheme to reduce car use after lockdown
Graded Quiz on Week 2
3 - Living World vs. System World
Introduction by Marco te Brommelstroet
Interview with Nanke Verloo
The Big Street Reclaimation in France
Conversation with a Traffic Engineer
Captured by bureaucracy: street-level professionals mediating past, present and future knowledge
Captured by bureaucracy: street-level professionals mediating past, present and future knowledge
Graded Quiz on Week 3
4 - Redefining Traffic in Cities
Introduction by George Liu
Interview with Kim Carlotta von Schonfeld
Lessons from London: Mini Holland to Largest Car?free Area
The Importance of Language Pyramid by Marco te Brommelstroet
Urban streets: Epitomes of planning challenges and opportunities at the interface of public space and mobility
NYT: The Traffic Trade-Off
NYT: In Lockdown, a Neighborhood Opens Up
Urban streets: Epitomes of planning challenges and opportunities at the interface of public space and mobility
The Traffic Trade-Off / In Lockdown, a Neighborhood Opens Up
Graded Quiz on Week 4
5 - Guerilla Style
Introduction by Marco te Brommelstroet
Interview with Federico Savini
Pandemic Street Transformations in New York City
The social capital of urban activism: Practices in London and Amsterdam.
NYT: I've Seen a Future Without Cars, and It's Amazing
In the weeds of bureaucratic insanity there sprouts a small reprieve
The social capital of urban activism: Practices in London and Amsterdam.
Graded Quiz on Week 5
6 - Wrapping up the Course
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