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Professional Certificate in
Sustainable Cities and Urban Development
SDGAcademyX

What you will learn

  • Understand urban development and the scale, scope, and establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals
  • Gain an overview of urban systems, including governance, land management, and utilities to recognize the new urban sciences that are driving our understanding of urbanization across the world
  • Explore the impact of people-focused issues, how technological change is adopted and deployed, and case studies from the Global North and South
  • Examine carefully how we should understand how to trace, examine and explore the ways new social, economic and environmental changes emerge and reshape the working of the city.
  • Understand how best to intervene in urban futures through sharing urban experiences and contributing to the coproduction of knowledge to enrich and strengthen knowledge exchange in cities.
Expert instruction
3 skill-building courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
4 months
3 - 5 hours per week
Discounted price: $150.30
Pre-discounted price: $167USD
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Courses in this program

  1. SDGAcademyX's Sustainable Cities and Urban Development Professional Certificate

Meet your instructors
from SDG Academy (SDGAcademyX)

Susan Parnell
Sheela Patel
Peter Newman
Raf Tuts
Debra Roberts
Eugenie Birch
Edgar Pieterse
David Satterthwaite
Michael Cohen
Michael Keith
Juan Carlos Duque
Pengjun Zhao
Neave O'Cleary
Susan Parnell
Edgar Pieterse
Tim Schwanen
Gautam Bhan
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Joshua Castellino
Aromar Revi

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Discounted price: $150.30
Pre-discounted price: $167USD
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