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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Ethical Cities: Shaping the Future of Your City
RMIT University and UN Global Compact Cities Programme
This online course looked in depth at the challenges facing cities, exploring the power of various entities in the city and examining how they help solve or exacerbate local problems. Learners delved into the notion of the ethical city and how it adds value to professionals and citizens, especially in terms of how it can help to improve the quality of urban life. Learners also explored issues like social justice, corporate responsibility and ethical practice at the city level.
5 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr. Brendan Barrett
Research Fellow, Global Compact Cities Programme
RMIT University
Professor Ralph Horne
Director, Global Compact Cities Programme
UN Global Compact Cities Programme
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss the current circumstances and challenges facing your city and compare other cities around the world.
- Explore the notion of the ethical city and its added value to professionals and citizens in terms of how it helps improve the quality of urban life.
- Develop a personal framework to evaluate current plans, actions, measures, perspectives, methods, approaches and recipes designed to shape urban development in your city.
- Evaluate through stakeholder mapping the structures and influence of various entities in your city and how they work to help solve or exacerbate local problems.
- Reflect upon the broader context of issues like social justice, corporate responsibility and ethical practice at the city level.
Syllabus
- Current challenges facing cities around the world
- Ethical principles that can form the foundation of an ethical lens through which to evaluate situations and decisions
- Notion of the ethical city and its added value to professionals and citizens in terms of how it helps improve the quality of urban life
- Issues of corruption, their impact on development and how they can be combated
- Characteristics of ethical leaders
- How operational structures of local government improve or exacerbate local issues
- How urban planning can improve or degrade urban quality of life
- Business responsibility in creating and shaping ethical cities
- New models for ethical leadership, planning and business
- Tools for citizen engagement and participation
Issued on 19th January 2017
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