Skip to 0 minutes and 5 seconds Hi, everyone. My name is Jan Scheurer. I’m honorary associate professor at RMIT University in Melbourne and Barcelona. My name is Rebecca Leshinsky, and I’m excited to invite you to join me and my colleagues as we investigate the urban design from two very distinct but intersecting perspectives. We’ll work together to examine some of the key forces shaping contemporary urban development and mobility. So we’re going to look at the mobility transition and what it has to do with the property industry. What is special about this course is that it’s actually bringing these two areas of expertise together into one. So it’s one thing to talk about mobility interventions and city transport infrastructure, urban design of public spaces.
Skip to 0 minutes and 50 seconds But a big topic that relates to that, of course, is what actually happens on private property, what actually happens in the buildings, and how does the built environment change as cities change and as how we move about cities change. We’ll have a look at the ways in which property developers balance competing environmental and financial agendas whilst remaining compliant with land use and transport policies. With all of that, we’re interested in how parking economics and technology are employed to strategically reduce or expand parking. We’re going to have a spatial interactive, which will actually take us through some real life urban spaces and explore how they are transforming.
Skip to 1 minute and 32 seconds And in another section, we’re going to have an interactive game where you can take different roles of stakeholders and simulate decisions about how cities can change. During this course, we’re going to bring you a lot of real life examples– not just from Australia, but also from Asia and particularly from Europe, and I hope you’ll enjoy the course.
