The second course week introduces you to the concept of urban systems and to the value of urban typologies for better understanding these systems. You will gain a detailed overview …
In this article, you will learn more about urbanization and its drivers. Urbanization refers to a variety of different processes. These include the topographic and demographic growth of cities, either …
Based on our previous considerations about the use of digital technologies for urban adaptation, we may ask ourselves: What are key challenges of using digital technologies for urban adaptation? Will …
In this article, we would like to simultaneously broaden and deepen our discussion about the use of ICT for urban adaptation. First, broadening our discussion means to introduce different types …
According to Eisenack et al. (2012), adaptation to the consequences of climate change has become a necessity globally. However, practitioners, policymakers, and scientists encounter many barriers that impede adaptation planning …
In this step, you will learn about urban planning processes, outputs, and how adaptation to climate change can be incorporated or ‘mainstreamed’ into urban planning processes and strategies. Urban planning …
In this article, we’ll introduce you to major development strategies within urban adaptation, in particular the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda (NUA), that set a vision …
Congratulations! You have completed this course! At this stage, we sincerely hope that you have learnt a lot about how cities can successfully adapt to environmental and climate change. We …
Christopher Alexander argued that multiple and complex connections and relationships make up a living city. He explicitly invites you to consider the various possibilities of interaction within the city, for …
Contemporary urbanization is believed to be in the third phase of urbanization, as urbanization in the global south (mainly Africa, Asia, Latin America) surpasses the urbanization rates of other regions. …
Risks have been closely related to opportunities since the dawn of the urban era. The risk of flooding, for example, is often inherent to the opportunities offered by access to …
We can conceptualise urbanisation as two expansion processes: one of the cities and the built environment, and one of their populations. Both processes can be expressed in terms of average …
There are many drivers for urbanisation and these may differ slightly from one geographic region, country or place to another. Cities have also been defined as ways of life, states …
The physical manifestation of a city most commonly comes to mind when people are asked to define or describe a city. These physical characteristics include types and density of buildings …
The governance of climate adaptation involves the collective efforts of multiple societal actors to address the risks, or reap the benefits, associated with impacts of climate change. This includes the …