Introduction to Week 2
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 …
Course: Sustainable Cities: Governing Urban Adaptation Under Climate Change
What is Urbanization?
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 …
The Challenges of Using Digital Technologies for Urban Adaptation
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 …
Using Digital Technologies for Urban Adaptation
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 …
Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation
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 …
Urban 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 …
Urban Adaptation: Development Strategies
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 …
Thank you for participating
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 …
Why are cities complex systems?
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 …
Phases of urbanization
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 and urban adaptation
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 …
What does urbanisation mean?
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 …
How to improve understanding of climate risks in urbanised areas
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 …
Climate Adaptation Strategies in Cities
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 …
Urban Adaptation: Societal Actors
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 …
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Sustainable Cities: Governing Urban Adaptation Under Climate Change
