Future cities Ing./MSc.
A comprehensive renewal toward a next renaissance.
The course Future cities explores the concept of future-friendly cities – i.e. the development of new cities as well as the transformation of existing ones – in line with three goals:
- Social well-being: Future-friendly cities are soul-cities oriented toward personal well-being, family life, and community regeneration.
- Ecological integrity: Future-friendly cities are eco-cities fostering advanced sustainability in all areas: materials, energy, water, waste, transportation, communication, etc.
- Higher human potential: Future-friendly cities are learning-cities incorporating a lifelong, lifewide and lifedeep learning paradigm in a rich web of educational institutions including new types of kindergartens, schools and universities offering holistic education, as well as innovative educational hubs, labs (social labs/living labs/transformation labs), etc.
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