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Smart Cities – Management of Smart Urban Infrastructures

Learn about Smart Cities within the context of management of urban infrastructures. The introduction of Smart urban technologies into legacy infrastructures has resulted in numerous challenges and opportunities for contemporary cities and will continue to do so. This course will help you to understand how to make the best of these smart technologies in your cities’ legacy infrastructures. Over the past few years, advances in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have significantly challenged the traditionally stable land scape of urban infrastructure service provision. This has resulted in increasing interest from both technology vendors and public authorities in the transition of cities towards so-called “Smart Cities”. Although such “Smart technologies” can provide immense opportunities for citizens and service providers alike, the ICTs often act as disruptive innovators of urban infrastructure service provision. In this MOOC, you will gain a thorough understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with the Smart urban infrastructures, namely Smart urban transportation and Smart urban energy systems. Over the journey of this 5-week online course you will learn about the most important principles for the management of Smart urban infrastructures as well as the applications of these principles in the transportation and energy sectors. This course does not have any prerequisites. However, to take the most away from of this MOOC, we strongly encourage you to enroll in our other MOOC on the Management of Urban Infrastructures, which has been widely praised by learners. Through this course, you will: - Gain a deep understanding of the nature of disruptive innovations (smart technologies) in urban infrastructure systems; - Learn about state-of-the-art strategies for effectively managing the transition from legacy infrastructures to smart urban systems; - Study the management of the transition phase from legacy infrastructure systems to smart cities by supporting innovations while avoiding early lock-in; and - Understand potential applications of the materials learned in this course within the context of the management of smart urban transportation systems as well as smart urban energy systems.

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Rating 4.5 based on 141 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Effort 5 weeks of study, 2-3 hours per week
Starts Jun 16 (45 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne via Coursera
Instructor Matthias Finger
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Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Business
Tags Social Sciences Governance And Society Business Leadership And Management

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smart cities

A great course which gives an overview of the Smart Cities.

The course deals with several fundamental features of smart cities, yes.

The transition toward Smart Cities was well addressed in terms of challenges from different aspects.3.

Background knowledge of Smart Cities and examples/interviews with people supported the learning ground of Smart Cities and management of infrastructures.

Will provide basic principles in becoming a smart service provider for my city A great course for those interested and searching for in-depth information and knowledge about smart cities !

Great course about Smart Cities.

High quality course/instructor/interviewees This is an extremely well prepared course, focusing on the actual trends and theory on Smart Cities A very good course which give a strong structure to think about Smart Cities.I particularly like the interviews and the different exemples shared at the end of the readings.

I would have appreciated to have more concrete examples and cases Good course to learn more about Smart Cities.

Thank you I gained some ideas I can use for developing real projects on Smart Cities.

When the different cases were presented maybe I would have appreciated some more specific examples of smart cities real applications illustrated with diagrams or pictures.

Ideal to understand the concept of Smart Cities and understand the key challenges for urban managers and policy makers.

Good information and approach on smart cities with lessons and people really involved on Smart Cities This course has the best knowledge bank regarding the True concept of Smar Cities.

IT DID NOT MEET MY EXPECTATIONS:-(:-(:-( Excellent introductory class on smart cities.

Perhaps, better MOOC on smart cities among available ones.

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smart city

It can be helpful to plan a smart city I'd say too much of theory and learner's view on a subject.

Very information and useful course to understand the challenges and solutions for Smart City for Energy and Transport domains.

For Practioners from India should take this course and compare it with the Smart City Mission and Digital India mission of Our Government.

it really gave an insight to Smart City Concepts.

It gave me an approach to smart city development Very informative and interesting course.

This course is about generic concepts on governance towards the implementation of Smart City systems.

The smart city concept is put into context and provides a basic outline of knowledge to pertain to when talking about the topic.Negative: Boring lecturing, bad power point slides (in terms of modernity and structure), acted interviews.

more real-life smart city cases with detailed infographic data please!

Just an excellent course.I am amazed by the research efforts you put into this subject knowing that it is still technically thoretical.I loved learning about the challenges that our cities will face and it gave me more motivation to find solutions and to work towards this goal of Smart City.

Thanks Very detailed and to the point course related to the smart city projects.

It will help anybody who is interested in understanding the challenges of the smart city and whom they concern.Thank you!

Good course, it gives you an overview on how a Smart City should be and the important aspects it should address.

This MOOC really helped me to learn about the steps of transition towards a smart city and how to manage them in a brief perspective.

This course gives you a basics of Smart City ideas what are components are pertaining for implementation.

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urban infrastructure

After this course, I am definitely going to look at urban planning, use cases of machine learning and NLP and more, and actors in the urban infrastructure and services scene, always with the bigger picture in mind - a picture shaped by the various matrices (three layers against five dimensions) and illustrations presented in this course.

Excellent Course to understand transition to smart city development and understand all implications The course was extremely informative and the lectures had interesting insights to ponder about on smart cities and smart urban infrastructures.

A very interactive course to learn the overall strategic structure of smart cities and how a traditional urban infrastructure can be made smart through ICTs or data layer with two approaches shift pathway and improve pathway.

It help me understand the Urban Infrastructures and its important role in cities, and how it transition to smart cities, the challenges we meets.

Excellent content about how digitalization is transforming our urban infrastructure.

This course provides significant knowledge on the concept of developing Smart Urban Infrastructures.

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case studies

The case studies are excellent.

Sound theoretical inputs to understand the smart cities trends and inspiring case studies / testimonies to understand their applications.

And I would like to learn more about case studies.

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learning experience

Thank you so much It was a great learning experience because of the depth of sub topics covered, the dimensions of smart cities, the interviews with thought leaders, and the reading materials.

Thanks for the learning experience!

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so much

It really help me so much in my study!

Thank you so much.

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highly recommended

Highly recommended!

Highly recommended.

mathias finger

Special congratulations to Prof. Mathias Finger.

Thank you Prof. Mathias Finger.

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Una visión muy acertada sobre el futuro de la movilidad en las ciudades inteligentes.

Cours très bien construit, complet et vivant grâce aux entretiens avec des professionnels de la ville.

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more concrete

More examples, more concrete information would give more useful insights... Great content, presentations quality good.

I would have liked more concrete examples of cities and of the different concepts that were described , although the majority of the interviews were very interesting.Thank you for sharing this knowledge !!!

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Thanks to all staff It was a great learning experience because of the depth of sub topics covered, the dimensions of smart cities, the interviews with thought leaders, and the reading materials.

Thanks to all staff Great course content..it will really help me on the smart city project to define the priority of smart city initiatives.

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Urban Forester 1 $49k

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Urban Planner 2 $62k

Coordinator - Urban Music $65k

Urban Designer | Planner $70k

Urban Model $70k

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Rating 4.5 based on 141 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Effort 5 weeks of study, 2-3 hours per week
Starts Jun 16 (45 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne via Coursera
Instructor Matthias Finger
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Business
Tags Social Sciences Governance And Society Business Leadership And Management

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