Smart Cities Essentials – Introduction to City Planning

This Smart Cities Online Course is a complete introduction to City Planning, an increasingly prominent discipline in the Smart Cities design context, which allows to raise the quality of life for citizens through the implementation of different strategies.

In this online course, the learner will delve into Smart Cities’ definition, concepts, risks, challenges and trends. All these, paying attention to different key focus areas: human, technology and sustainability one.

This course will also review the Smart possibilities for different areas of a city: from Smart Economy to Smart People, including Smart Governance, Mobility, Environment and Living. The whole thing, paying particular attention to the role of main stakeholders involved in the decision-making and implementation processes (users, drivers, enablers and providers).

In addition, the course will outline the potential of technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Smart Cities context.

This Smart Cities online course is aimed at those professionals who want to deepen their knowledge of the different dimensions of City Planning and strategic management, obtaining a panoramic vision of the challenges and opportunities offered by this discipline.

Daniela Idrovo

Coordinator of management, communication and fundraising at La Dinamo Fundació.
Implementation of the security infrastructure plan in the City of Guayaquil. Undersecretary of Planning at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. PhD in Urban and Architectural Management and Valuation from UPC.

Eliana Bejarano

Business & Creativity. Experience in international negotiations, politics, culture and diplomatic service. Lawyer working in the promotion and financing of Govtech’s projects and Smart Cities. Passionate for creative economies, innovation, E- mobility and sustainability.

Introduction to “City Planning”
Session 0 | Introduction
Session 1 | Smart Cities – Definition & Concepts
Session 2 | Smart Cities and New urban Agenda
Session 3 | Risk, challenges and needs facing the cities in the XXI century
Session 4 | Current trends in City design and management
Session 5 | Key focus areas
Session 6 | Key findings

Understanding Smart Cities
Session 7 | First Cities
Session 8 | What is a Smart City?
Session 9 | Service Segments in smart Cities
Session 10 | Smart Mobility and Transportation
Session 11 | Smart Education
Session 12 | Smart Entrepreneurship
Session 13 | Smart Security
Session 14 | Service Providers & Services Consumers
Session 15 | Smart Governance
Session 16 | Positioning citizen in System
Session 17 | Service Delivery Channels
Session 18 | City service Landscape
Session 19 | Conclusions
Session 20 | Smart City Planning Basics

Smart City Planning And development
Session 21 | Video “Paula Kwan at TED TALKS”
Session 22 | Cities as Complex Systems
Session 23 | Tools &Technologies
Session 24 | IOT Tools
Session 25 | Blockchain Tools
Session 26 | Big Data Tools
Session 27 | GIS Tools
Session 28 | Key Considerations