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Cities Complexity Environment Health Resilience Society Urban World

MOOC – Healthy Urban Systems Part II

The MOOC – Healthy Urban Systems Part II

is now available on Coursera!

You will learn to:

  • Address urban health through complex multidisciplinary approaches
  • Use multidimensional and multiscale concepts, methods, and ecosystem frameworks
  • Mobilize and support all players directly or indirectly involved in urban health.

Dedicated to all levels of disciplines linked to the city, health, the environment, social and human sciences, data sciences…

The MOOC is entirely in English, with possible subtitles in French and Chinese.

The part II is dedicated to Theories and models

Module 3: Theoretical frameworks

  • Theories
    • Frameworks, theories, and models in relation with the fundamental concepts
    • Complex systems, Urban metabolism, Urban Ecology, Eco-system
    • Transition and resilience
  • Applications
    • Scaling effects in cities
    • Cognitive processes: Dissonance and mismatch
    • Participatory approaches
    • Collective and systems intelligence

Module 4 : Tools for modeling

  • Systems Modeling
    • Different Methods of Modelling (SD Simulation, Agent based, holistic system modeling) / individual – aggregated.
    • Modelling an epidemic: Agent Based modelling vs system dynamics.
  •  Implementation of concrete projects
    • AIRQ+ for outdoor Air Quality
    • CHEST for Household air quality
    • HEAT Model
    • Eco-policy© model
  •  Holistic Systems Modeling©

Materials: videos, glossary, quizzes, exercises, discussion forum

Duration: 4 weeks – 1 session per week to be taken at your convenience

Workload: 2 to 3 hours per week

Accreditation (possible and not compulsory): 2 ECTS for PART II, issued by the University of Lausanne via COURSERA (US$ 25)

General coordination:

University of Lausanne – UNIL-EPFL Foundation for Continuing Education

Prof. Céline Rozenblat, Jeff van de Poel

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Healthy Urban Systems course

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Cities Health Resilience SCIENCE Society Urban

MOOC – Healthy Urban Systems

We invite you to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Healthy Urban Systems, designed specifically for professionals and enthusiasts in the field of urban health. This first part of the MOOC series (consisting of 3 MOOCs) will take you on a comprehensive 4-week journey, navigating through multidisciplinary frameworks and analytical observations critical to understanding the complexities of urban health.

You will learn to:

  • Address urban health through complex multidisciplinary approaches.
  • Use multidimensional and multiscale concepts, methods, and ecosystem frameworks.
  • Mobilize and support all players directly or indirectly involved in urban health.
  • Dedicated to all levels of disciplines linked to the city, health, the environment, social and human sciences, data sciences…

The MOOC is entirely in English, with possible subtitles in French and Chinese.

Materials: videos, glossary, quizzes, exercises, discussion forum.

Duration: 4 weeks – 1 session per week to be taken at your convenience.

Workload: 2 to 3 hours per week.

Accreditation (possible and not compulsory): 2 ECTS for PART I, issued by the University of Lausanne.

General coordination:

University of Lausanne – UNIL-EPFL Foundation for Continuing Education

Prof. Céline Rozenblat, Jeff van de Poel

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Books Cities Communication Economy Graph analysis History MAPS Misc Networks Resilience SCIENCE Social network Social science Society Vizualization World

Handbook on cities and networks

Edited by Zachary P. Neal, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, US and Céline Rozenblat, Professor of Urban Geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment,Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Publication Date: 2021 ISBN: 978 1 78811 470 7 Extent: 672 pp

‘If you want to understand cities – the innovation and dynamism they generate and the way they sort and segregate people by class, race and other dimensions – you have to start by understanding that cities are networks. Zachary Neal and Céline Rozenblat have done all of us who care about cities a great service by pulling together the very best and brightest thinkers on cities and networks in this terrific volume.’
– Richard Florida, University of Toronto, US and author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis

This Handbook of Cities and Networks provides a cutting-edge overview of research on how economic, social and transportation networks affect processes both in and between cities. Exploring the ways in which cities connect and intertwine, it offers a varied set of collaborations, highlighting different theoretical, historical and methodological perspectives.

International contributions assess the state of the field of network analysis, presenting interdisciplinary insights that draw on theory from geography, economics, sociology, history, archaeology and psychology, and outlining methodological tools that include ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative approaches. Illustrating a framework for integrating the diversity of urban networks, the Handbook demonstrates that by exploring urban networks with different combinations of levels and scales, new insights and opportunities can emerge.

Featuring focused studies on specific regions and cities, this state-of-the-art Handbook is essential reading for scholars and researchers of urban studies and regional science, particularly those focusing on the transformation of cities as connected spaces through intracity and intercity networks. Its core theoretical insights will also benefit graduate students in urban studies and network analysis.

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Art Cities Resilience Vizualization

Resi-city: art, cities, resilience

Credits: resi-city.com

What is the meaning of a map? Is it an objective tool or a representation of values? “H. Mazurek invites us to compare the points of view of the geographer as opposed to the cartograph. The author argues that the first one should overcome a cartesian vision and engage in the construction of spaces where territoriality and human behavior are intrinsically linked. Through a critical approach of how maps should represent the true meaning of places and their historical scope, this publication reminds us that spaces are social constructions and indirectly questions the significance of humanitarian mapping. “

“The below “virtual” collage is inspired by PCdO Campos & I Paz study (12) on the mapping of Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro, BR. In January 2020, the worst floods registered since 1932 impacted dramatically this urban area. The map itself shows the flood occurrence of the Muriae river during the event. The study used highly skilled techniques based on fractal analysis investigating the (lack of) drainage performance and its impact on flooding cartography usage. Confronting the absolute objectivity of sophisticated measurements to the inherent subjectivity of human behavior translates here into a deconstruction-reconstruction process of the mapping. Itaperuna looks fragmented in three parts, but together with the river and its redesigned flooding, they constitute an indissociable whole and an integral part of the social space. All around, silhouettes are talking, lying down, dancing or listening on a background of graffiti, a way to recall the challenge of pedagogy when teaching to non-expert citizens the meaning of urban resilience.”

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