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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

RO

Dec 4, 2024

The course is very informative yet simple. It helped me to understand core concepts of Smart city and strategies to transform a city into Smart one. I highly recommend the course.

RH

Mar 8, 2020

It was a great and learning experience.. The whole curriculum was designed so systematically and kept me engrossed..Thoroughly learnt and the paved a new path for me. Thanks Coursera!

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By Bruno T

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Apr 30, 2021

Muy buen curso, aprendí muchisimo y lo mejor es que es a la hora que yo desee

By Gregory G

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Jul 3, 2020

Great course. Very interest concepts and material, well presented. Thank you.

By Jonah W

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May 25, 2020

Very insightful course as I have a keen interest in cities and sustainability

By Watson C S

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Dec 2, 2019

Really valuable but a bit elemental information. The tests need to be harder.

By luis a q c

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Apr 21, 2021

Uno de los mejores cursos donde puedes analizar las infraestructuras urbanas

By Ridya N a

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Nov 12, 2025

it changed my life now like the cities even i am smart, thank you coursera

By Lisandro I A

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Jul 1, 2021

Excellent as an introductory step toward the understanding of smart cities

By Chandulal R

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Sep 17, 2017

very much useful for experienced professionals in real time implementation

By Joydeep P

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Apr 1, 2017

Basics covered very well. It gave me an approach to smart city development

By Luis A L L

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Apr 28, 2021

I learned a lot in this course and I know it will serve me in the future.

By Eric L

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Feb 24, 2018

I reall appreciated the quality of this course. Many thanks to th authors

By Deleted A

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May 20, 2018

This course is full of knowledge. It can be helpful to plan a smart city

By Mukhtar A A K

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Jun 6, 2020

Very interesting MOOC. Thank you for all instructors for their efforts.

By Luca M

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Jul 23, 2017

Really interesting course, would like to follow more about this topic.

By Boris B

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Jan 3, 2018

Exellent course, actual and wide view for city solutions. Thank you.

By Charles B

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Nov 19, 2019

Excellent course, looking forward to get further education from you

By Juan P L V

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Oct 14, 2019

Very interesting to know the trends and challenges of Smart Cities.

By Joanne H

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Sep 21, 2018

Well done and relevant! Good overview and also appropriate depth.

By ALESSANDRA E M

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Aug 9, 2017

Excellent course! Special congratulations to Prof. Mathias Finger.

By Vikram B

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Feb 28, 2017

Very interesting course detailing Smart Cities and its management.

By Md. F R

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Jul 6, 2023

Excellent Course and Module to much professional practice based.

By KONATE N

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Mar 18, 2022

Felicitation pour ces efforts afin d'amener a bien ce cours.

By Ramkumar S

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Jan 23, 2019

Excellent course.

Very concise and thorough. Great materials.

By Shafique A

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Jan 23, 2019

My one of the best learning experience so far. Thanks a lot

By Mohammadreza K

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Apr 20, 2018

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