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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

JK

Oct 28, 2020

Highly productive and knowledgeable course that allows students, engineers, project managers and even policy makers to realize and assess the transition of local cities as smart cities.

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 Fabio G

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Jul 6, 2017

Good information and approach on smart cities with lessons and people really involved on Smart Cities

By Hashim M A

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Nov 13, 2019

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

By Pierre C

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Aug 18, 2017

Fundamental for those who want to play a role int he future, very exciting and not dogmatic ! Thanks

By Gontse K

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Jun 24, 2017

A great course! very informational and useful to use on the current activities happening in cities.

By Hitoshma C

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Sep 6, 2018

Really well structured course. Only rating it 4 because I hoped for a longer learning program.

By Amin M

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Feb 20, 2025

This was a very challenging course but somehow I was able to work through it and did alright.

By Manaswee P

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Oct 6, 2021

I am glad to complete the course of smart cities and management of urban infrastructures

By Lee E

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Sep 22, 2017

Good for beginner, but a little bit too informative, which makes the course boring.

By Nicolas C

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Nov 24, 2017

Very good MOOC. I would have appreciated to have more concrete examples and cases

By Mohit C

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Oct 20, 2017

Very well organized. Logical and informative. I liked the guest speakers as well.

By Neeraj K T

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Aug 11, 2019

It was great experience and great learning. Its worth spending time and money.

By Keerthi H K

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Aug 11, 2023

this is the good course I will enjoy and learn thank you for this course

By raj v

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Jul 25, 2024

Great Course, it was very interesting to learn form the instructors.

By Emilio C

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May 2, 2020

It is a very good option to have a first approach to Smart Cities.

By Jovana V

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Mar 11, 2019

The course show some really interesting points about smart cities.

By Nieves C

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Feb 12, 2018

Very interesting. A lot of information and well prepared.

By PATIL K P

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Oct 23, 2019

New technologies for digitalization to make city smart.

By Julia K

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Oct 2, 2017

Very interesting course, although I preferred part 1.

By Yi Y

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Apr 5, 2020

Sometimes the contents/quiz can be too technical.

By Evangelia P

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Apr 17, 2018

Great lesson. Gives an overview pn the subject.

By Mahmoud B T

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Jan 24, 2018

High quality course/instructor/interviewees

By Najhely P C O

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Jul 3, 2021

The explanations should be more dinamic.

By Pulkit H

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May 5, 2020

It was an amazing learning experience.

By RAVINDER

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May 1, 2020

Excellent learning and Course content.

By Md. N H

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Jul 13, 2020

Good course. The exam were so hard,