Preparation Course for Certified Urban Designer (CUD)
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Introduction
Objective
Who should attend
With urban populations rising, local governments, public service agencies, and urban utilities face increasing demand for more excellent reliability, safety, affordability, and resiliency of ageing urban infrastructure systems.
These systems must be continuously adapted and upgraded (often with technology-driven solutions) to efficiently support essential public services, urban development, and economic growth. Urban planners lay the foundation for our everyday lives.
This course of Certified Urban Design (CUD) shall provide an understanding of designing tailor-making urban infrastructure towards environmental sustainability and analyzing public needs, thus shaping our cities and creating a comfortable, safer, convenient, and livable environment.
This course is a preparation course, and designed to equip you with the necessary skills and knowledge to prepare for the certification, should you choose to pursue it in the future
Course Outline
3D Design, Creativity and Critical Insight
- Deconstruct and reconstruct (how to take apart and recreate designs or
- problems)
- Generate creative solutions (i.e., thinking in ways not yet apparent)
- Using professional judgment to make decisions based on incomplete information
- Integrating broader critical and imaginative thinking into logistical (physical)
- hypothesis
- Understanding diverse perspectives and values
