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
After successful completion of this course you would be able to :
- Practical exam training
- Explanation through case studies
- Solving previous years exam questions
- Interact with fellow students and the instructor, who is on hand to give advice and promptly respond to questions in the discussion forums.
The course of certified urban design is ideal for:
- Any planning professional with a valid membership in the AICP and at least eight years of urban design experience can potentially be a candidate for CUD certification.
- Becoming certified requires completing three short essay questions demonstrating your knowledge and competence, and sitting for the CUD exam.