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URBPLAN 734 : Urban Planning and Governance

Postgraduate course

Project description

This course aims to familiarise the students with the emerging smart technologies in urban planning, urban policy-making and urban design to address the problems and questions encountered in urban planning, design and policy-making contexts. This course provides an understanding of the Revolution 4.0, Smart City, and the ethical implications of Big Data for urban planning and design. The smart technologies increasingly influence the way we understand, govern, plan and design our cities, and how we engage people in the process of decision-making. The increasing usage of cyber networks, Internet Of Things (IOTs), sensors and mobile smart technologies provides the new approaches to address the challenges that our cities face. This course provides a critical understanding of the capacities of these new technologies on the residents� everyday life in general, and the limitations and the ethical implications for the use of �Big Data and Smart Technologies� in cities.

Year 2022

Location New Zealand

Organization University of Auckland

Project aims

Project outcome

By the end of this course, students will be able to: Develop To develop an understanding of the meaning of the �Revolution 4.0� and how this industrial revolution is significantly transforming our cities (Capability 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3) Familiarise To familiarise students with the pervasive term of �Smart City� and its various implications on urban planning and design in the global and local contexts Provide To provide an understanding of �E-governance� and �Citizen-sensing� and their impacts on urban planning and design Provide To provide a good understanding of �Autonomous Shared Mobility� and its different models as well as their impacts on urban planning and design Familiarise To familiarise the students with �Society of Control�, �Governmentality�, �Smartmentality� and the ethics of Big Data learn about the legislations and Acts to protect privacy of the residents in New Zealand and the global context.