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.

After successful completion of this course, you will 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 the following:

• Environment professionals
• Urban designers, for example, in management positions,
• Professionals who need to understand the urban design profession and work requirements.
• Principal, director or other management role overseeing urban design projects in architectural, landscape, planning or multi-disciplinary practices
• Design managers or team leaders in a local authority
• Development Managers
• Project managers