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Launch of new edition of our succesful MOOC on development and planning in African Cities
18 May 2020
Along with Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre and Njala University, we are excited to be launching a new edition of our highly successful free online course (MOOC) on Development and Planning in African Cities.
The 4-week聽course will start on聽June 22, is聽open to all聽and聽free of charge,聽and involves about 3 hours of study time per week.
You can register for it,聽find the course trailer聽and聽get more information on the Future Learn platform which hosts the course:聽
The online course will explore African cities through the lenses of spatial justice聽and聽social diversity, challenging myths聽and聽assumptions about urban聽development聽and聽demonstrating how different processes interact聽and聽shape the聽development聽of a city, using the case study of Freetown.
It covers the following themes: urban land, informalities,聽governance, participatory聽planning,聽urban risk, vulnerabilities & infrastructure.
The course will allow participants to directly interact with many urban professionals, civil servants,聽and聽civil society leaders from across Africa聽and聽the world.
The course聽was developed by the lead educators聽Andrea Rigon聽and聽Joseph Macarthy聽and聽produced with the support of聽Alexander Stone聽and聽Joanna Stroud. The course includes contributions from some of the best scholars in the field as well as聽the residents of Freetown. The course聽follows a face-to-face executive programme with the same contents delivered to Sierra Leone civil servants, academics, civil society leaders聽and聽urban professionals.
This course is also the basis for a more ambitious project of opening an MSc in Development and Planning in Africa Cities ran by the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre at Njala University, with the support of the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, which we aim to launch in 2021.
We would be grateful if you could share this information聽and聽spread the word about the online course so as many people as possible聽can benefit from it!