Urban Design Courses and Certifications

城乡环境设计方法与研究

以城市与乡村环境为对象，结合历史、生态与文化案例，学习环境设计的理论、方法和实践。

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

城乡环境设计方法与研究

系统学习城市与乡村环境设计的理论、方法与实践，聚焦历史遗产、生态城市、传统村落保护及多民族乡村空间。

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

การออกแบบสิ่งแวดล้อมเพื่อเราทุกคน | 도시와 환경디자인 | Environmental Design for Everyone

สำรวจหลักการออกแบบสิ่งแวดล้อมผ่านความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างพื้นที่ เวลา มนุษย์ วัฒนธรรม และการพัฒนาพื้นที่อย่างยั่งยืน

• ThaiMOOC
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Sustainable Neighborhoods

93 ratings at Coursera

Evaluate what makes a neighborhood sustainable: natural context, walkable schools and open space, housing density, transit orientation, form-based zoning, and case studies from Houston, San Antonio, and Chattanooga.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

EDUCBA

Apply Urban Scale Mapping Techniques Using SketchUp

Build urban-scale 3D base maps from survey data: prepare layered AutoCAD drawings, apply efficient SketchUp massing techniques, and present outcomes in visually structured presentations.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

City Visions: Past and Future

Examine the city through social science and design theory: urban history, the city as social and legal concept, urban utopias, territorial scales, and future design visions.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Pedestrian Mobility in Cities

Learn to design, evaluate, and advocate for walkable cities: analyze pedestrian networks, identify barriers to safe access, and build strategies linking mobility to health, equity, and emissions.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Housing and Cities

24 ratings at edX

Trace key moments of European urban housing history, analyzing ordinary housing types of different social classes and how modern architecture reinterprets these domestic models.

• edX
• 10 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

Inclusive and Sustainable Cities

Explore how urban design and housing strategies tackle inequality, segregation and affordable housing shortages, using analytical tools to advance SDG 11 in Global North and South cities.

• edX
• 19 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $456.00
• 3 courses

Career Certificate

Housing Design for All

Learn innovative design strategies and practical approaches to create sustainable, inclusive and adequate housing solutions that respond to global challenges.

• edX
• 12 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $304.00
• 2 courses

Groundscape Architecture Design Lab, re-thinking cities underground

We simply cannot be satisfied with only developing the city on top of the city. We must also build the city under the city.

• edX
• 11 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Groundscape Architecture Lab. Carpark Futures

A course dedicated to the architecture of contemporary parking infrastructures. By Dominique Perrault in partnership with Indigo Group, world leader in parking solutions.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Nature in the city: turning knowledge into urban forestry practice

Study urban forestry from every angle: its history, planning and design of urban forests, forest ecology, governance and community engagement, and entrepreneurship.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 50 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Sustainable building design for tropical climates: integrating design of buildings and technology systems

Design climate responsive buildings for tropical climates: technical plants, principles of urban design, and good practices suited to the East African Community.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 4 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Designing Urban Regeneration. An updated glossary of plural public spaces

Learn the design principles and terminology of plural urban transformations through an updated glossary for regenerating public spaces.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 2 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate