Urban Studies Courses and Certifications

Beijing Forestry University

住区与社会研究

从住区形态与社会、文化、政策互动切入，分析城市化中的空间生产、社会不公与住区更新。

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Cultural impact of housing displacement gentrification

30 ratings at Coursera

Trace gentrification from its 1960s origins: weigh economic, social and racial explanations, compare international case studies, and examine how displacement is measured and resisted.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Museum of Modern Art

Reimagining Blackness and Architecture

76 ratings at Coursera

Architecture is a physical manifestation of power: analyze how Black architects, scholars, and artists reshape the built environment through hip-hop, fiction, textiles, and technology.

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

Late-Capitalist Architecture (Live Online)

40 ratings at CourseHorse

Delve into the rich intellectual legacy of Gershom Scholem.

• CourseHorse
• Self-Paced
• $355.00

Tenements, Co-ops, and Brownstones: Housing in New York City (Live Online)

34 ratings at CourseHorse

Examine the forces shaping New York City’s housing crisis through a historical and theoretical lens.

• CourseHorse
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• $335.00

Queer NYC: Before Stonewall (Live Online)

34 ratings at CourseHorse

Explore the rich and complex history of queer life in New York City, from the 19th century through the events leading up to Stonewall.

• CourseHorse
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• $335.00

The Suburbs: Selling the American Dream (Live Online)

34 ratings at CourseHorse

Examine the rise of suburbs and their profound impact on how Americans live, work, and connect.

• CourseHorse
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• $335.00

Urbanization and Development: Practice, Theory, and Policy

Examine how cities grow and are governed: modernist and Chicago School theories, urban informality in land and housing, master planning, global cities, gentrification, and e-governance.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Population and Urbanization

Examine population trends and the historical development of cities, and explain how urbanization shapes the structure and experience of social life today.

• Coursera
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Urban Food Systems

23 ratings at edX

Learn which factors shape food systems in the context of urban growth and land-use patterns. You will learn about food accessibility, food choice, foodsheds, food safety, urban agriculture, urban food

• edX
• 5 weeks, 5-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Building Inclusive Cities: Tackling Urban Inequality and Segregation

5 ratings at edX

Discover how urban design can help tackle inequality and socio-economic segregation in cities. Learn how to use analytical tools to measure these two phenomena and make urban design part of the soluti

• edX
• 7 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

New Science of Cities | 新城市科学

The new urban science course focuses on technology and cities ( TECH+CITY ). It is not only the new " urban science " , that is, the use of new data, new methods and new technologies to study classic

• edX
• 11 weeks, 4-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Four Facets of Contemporary Japanese Architecture: City

Learn the history, ideas, and concepts behind contemporary Japanese architecture through one facet of Japanese architecture, city.

• edX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The problem with crime

19 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, The problem with crime, looks at the issues of order and disorder. Can the way these issues are represented change your view of a city? Taking Glasgow as an example, you will look...

• OpenLearn
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

11 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, 'Problem' populations, 'problem' places, looks deeper into the entanglements of welfare, crime and society. It encourages you to think through these entanglements through a focus ...

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate