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Designing for the Public Good: Dutch Urbanism
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
  • Start Date: 07 Mar, 2018
  • Self-Paced
  • Study Content: Videos


Through a unique Dutch approach learn how to design landscapes and cities in response to social and environmental challenges.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: 50.00 USD
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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and Edx partnership.

Are you an urban planner, designer, policy maker or involved or interested in the creation of good living environments?


This course will broaden your scope and diversify your take on the field of urban planning and design. We will focus on a unique Dutch approach and analyze how it can help those involved with urban planning and design to improve the physical environment in relation to the public good it serves, including safety, wellbeing, sustainability and even beauty.


You will learn some of the basic traits of Dutch Urbanism, including its:



  • contextual approach;

  • balance between research and design;

  • simultaneous working on multiple scale levels.


You will practice with basic techniques in spatial analysis and design pertaining to these points. You will also carry out these activities in your own domestic environment.


This course is taught by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU-Delft, ranked no. 4 in Architecture/Built Environment on the QS World University Rankings (2016).


All the material in this course is presented at entry level. But since the course has an integral perspective, combining planning and design aspects, it can still be relevant for trained professionals who feel they lack experience in either field.


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The course materials of this course are Copyright Delft University of Technology and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA) 4.0 International License.

Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Delft University of Technology is the largest and oldest technological university in the Netherlands. Our research is inspired by the desire to increase fundamental understanding, as well as by societal challenges. We encourage our students to be independent thinkers so they will become engineers capable of solving complex problems. Our students have chosen Delft University of Technology because of our reputation for quality education and research.

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with Edx.

You may be able to download course materials after enrolling in this course. If not, all of the necessary course materials provided by the course instructor will be available on the provider's course page.
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