RMIT University
- Start Date: 19 Sep, 2022
- 3 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Explore how to design a green corridor to promote clean air and thermal comfort.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Understand how green corridors can reduce air pollution
Green corridors can be key in supporting health and liveability in urban environments. Made up of connected linear parks and small-scale nature interventions, urban green corridors can include networked city areas with a high concentration of vegetation, as well as spaces for walking and cycling.
On this three-week course, you’ll explore the development of green areas in urban environments. You’ll discover how these areas enable safe mobility away from vehicles and air pollution while supporting outdoor exercise and everyday connections with nature.
By the end, you’ll have a sound understanding of how green corridors promote clean air and support citizen health and wellbeing.
Explore the considerations for designing a green corridor
You’ll discover the considerations associated with the constructed and natural elements in a green corridor. This will include developing an understanding of how green and grey elements affect temperature and air pollution.
Understand the basics of plant biology
To ensure you comprehend the fundamental environmental processes behind green corridors, you’ll cover the basics of plant biology.
This knowledge will help you develop the tools for decision-making, such as how to select plants, how to design to work with both constructed and natural elements, and the principles for planning decisions in response to a range of pressures.
Explore case studies from the built environment
To aid your understanding throughout the course, you’ll explore case studies and hear from industry experts. You’ll also be encouraged to explore a local corridor to cement your knowledge.
By the end of the course, you’ll understand how the corridor provides connections for people’s mobility, for ecology, and for the surrounding landscape.
This course is designed for professionals working in or interested in urban mobility and sustainable urban development.
You could be either from the private or public sector.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
RMIT University
RMIT is a global university of technology, design and enterprise specialising in art and design; architecture and the built environment; engineering; computer science; and business and management studies.
One of Australia’s original tertiary institutions, RMIT University has over 80,000 students (including 12,000 at postgraduate level) who are undertaking professional and vocational education, applied research, and industry and community engagement.
RMIT has a unique approach to meeting the challenge of being ready for life and work: it offers an education that is deeply grounded in ideas and cross-disciplinary understanding, applied through innovative, enterprising practice to solving problems and meeting the needs of its community.
RMIT’s goal is to offer life-changing experiences, and to shape the world with the talent, knowledge and learning capability that it shares.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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