Sign up now for the next edition of our popular MOOC 'Development and Planning in African Cities'
January 2019
Next week (Monday 21st January), we’re relaunching our free, popular online course (MOOC) on Development and Planning in African Cities and invite you to register for it. The course runs for 4-weeks, is open to all, free of charge and involves about 3 hours of study time per week. It is produced by the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL and the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre, Njala University.
This follows the successful first edition of the course ran in 2018. If you started but ran out of time to finish the course, you are welcome to sign up again this time around. And if you completed the course already yourself, please do share this with any colleagues who may be interested.
You can register, find the course trailer and get more information on the FutureLearn platform which hosts the course: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/african-cities
If you have no internet access, or a laptop/PC, you can either visit SLURC at 63 Upper Brook Street, Freetown to access the course on a laptop in the office, or you can get all course materials on a USB memory stick to take away. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to arrange a time to visit or would need such a USB stick.
The online course will explore African cities through the lenses of spatial justice and social diversity, challenging myths and assumptions about urban development and demonstrating how different processes interact and shape the development of a city.
It is divided into four sections:
- Introduction to development and planning in African cities,
- Urban land & informalities
- Governance planning
- Urban risk, vulnerabilities and Infrastructure.
The course will allow you to directly interact with many urban professionals, civil servants, and civil society leaders from across Africa and the world.
The course is a work-in-progress and was developed by the lead educators Andrea Rigon and Joseph Macarthy and produced with the support of Alexander Stone and Joanna Stroud.
Free upgrade opportunity
If you are from a non-OECD country, we are offering you full sponsorship to upgrade for free. This will get you a certificate upon completion of the course, as well as unlimited future access to all course materials.
This follows the successful first edition of the course ran in 2018. If you started but ran out of time to finish the course, you are welcome to sign up again this time around. And if you completed the course already yourself, please do share this with any colleagues who may be interested.
You can register, find the course trailer and get more information on the FutureLearn platform which hosts the course: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/african-cities
If you have no internet access, or a laptop/PC, you can either visit SLURC at 63 Upper Brook Street, Freetown to access the course on a laptop in the office, or you can get all course materials on a USB memory stick to take away. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to arrange a time to visit or would need such a USB stick.
The online course will explore African cities through the lenses of spatial justice and social diversity, challenging myths and assumptions about urban development and demonstrating how different processes interact and shape the development of a city.
It is divided into four sections:
- Introduction to development and planning in African cities,
- Urban land & informalities
- Governance planning
- Urban risk, vulnerabilities and Infrastructure.
The course will allow you to directly interact with many urban professionals, civil servants, and civil society leaders from across Africa and the world.
The course is a work-in-progress and was developed by the lead educators Andrea Rigon and Joseph Macarthy and produced with the support of Alexander Stone and Joanna Stroud.
Free upgrade opportunity
If you are from a non-OECD country, we are offering you full sponsorship to upgrade for free. This will get you a certificate upon completion of the course, as well as unlimited future access to all course materials.