Urban Walkability: Streetscape Design for Berlin (July 25th to August 18th)-Optional German language course (July 11th to 22nd)-Optional Managing innovations and creating innovative business models course (July 11th to 22nd)Urban Walkability: Streetscape Design for Berlin encourages students to understand and analyze streets, both as places where most of our urban problems and shortcomings occur, and as places where they can be solved, to the benefit of communities. It addresses the negative impacts of rapid development, specifically concerning transportation, which impacts three main human development areas: (1) health, regarding diseases related to air pollutants, emissions and low levels of physical activity; (2) the environment, in terms of the excessive land demand of asphalt for motorized vehicles resulting in heat island effects and run-off water pollution, among other things and; (3) the economy, where the costs of avoidable disease rates, fuel consumption and many other negative urban outcomes are felt.The course offers students from all disciplines novel ways of:(1) evaluating urban neighborhood conditions for pedestrian environments (both walking and biking); (2) developing neighborhood-scale networks that foster healthy behaviors (e.g. healthy eating or positive social encounter) and; (3) proposing solutions that attend real community needs and problems in specific Berlin sites. The course is designed to deliver planning and design solutions that foster health promotion, achieve environmental gain and increase economic productivity by bringing into perspective the most advanced concepts and strategies from public health, urban planning and urban & architectural design. Furthermore, the course uses a range of mixed media, to train students in delivering evidence-based recommendations to all kinds of decision-makers involved in healthcare. The course will be delivered over four weeks.

Course leader
- Alvaro Valera Sosa (TU-Berlin)- Cor Wagenaar (TU-Delft)- Gran Lindahl (Chalmers University of Technology)- Katja Thorwarth (TU-Berlin)

Target group
This course is for all students who want to learn urban planning and design strategies that improve pedestrian environments and public spaces, and the wellbeing of communities as a consequence.

Course aim
Having taken this course, students will have learned skills useful in proposing and developing ideas that improve the public life of urban neighborhoods such as: Neighborhood environment evaluation considering data points in: oPublic health oUrban planning (focus on transportation) oUrban & Architectural Design Systematic research skills using oSecondary sources (computer-based review), and oPrimary sources (direct observations) Narrative techniques Transdisciplinary concept designing Group work and team building

Credits info
5 ECTS 5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) for the academic course. 7 ECTS if booked along with the optional Start German - language course. 8 ECTS if booked along with the optional Managing Innovations and Creating Innovative Business Models course

Fee info
EUR 1850: The fee includes: the Summer School academic program, transportation ticket and some extracurricular activities. Optional German language course not included (560 Euros). Optional Managing innovations and creating innovative business models course (920 Euros)



Scholarships
To be announced

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