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September 27, 2017

Urban Water Chains and Systems

This set contains 4 short videos on urban water chains and systems. Water is a basic, universal need. In this set of materials, you will learn what an urban water chain and urban water system contain. The urban water chain refers to drinking water provision and sanitation, along with necessary infrastructure. The urban water system expands upon the water chain to include five types of urban water: surface water, groundwater, drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater. Within an urban water chain and system, stakeholders manage and modify the water cycle, giving opportunity for citizens to co-create a safe and healthy living environment. Furthermore, you can learn about how politicians and stakeholders can think about long-term decision making and governance within usually short election cycles. These videos and materials will give you a baseline understanding of how sustainable solutions to water-related problems are co-created with citizens. These concepts can be applied to specific case studies and various local contexts around the world. Finally, you can apply this knowledge in a role-playing game where you attempt to set up a drinking water management system and decide between whether to organize the drink water supply as a public or private entity.

Claudia Rot, Martine Rutten

June 6, 2021

RElastiCity: An urban resilience game

Games are safe environments where players can experiment freely with complex and uncertain decisions. RElastiCity is a game about urban resilience. In the game, the players are responsible for the resilience of a city, they have to protect the city against stresses and adapt the city to become more resilient. In this way, the players experience the choices that have to be made and the consequences of the choices. In this version of the game, a fictional city is simulated, a city that is similar to an average Western-European (Dutch) city. It is also possible to customize the game to any other city in the world. In the files you can find a facilitator manual for the teachers about how to use the game and how to prepare. Second you find the rulebook, which explains the rules in detail and can be given to the players (in principle they can play without a facilitator). And you find the materials for the game (General materials A3Format, general materials A4format, Materials set built environment, energy, urban water and transport). For the background of the content of the game, you can use the systems analysis report). Besides the basic game that can be printed, you can also develop your own content. In the facilitator manual you can find some ideas and you can use the blank_materials set to develop new cards. Learning Objectives After playing the game, the participants: Understand different perspectives of resilience and how they influence key performance indicators and decision making Experience the impact of disasters on the environment of the system Experience the consequences of different measures on disasters Experience the consequences of different measures on other systems (counter intuitive effects): a. effect of measure during implementation and under normal conditions, b. effect of measure to protect one disaster on effects when another disaster happens Experience how to organize disaster prevention and mitigation. The game is primarily developed as an introduction for engineering students (in higher education) to the topic of resilience. This can be part of a course about resilience or related to a resilience topic within a course. As the focus is engineering, the content of the game is more focused on the engineering challenges and less on the societal issues. In a broader perspective, the game can also be used for professional training, in resilience research projects or in any other interested group of players. The content of the game can be adapted to make a closer fit with the city or area of interest. More information about the use and adaptation of the game can be found in the facilitator manual. Credits: this game was developed by the TU Delft gamelab (website: https://seriousgaming.tudelft.nl/).

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Geertje Bekebrede, Gracia Bovenberg-Murris, Linda van Veen, Carissa Champlin

November 8, 2021

Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges

Learn about today's urban challenges focusing on developing countries, referred to as the Global South. We will debate the benefits associated with three different themes, going beyond traditional urban strategies and policies: Spatial justice - Having fair, inclusive and healthy urban contexts is one of the greatest challenges of cities in emerging economies. Housing Provision and Management - Increasing demand in the Global South calls for alternative approaches in housing provision and management. Sustainable Urban Transitions - In order to transition from our current (unsustainable) system towards a fair and sustainable future we need to pay attention to the social, economic, and cultural context. In the course, we will address questions such as: Is the 'just city' framework applicable to cities with extreme socio-economic inequality? Can community-led housing initiatives provide effective solutions for households in need? How can the transition towards an environmentally sustainable future also be socially just? In this architecture and urban planning course, academic urban planning expertise from TU Delft is used to formulate possible answers to these questions, and is applied in a range of challenging case studies from Latin America, MENA region, Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, , among others. This course offers you a new perspective to understand and analyse the urban challenges of the Global South. Through a combination of short theoretical lessons, presentation of case studies, testimonies from practitioners and practical assignments you will also learn how to develop a critical perspective about your own urban environment and how to translate this knowledge into analytical tools and innovative urban solutions.

Various Experts

January 2, 2021

Urban Heat Island Effect

Natalie Theeuwes explains the Urban Heat Island effect and the variables that influence it. LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Explain shocks and stresses on critical services and infrastructures (CSIs) of STE systems resulting from a range of disastrous events. DURATION: 1 short video (~7 min long)

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Natalie Theeuwes

January 2, 2021

How Policies and Governance Influence Urban Space

In this video, Yawei Chen uses the development of three cities in the Greater Pearl River Delta region in China (Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou) to illustrate the interaction between Policy, Governance and Urban Growth. Each city has a distinctive development path following its own specific context and governance approach. LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Understand and apply tools and methods for analyzing complex governance arrangements and for facilitating meaningful engagement in a multi-actor context. DURATION: 1 short video (~16 min long)

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Yawei Chen

August 21, 2021

Co-creation of Sustainable Cities

This set contains a series of 6 short (<15 min web lectures on ' Co-creation of Sustainable Cities' (see https://online-learning.tudelft.nl/courses/citizens-co-creating-sustainable-cities/) Around the world, major challenges of our time such as population growth and climate change are being addressed in cities. Here, citizens play an important role together with governments, companies, NGOs and researchers in creating social, technological and political innovations for achieving sustainability and resilience. Citizens can be co-creators of sustainable cities when they can engage in city politics or in the design of the urban environment and its technologies and infrastructure. In addition, citizens influence and are influenced by the technologies and systems that they use every day. Sustainability is thus a result of the interplay between technology, policy and people’s daily lives. Understanding this interplay is essential for creating sustainable cities. This set provides an overview of the dynamics of co-creation for sustainable cities worldwide. In different contexts, different forms of co-creation are preferred in specific urban systems. These materials will provide you with an understanding needed to investigate how water, waste, energy, air, food, mobility, and green spaces have a vast effect on city life. Additionally, the videos will teach you about the dynamics of co-creation and the key principles of citizens interacting with service providing companies, technology and infrastructure developers, policy makers and researchers. You will gain an understanding of major types of co-creation and their interdependence with their socio-technical and political contexts. You will become equipped to indicate how you can use co-creation to develop innovative technologies, policy arrangements or social practices for a sustainable city in your own community. You will demonstrate this by developing an action plan, research proposal or project idea. Basic knowledge of sustainability in urban settings, urban environmental technology and urban management is assumed. These materials relate to the collection "Governance and Institutional Arrangements of Complex STE Systems."

Gert Spaargaren et al

October 16, 2017

Introduction to the Urban Water System in China

In this module, Dr. Haifeng Jia discusses what challenges and urban water management solutions exist in Chinese Cities. LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Explain shocks and stresses on critical services and infrastructures (CSIs) of STE systems resulting from a range of disastrous events. DURATION: 1 short video (~ 6 min long)

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Haifeng Jia

February 19, 2024

How Real Estate Affects our Environment, Health and Prosperity

Beyond the Classroom lecture at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) featuring professor Nils Kok on "How buildings affect our Environment, Health and Prosperity." Key Takeaways: The air we breathe, especially indoors, matters more than we think. High indoor CO2 levels can knock off 20% from your test scores and have a negative impact on your mental well-being. Real estate industry contributes a whopping 39% of global carbon emissions -- Real estate touches almost every part of our lives; Whether you're still studying, (want to) work in finance, real estate, or a completely different field. We spend 87% of our time indoors, but most of us do not realize that the quality of the buildings impacts the quality of how we spend our time. Our environment greatly influences our physical/mental health and productivity. However, this influence goes beyond just impacting our direct environment. Responsible for 71% of electricity consumption and 39% of global carbon emissions, real estate plays a critical but often overlooked part in the debate on slowing climate change and reducing energy dependence. -- This lecture was given by Dr. Nils Kok, Professor in Real Estate Finance at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, the Netherlands. His research interests range from urban economics to institutional real estate investments, with a strong focus on the economics of energy efficiency and sustainability in the real estate sector. -- This lecture series aims to bring academia beyond the boundaries of traditional classrooms. This series, organised by Maastricht University School of Business Economics (SBE), invites our esteemed professors to share their expertise on a wide range of timely and thought-provoking topics, from the banking crisis to sustainable supply chains to the future of service robots. In doing so, our goal is to provide a forum where the extended SBE community can learn from experts in their field and engage in inspiring discussions.

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Nils Kok

January 28, 2021

Resilience in Delta Cities

Resilience in the context of urbanizing delta cities refers to urban planning and design, which should integrate and balance diverse values of water. It is essential to develop resilience thinking with the understanding of history and the local context. This lecture demonstrates how a resilient urban system worked in ancient China and its transitions with an empirical study. Future planning strategies should not only integrate different values of water for a robust economy, a vital society, and a livable environment, but also deal with the changing contexts and great uncertainties. DURATION: 1 short video (~7 min long)

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YuTing Tai

October 31, 2024

Urban Renewal: How Can Everyone Benefit? | Radboud Reflects Lecture by Ronald Sundstrom, Minouche Besters and Arnoud Lagendijk

As trendy cafés, expensive apartments and wealthy newcomers move into poor neighbourhoods, residents with lower incomes are often pushed out. This process is known as gentrification. How does gentrification happen? Why is it a problem? And how can we upgrade neighbourhoods and cities, without excluding people with lower incomes? Learn from political philosopher Ronald Sundstrom, sociologist Arnoud Lagendijk and urban developer Minouche Besters about developing the city in a fair way. Urban Renewal: How Can Everyone Benefit? | Lecture and conversation with philosopher Ronald Sundstrom, urban developer Minouche Besters and social geographer Arnoud Lagendijk | Thursday 31 October 2024 | 20.00 – 21.30 hrs | NYMA makersplaats

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Ronald Sundstrom, Minouche Besters, Arnoud Lagendijk