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IS468

Sustainable Digital Cities

1 CreditsTerm 1

Description

This course will equip students with core knowledge of appreciating what it takes to plan, design, build and sustain digital (‘smart’) cities that are innovative, inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. By the end of this course, students will be able to appreciate the following 4 areas: Urban Challenges, Urban Sustainability, Design of ‘Smart’ Digital Cities and Commercialisation of selected digital city projects. There will be an introduction to how software can be used to provide solutions for smart city challenges.

Requisites

Prerequisites: None

Co-requisites: None

Anti-requisites: None

Attributes

Department: SCIS

Course Level: Undergraduate

Tracks: IS/T4BS: Smart-City Management & Technology Track

Areas: Business Options Digital Business Electives Econ Major Rel/Econ Options Grad Req - Dig Tech/Data Ana (Intake 2024 onwards) Grad Req - Sustainability (Intake 2024 onwards) IS Depth Electives Politics, Law & Economics Electives Smart-City Management & Tech Electives Social Sciences/PLE Major-related Sustainable Societies Electives Technology & Entrepreneurship Technology Studies Cluster

Learning Outcomes

•     Understand the key issues and challenges of living in big cities (urbanisation). •     Explain how city leaders and planners can create sustainable digital cities. •     Understand and know how to deploy smart sensors for electronic data collection •     Appreciate the processes and challenges to commercialise digital city solutions

Graduate Learning Outcomes

Disciplinary Knowledge, Multidisciplinary Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, Critical thinking & problem solving, Communication, Understanding of sustainability issues, Self-directed learning

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