Urban Upgrading for Inclusion, Sustainability and Resilience in a time of Global Pandemics
the e-learning course Urban Upgrading for Inclusion, Sustainability and Resilience in a time of Global Pandemics. Learn about urban slums, policy approaches, and key principles for designing effective upgrading interventions. Support policy makers and urban practitioners in responding to the challenges of slums, especially during global pandemics. Scale up upgrading and improve future growth planning at the city level.
What you will learn
- Understand urban slums, their underlying social, economic, and spatial characteristic, how they emerge and consolidate, and their impacts to local communities and the city as a whole
- Analyze evolution of policy approaches to addressing urban slums under different contexts, what worked, what did not work, and why
- Review and apply key operational principles and instruments for designing an upgrading intervention, including planning, finance, infrastructure, land tenure, housing, social inclusion, and sustainability.
Program Overview
Unprecedented circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic have presented huge challenges to a third of the global urban population living in slums around the world. The e-learning course ?Urban Upgrading for Inclusion, Sustainability and Resilience in a time of Global Pandemics? aims at supporting policy makers and urban practitioners to better respond to the challenge of slums, especially in a time of global pandemics. The course focuses on the conceptual and operational aspects of designing, implementing and sustaining a slum upgrading intervention, while underscoring the main policy and programmatic approaches at city level for scaling up upgrading and better planning for future growth.
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