This course offers a comprehensive exploration of the main contemporary challenges facing cities, addressing urban planning and design processes from a multi-scalar, critical, and sustainable perspective. With a focus on quality of life, spatial equity, and urban resilience, it enables participants to understand how urban spaces must respond to the social, environmental, and technological transformations of our time, promoting a more inclusive, livable, and democratic city. Participants will be guided by key theoretical currents in urbanism, case studies, and innovative approaches, using a theoretical-practical methodology that will allow them to interpret the city as a complex and dynamic system.
• Architects, urban planners, designers, engineers, geographers and professionals interested in sustainable urban planning and development.
• Public officials from municipalities and regional governments seeking to improve the quality of urban life through a sustainable and comprehensive approach.
• Consultants and researchers seeking to update or deepen their knowledge in sustainable urban planning and design.
• Academic background in Architecture, Urban Planning, Engineering, Design or other related fields.
• Interest in urban issues, sustainability, planning and public space.
• Advanced technical software skills are not required, although basic knowledge of graphic representation tools will be valued.
Participants who successfully complete the program will have developed professional skills to:
• Recognize the theoretical and conceptual foundations of urban planning and design.
• Understand the multi-scalar functioning of the city and its contemporary urban processes.
• Analyze and understand the social, environmental, and economic dynamics that affect the urban territory.
• Understand urban planning instruments and their uses.
• Evaluate contemporary approaches to sustainable urban planning and design in the Latin American and global context.
• To encourage a critical perspective on city models and urban transformation mechanisms.
• Reflect on the role of citizen participation and social inclusion in the design of urban space.