RMIT - Ethical Cities: Shaping the Future of Your City

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Ethical Cities: Shaping the Future of Your City
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Duration	5 weeks
Total fee	₹2,763
Mode of learning	Online
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Credential	Certificate

Ethical Cities: Shaping the Future of Your City
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Duration 5 weeks
Weekly study 2 hours
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Who runs your city? What makes your city liveable? Using stories from cities around the world, this course will introduce you to the importance of ethics in civic leadership, planning, and business, and citizen engagement.
On the course you'll look in depth at the challenges facing cities - considering your own city, or the one nearest you. We'll ask you to share your stories so you can connect with other learners and compare your experiences in order to recognize and understand the problems cities face. You will explore the power of various entities in your city and examine how they help solve or exacerbate local problems.
You will delve into the notion of the ethical city and how it adds value to professionals and citizens - especially in terms of how it may help to improve the quality of urban life. In doing this you will also get a sense of the broader context of issues like social justice, corporate responsibility and ethical practice at the city level.
Through the course we'll introduce a range of new ideas, tools and techniques (including practical examples, video stories, expert interviews and other resources) to inspire you to:
Together we will examine alternatives to 'business as usual' practices that are reshaping the dominant urban agendas in more ethical directions.
RMIT is a global university, and world leader in terms of its research and education around the built environment. RMIT hosts the UN Global Compact Cities Programe and many of our educators have first hand experience in urban and environmental planning and social change including in Europe, Australia and Japan.