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Urban Systems

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    Upon completion of the course students should be able to • Recognize the main components of engineering cities (i.e. the water sector, the transportation sector, digitalization..etc.) • Understand the complexity of engineering and the need for interdisciplinary skill set to address the complex challenges. • Identify the actors contributing to the urban engineering of cities and . neighborhoods • Assess the integration of (effective) engineering elements in neighborhoods • Articulate basic designs of infrastructure planning as well as their impact on the environment, public health and safety • Conduct research and collect data from different sources: field work internet, interviews,…etc. • Work in teams.
  • Course Goals
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    The course previews all basic services and utilities including electricity, gas, water supplies, sewage systems, solid waste disposal, storm networks and telecommunication, in addition it introduces mobility and transportation planning: Networks, Modes, OD matrices, roads and highway classification, streets’ hierarchy, design control and criteria, roads cross section elements, horizontal and vertical alignment, types of intersections. Students should articulate basic designs of infrastructure planning as well as their impact on the environment, public health and safety
  • Arabic Description

    The course previews all basic services and utilities including electricity, gas, water supplies, sewage systems, solid waste disposal, storm networks and telecommunication, in addition it introduces mobility and transportation planning: Networks, Modes, OD matrices, roads and highway classification, streets’ hierarchy, design control and criteria, roads cross section elements, horizontal and vertical alignment, types of intersections. Students should articulate basic designs of infrastructure planning as well as their impact on the environment, public health and safety
  • Department
    Urban Planning
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 20% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 20% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • Suggested reference include:
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  • • Derrible, S., 2019. Urban engineering for sustainability. MIT Press.
  • • Georgiou, M., 2022. Sustainable and innovative mobility in megacities (Master's thesis, Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς).
  • • Hendawy, M., 2019. Connecting Urban Policy Making and Implementation: Case of Maspero, Cairo, Egypt. IUSD.
  • • Hussin, H., Osama, A., El-Dorghamy, A. and Abdellatif, M.M., 2021. Towards an integrated mobility system: The first and last mile solutions in developing countries; the case study of New Cairo. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 12, p.100469.
  • • Jensenius, A. (2012). Disciplinarities: intra, cross, multi, inter, trans. ARJ, Retrieved January 26, 2023, from http://www.arj.no/2012/03/12/disciplinarities-2/
  • • Julien Carbonnell “SMART-CITY: Stakeholders roles and needs.” 2019, medium.com.
  • • Kitchin, R. (2014). Making sense of smart cities: addressing present shortcomings. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2015, p. 131–136, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsu027
  • • Luusua, A., Ylipulli, J., Foth, M. and Aurigi, A., 2022. Urban AI: understanding the emerging role of artificial intelligence in smart cities. AI & society, pp.1-6. - Rozenblat Céline Denise Pumain and Velásquez M Elkin. 2018. International and Transnational Perspectives on Urban Systems. Singapore: Springer. - Rozenblat Céline Denise Pumain and Velásquez M Elkin. 2018. International and Transnational Perspectives on Urban Systems. Singapore: Springer. .