Course Content

This course intrigues students on challenges of fast-growing megacities in the ASEAN region: poverty and defensible life space; traffic congestion; air quality, water supply, purification and conservation; wastewater treatment; municipal solid waste management; and guarantees for citizen security. Students are introduced to the governance and technical/spatial considerations in urban planning and management, while also considering the socio-economic aspects. The students will explore the application of intelligent systems as foundations for Smart Cities. The course also deals with community empowerment for resource-efficient water conservation and waste management. Practitioners from private businesses and urban governments are invited to class to bring students face-to-face with realities and discuss plausible solutions.

Learning Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this course, students will:

• Understand the contexts, rationales, meaning and challenges of urban planning and management

• Understand the principles, instruments and strategies for urban management

• Be capable to evaluate best practices/cases in urban management

• Choose and utilize IT systems precisely and contextually as foundations of Smart Cities

• Understand the basic principles of current technologies for affordable clean water supply and waste-water treatment

• Have in-depth knowledge and analytical skills on solid waste management for effective environment protection

Books and Reading Material

• Kabisch, S. et al. (Eds.). (2018). Urban Transformations: Sustainable Urban Development Through Resource Efficiency, Quality of Life and Resilience. Springer. (Available full-text in UiA Library)

• Eslamian, S. (2015). Urban Water Reuse Handbook, CRC Press

• Tchobanoglous, G. & Kreith, F. (2002). Handbook of Solid Waste Management. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

• El-Haggar, S.M. (2009). Industrial Solid Wastes Utilization and Disposal. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Course coordinator

Bakti Setiawan, Professor (Universitas Gadjah Mada)

Jørn Cruickshank, Professor (University of Agder)