À propos de ce cours : Welcome to The City and You: Find Your Best Place. I'm excited to have you in the class and look forward to your contributions to the other learners in our community. This free course will provide the knowledge and the tools needed to understand what cities do, why they matter, the forces shaping the greatest wave of urbanization in history, and how to pick the right place for you. The course will also help you develop critical thinking skills. We'll accomplish this by providing evidence of the importance of cities, and why and how they matter to you. Then we’ll ask you to apply what you’ve learned in an exercise which will help you assess your own community and find your best place. This course is accessible and open to anyone who is interested in learning more about cities and the ways they affect our lives. It is organized around five key modules: (1) Why Cities Matter, (2) A World of Cities, (3) The Creative City, (4) The Divided City and the New Urban Crisis, and (5) How to Find the Best Place for You. After completing the course, you will be able to: (1) Identify why cities are the drivers of economic prosperity; (2) Explain the drivers and implications of fast-growing urbanization worldwide; (3) Outline the key characteristics of a creative and innovative city; (4) Describe the social divides and challenges facing cities and the solutions cities are using to address them; and (5) Recognize the trade-offs of staying in your current city versus moving, and identify the best place for you and your family to live. Good luck as you get started, and I hope you enjoy the course!
Les destinataires de ce cours : This is class is for anyone who wants to better appreciate the trends shaping our cities and communities today and how the places we live shape our lives.
Créé par : Université de Toronto
Enseigné par : Richard Florida, University Professor and Director of Cities, University of Toronto
Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management
| Niveau | Beginner |
| Langue | English |
| Comment réussir | Réussissez tous les devoirs notés pour terminer le cours. |
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Programme de cours
SEMAINE 1
Why Cities Matter
This session will help you to understand the importance of cities for both the economy and society, as well as, you and your family. Today, more than three and a half billion people live in cities, which is more than half of the world's population. That figure is projected to rise to as many as 10 billion people or 85 percent of the world's population over the next century. Cities are our premier platforms for generating new innovations, higher levels of economic growth, and new and better jobs. We will discuss why and how cities are important, and why picking the right city to live is important to your career, well-being, and life.
7 vidéos, 6 lectures
- Vidéo: Course Overview - The City and You (Instructor Video)
- Vidéo: What The City and You is About & How It Will Benefit You (Instructor Video)
- Reading: Course Syllabus
- Vidéo: Why Cities Matter (Instructor Video)
- Discussion Prompt: What Do Cities Do?
- Reading: Why Cities Matter
- Reading: What Makes for a Great City
- Reading: Triumph of the City
- Reading: Jane Jacobs - Who Changed the Way We Think About Cities
- Reading: Optional Activity: Living Atlas
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 1 Follow-up - Cohort 1
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 1 Follow-up - Cohort 2
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 1 Follow-up - Cohort 3
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 1 Follow-up - U of T Alumni Edition
Noté: Pause and Reflect: Should You Stay or Move?
Noté: Why Cities Matter
SEMAINE 2
A World of Cities
This session will help you understand the opportunities and challenges of urbanization around the world. Global urbanization has the power to lift living standards, create economic opportunity and jobs, reduce pollution, improve energy efficiency, and make the world safer. But, many cities in the developing world remain poor, with millions of people crowded into global slums.
6 vidéos, 6 lectures
- Vidéo: A World of Cities (Instructor Video)
- Vidéo: Opportunities & Challenges of Global Cities (Instructor Video: includes discussion of the exercise for this week)
- Discussion Prompt: What is a Global City?
- Reading: The World is Spiky
- Reading: Planet of Cities
- Reading: Urbanization Without Growth
- Reading: The Problem of Global Slums
- Reading: Why Cities Matter in the Developing World
- Reading: OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Population Density Map
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 2 Follow-up - Cohort 1
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 2 Follow-up - Cohort 2
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 2 Follow-up - Cohort 3
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 2 Follow-up - U of T Alumni Edition
Noté: Pause and Reflect: Tell Us about Your Global City
Noté: A World of Cities
SEMAINE 3
The Creative City
Cities have been the fonts of creativity since the dawn of civilization. The clustering of creative people in them and the diversity they bring is what drives key advances in arts, culture, and technology. These wellsprings of human progress have always occurred in our great cities from Athens and Rome to London, New York, and the emerging economies in Asia. This session will help you better understand how the clustering of diverse groups of creative people in cities spurs artistic achievement, scientific and technological advance, and human progress.
7 vidéos, 6 lectures
- Vidéo: The Creative City (Instructor Video)
- Vidéo: Technology, Talent and Tolerance in the Creative City (Instructor Video)
- Vidéo: How Cities Spur Creativity (Instructor Video: includes discussion of the exercise for this week)
- Discussion Prompt: What Makes Cities Creative?
- Reading: Creativity and Cities
- Reading: Global Startup Cities
- Reading: The Urban Tech Revolution
- Reading: The Geography of Innovation
- Reading: Optional Activity - UNESCO Creative Cities Network
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 3 Follow-up- Cohort 1
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 3 Follow-up- Cohort 2
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 3 Follow-up- Cohort 3
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 3 Follow-up - U of T Alumni Edition
- Reading: Innovation
Noté: Pause and Reflect: Your Creative City
Noté: On the Creative City
SEMAINE 4
The New Urban Crisis
This session will help you better understand the New Urban Crisis and the growing economic divides that challenge cities today. In the second half of the 20th century, society was divided between poorer cities and richer suburbs. But, over the past decade or so, affluent and educated people have flocked back to urban centers pushing poverty out to the suburbs. Today, middle-class neighborhoods are in decline and our societies are defined by small areas of concentrated advantaged surrounded by much larger areas of concentrated disadvantage spanning the city and its suburb alike.
6 vidéos, 5 lectures
- Vidéo: The New Urban Crisis (Instructor Video)
- Vidéo: Gentrification and the Divided City (Instructor Video: includes discussion of the exercise for this module)
- Discussion Prompt: To What Degree are Our Cities Becoming More Divided and Unequal?
- Reading: Why America's Richest Cities Keep Getting Richer
- Reading: How Expensive Housing is Stifling of Creativity of Cities
- Reading: The Divided City
- Reading: Confronting the New Urban Crisis
- Reading: OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Wealth Divides
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 4 Follow-Up- Cohort 1
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 4 Follow-Up Cohort 2
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 4 Follow-Up Cohort 3
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 4 Follow-up - U of T Alumni Edition
Noté: Pause and Reflect: The Divides and Challenges of Your City
Noté: The New Urban Crisis
SEMAINE 5
Find Your Best Place
This session will help you understand the importance of where you live to your life and career. We each make three big decisions in our lives: our career, our choice of life-partner, and the place (city and neighborhood) where we live. We get lots of advice on the first two, but little on the third. Yet, choosing where to live is the most important decision of all. It shapes and influences the kinds of careers that we pursue and the kinds of people we will meet. This session provides you with the tools and a framework for choosing the place that is best for you and your family.
7 vidéos, 3 lectures
- Vidéo: Find Your Best Place (Instructor Video)
- Vidéo: Use the Place-Finder Tool to Find Your Best Place (Instructor Video: includes discussion of the final assignment)
- Discussion Prompt: Find Your Best Place
- Reading: How to Love the Place You Live
- Reading: On How to Choose the Place That Is Best for You
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Final Remarks
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 5 Follow-up and Final Remarks - Cohort 1
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 5 Follow-up - Cohort 2
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 5 Follow-Up Cohort 3
- Vidéo: Richard Florida Week 5 Follow-up - U of T Alumni Edition
- Reading: Peer Assignment Option: Story Map Tour
Noté: Find Your Best Place - Capstone Activity
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