This unit examines emerging challenges and governance strategies for next‑generation smart cities, synthesizing regional case studies and sectoral trends to inform policy and planning. Students will integrate lessons on visioning, security and privacy, mobility, healthcare delivery, workforce diversity, and communications to produce actionable governance plans.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze case studies from the Middle East, North America, and South America to identify at least three transferable governance and planning strategies and explain how regional context alters implementation outcomes
- Evaluate security, privacy, and ethical trade-offs in smart city initiatives and recommend at least three policy or technical mitigations that balance public safety and individual rights
- Apply strategic planning and program management techniques to create a concise vision statement and a 5-year implementation roadmap addressing mobility, healthcare delivery, logistics, and workforce diversity that anticipates short- and long-term impacts
- Demonstrate stakeholder communication and accountability practices by producing a stakeholder brief and a lessons-learned summary that shares successes and failures and fosters inclusive decision-making
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 13 Lessons
- 30 hours
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- Unit 4 — Smart Cities: Futures and Governance13
- 1.1MIDDLE EAST20 mins
- 1.2Working with No Clear Vision for the Program20 mins
- 1.3Crime May Be Reduced Significantly20 mins
- 1.4NORTH AMERICA20 mins
- 1.5Downplaying the Essential Roles of Security and Privacy20 mins
- 1.6More Diversity Will Show Up in What Humans Do and How They Work20 mins
- 1.7SOUTH AMERICA20 mins
- 1.8Sharing Successes and Failures Too Narrowly20 mins
- 1.9The Way People and Goods Move Will Continue to Evolve20 mins
- 1.10Sticking Stubbornly to the Old Ways of Doing Things20 mins
- 1.11The Delivery of Healthcare Will Be Transformed20 mins
- 1.12Thinking Too Short-Term20 mins
- 1.13Everything Will Be Delivered20 mins
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