{"c_title":"[M0.001800] Systems Approach for Sustainable Cities","c_info":"3 credits | Lecture\/Seminar | Master | Dept. of Environmental Planning","c_summary":"Sustainable urban development requires a long-term sector-integrative approach. Cities are highly complex spatial agglomerations that consist of natural and human-made built environments including buildings and infrastructure. Urban elements are closely related to each other, and they re-influence other elements or relationships, complicating urban problems. Recently, the development of information and communication technology and the spread of smart cities have further deepened the inter-dependency between sectors including infrastructure and built environment, natural environment, and socio-economic sector. Thus, sustainable cities require systematic thinking to understand, integrate and coordinate various sectors and their interactions. In the regard, this lecture will cultivate systematic thinking based on temporal, integrated, and feedback thinking, learn the theory of complex systems, system dynamics and network analysis and apply them to the practical urban planning and policy problems."}