Program Image The Circular City: Towards a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem

The Circular City: Towards a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem

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In this three-week summer programme, students are taught how to leverage the potential of cities via a new paradigm for urban planning and design: urban metabolism. While this concept has been around for over 50 years, recent interest in it has rejuvenated the fields of urban studies, industrial ecology, and architecture. Urban metabolism can be defined as the sum total of the technical and socio-economic processes that occur in cities, resulting in growth, and production of energy, materials, and waste. The city is viewed by its ‘material flows’, generally defined into water, energy, materials (including food), and waste. These flows consist of inputs (local, regional, and global inflow of resources), throughputs (energy required to transform these resources and waste produced by any process), and outputs (the material outcome of this process).  This interdisciplinary course unravels the complexity behind  truly sustainable urban development. Through the use of different tools, scientific methods and analysis, students will experience experimental urban design both theoretically, and gain an introduction to innovative tools and methods, able to apply their knowledge learned in a wide variety of settings. Early admission deadline: 1 February 2025. Final admission deadline: 15 March 2025. Applications are processed throughout the year on a rolling basis. 

Language

English

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Duration

19 days

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Numerus Fixus

Tuition fee 2024/2025

€ 1,800


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€ 1,800
Start date App. deadline EU/EEA App. deadline Non-EU/EEA
20 Jul '25 15 Mar '25 15 Mar '25

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Contact

University of Amsterdam

Main address
Gebouw E, Roetersstraat 11
1018 WB Amsterdam
020-525 1401

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