Designing Smart Communities

3 credits · Graduate Programs

Introduces the emerging field of Smart Communities, showcasing groups and individuals that have made a conscious and deliberate effort to use information and communications technology (ICT) to transform the community's life and work in significant and fundamental ways. Smart Communities may be physical or virtual, and the concept is more about the creative use of ICT infrastructure than merely building it. The social, economic, technical, design and ethical aspects of Smart Communities will all be considered. Prerequisite(s): Planning 640 or Environmental Design 630. Also known as: (formerly Environmental Design 634)