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Two courses.
One coherent journey.

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🆓 Free forever

Cities Are Alive
A New Lens for the Future of Cities

The beginning. A perceptual shift in how you see cities — from machine logic to living systems intelligence.

Cities have never had more data. And yet decisions keep producing the same blind spots. In under an hour, this free course shifts the lens — giving you the frameworks to read flows, feedback loops, and weak signals that dashboards don't show.

⏱ ~1 hour 5 sections Self-paced No prerequisites Certificate included
Five sections
01 · Rethinking Cities: A New Lens
02 · Cities as Living Systems
03 · The Three Shifts
04 · The Future of Cities Mindset
05 · From Insight to Action
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⭐ Mastercourse

City Intelligence for
Policymakers & Researchers

The deep companion. From diagnosis to strategy — built on 150 indicators across 10 European cities.

Twelve modules built on the City Intelligence Index. Moves from why cities fail despite good data — through diagnosis, intervention design, strategy, and ethics — to a full City Intelligence Blueprint. Built for policymakers and researchers simultaneously.

⏱ 4–5 hours 12 modules Self-paced 150 CII indicators Certificate included
Twelve modules
00 · Welcome & Course Orientation
02 · Why Cities Fail Despite Good Data
03 · What City Intelligence Actually Is
04 · Inside the City Intelligence Index
05 · Diagnosing Your City
06 · From Insight to Intervention

+ 6 further modules including Ethics, Strategy, Leadership & Certification

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Cities Are Alive is the entry point
Free, under one hour, no background needed. The lens shift that makes everything else possible.
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The Mastercourse is where the work begins
12 modules. Real data. A City Intelligence Blueprint you can use on Monday morning.

On the horizon

Upcoming programmes

In active development — all grounded in the same research base and the City Intelligence Index.

🔧 In development
Reading the CII
An interactive data course
Hands-on exploration of 150 indicators across 10 European cities. Learn to read a city profile, identify structural gaps, and generate a diagnostic brief.
Analysts Researchers Policy teams
🔧 In development
Ethics of Urban
Intelligence
Who gets measured. Who gets left out. What responsible urban intelligence demands from practitioners. A standalone module expanding the Ethics chapter.
Urban leaders Data teams Researchers
📋 Planned
City Intelligence
for Corporate Leaders
For corporate strategy teams operating in urban contexts. How to read city intelligence signals and build responsible long-term urban presence.
Corporate strategy ESG teams Real estate
📋 Planned
City Intelligence
University Programme
A semester-length programme for urban studies, public policy, and architecture students. CII framework, applied diagnostics, and a city brief capstone.
Students Universities Lecturers
🔬 Research phase
My City, My Voice
A citizens' course
City intelligence for everyone. Tools for curious residents to read their city, understand what the data does and doesn't say, and participate more meaningfully in urban decisions.
Citizens Community leaders Free

"The future of cities will be shaped by those willing to hold complexity with care and curiosity."

Dr. Fatime Barbara Hegyi · Future of Cities Academy