Training

JUST LAUNCHED | Spatial network analysis: urban scale

An online, self-paced training course for the construction and interpretation of spatial connectivity models. These models explain how spatial connections affect the social, economic and environmental performance of cities and regions.

While this module is intended as a follow up to our Interconnected Places course, it is also possible to take it as a stand-alone course. Created by Space Syntax, the course introduces Depthmap and QGIS, and is designed to provide you with the same hands-on analytic skills we apply in daily practice.

The course is composed of three short parts that you can access and come back to whenever you have time to engage and learn. The material is dynamic and interactive, with opportunities to test your new knowledge. You will also be given exercise files that you can use to try out the software programmes discussed in the course, following the in-course videos to undertake your own urban analysis in the featured software programmes. You can download exercise files and a reading list from the site, and you will be given links to where you can down the relevant software.

Interconnected places online training course

Take our non-technical, self-guided training course to learn about ‘space syntax’: the science-based and human-focused approach that uses systems thinking and spatial network analysis to explain how cities work. 

Whether you’re a city leader, policy maker, architect or urban planner, you’ll gain new insights into how street networks influence everyday activities in cities: how people move, interact, collaborate and trade. You’ll come away with a new understanding of the spatial underpinnings of thriving, liveable and sustainable cities. 

Access the course and discover the hidden potential of cities to address key global challenges.

“As an architect studying to become an urban planner, this short course helps solidify the ‘systems thinking’ outlook that planners and policymakers should practice.”

Winona Elaine Soriano