This course is designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding of key urbanisation challenges confronting cities in the Asia-Pacific region, as they pursue more sustainable development whilst competing in the global economy. Urbanisation is making people living in Asia Pacific, more vulnerable to climate change impacts, posing threats to global sustainable development goals. Through the use of both theoretical texts and real-life case studies, you will challenge the framing of terms such as 'poverty', 'slums', 'resilience' and 'nature-based solutions'. It is anticipated that you will develop critical evaluation skills to understand a context from a systems perspective, be able to empathise with the locals and able to create strategies and/or recommendations to address some of the identified challenges for a nominated case study city. In this course you will address issues associated with UN Sustainability Goals such as SDG 1 (reduce poverty), SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities), SDG 13 (climate action).