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Decking Highways: Reconnecting Communities

This course guides communities through the highway decking process from initial visioning through planning and implementation by exploring key motivations such as community goals, equity considerations, and technical challenges.

David Dixon
Taught By David Dixon
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Course Info

  • Duration 7 video lessons (51 Mins)
  • Published Published
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  • 4.25
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    1.
    Introduction
    Chapter Duration 2 mins
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    What is a Highway Deck?
    Chapter Duration 6 mins
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    3.
    Why Deck a Highway?
    Chapter Duration 8 mins
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    Full Stop: Equity and Inclusion
    Chapter Duration 5 mins
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    Why Now?
    Chapter Duration 10 mins
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    Critical Issues to Consider Early On
    Chapter Duration 9 mins
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    How Do We Get Started
    Chapter Duration 9 mins

What You Will Learn

  • Understand multiple approaches to creating highway decks.
  • Identify the range of economic development, public realm, connectivity and additional rationales for decking.
  • Identify the multiple disciplines that need to be involved in successful planning for a highway deck.
  • Understand the potential costs and benefits, based on case studies that represent very different approaches to decking in diverse communities (e.g. with strong or weak real estate markets) and the implications for implementation strategies.

Course Description

The course structure reflects the linear approach that many communities take to reaching the decision to envision, plan, and finally implement a highway deck:

  • Why deck a highway? Understanding the community goals that spur the decision to explore decking.
  • What are the equity and inclusion issues linked to decking?
  • What are the options for decking? A quick tour of very different decks built and currently in planning across North America.
  • What issues should a sponsor consider in developing an initial vision to build public support and guide planning? These in clude core engineering, real estate market, mobility, and similar issues that shape achievable outcomes, and whose help a sponsor needs to address these issues.
  • Case studies — built and currently in planning — to understand how very diverse communities have approached very different approaches to decking.
  • Getting started: initial steps and who needs to be involved.

Learn these skills

  • Equity
  • Housing
  • Land Use
  • Parks & Recreation
  • Pedestrian Planning
  • Site Planning
  • Transportation
  • Urban Design
  • Walkability

AICP CM

This course is approved for .75 AICP CM credit.

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David Dixon

David Dixon

David is well known for helping create new, mixed-use urban districts (in both cities and suburbs) and the planning, revitalization, and redevelopment of downtowns.

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