Course Info
8 video lessons (54 Mins)
Published
2019-
Preview Course
Browse Course Chapters
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1.Introduction
1 min
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2.Understanding Neighborhoods
7 mins
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3.Historical Overview
5 mins
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4.The Designed Neighborhood
6 mins
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5.Neighborhoods Redefined
8 mins
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6.Neighborhood Debates
13 mins
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7.Getting the Neighborhood Back
3 mins
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8.Strategies for Planners
7 mins
What You Will Learn
- Understand the history of neighborhoods
- Review alternative neighborhood definitions
- Understand the debates surrounding neighborhoods
- Review the steps required for neighborhood delineation
Course Description
Interconnection, localized identity, human scale, adjacency, access, the need for a graspable spatial unit to belong to—these are the regularities of urban experience that establish a durable foundation for the traditional concept of neighborhood. Neighborhoods are often defined by arbitrary lines on a map, lacking real meaning or power. This course reviews neighborhood-building strategies that are incremental, resident controlled, and planner enabled. This course reviews the varying definitions of neighborhoods and examines methods for defining a physical basis and tangible meaning to neighborhoods based on the location of neighborhood centers, boundaries, and spatial extents.
Learn these skills
- Civic Engagement
- Law and Policy
- Urbanism
- Walkability
AICP CM
This course is approved for 1 AICP CM credit.
AIA CES
This is 1 LU.CNU-A
This course is approved for 1 CNU-A credit.
SACPLAN CPD
This course is approved for 1 SACPLAN CPD point.