Name: Walkable City 7: The Planner's Pledge
Rating: 4.39 (137 reviews)
Author: Jeff Speck

Course Info

7 video lessons (72 Mins)
Published
2025
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1.

Introduction

5 mins
2.

History of the Pledge

19 mins
3.

Pledge Structure and Introductory Text

2 mins
4.

The "Whereas" Statements

18 mins
5.

The "Encourage" Statements

14 mins
6.

The "Discourage" Statements

8 mins
7.

What You Can Do

2 mins

What You Will Learn

- Learn about a nascent movement to reform the planning profession.

- Learn about the flawed history of the profession.

- Learn about the need to add a quality standard to the expectations surrounding planning practice.

- Learn the key fundamentals that distinguish good planning from bad.

- Consider joining the Planner’s Pledge movement and sharing its message.

Course Description

The North American built environment is the result of many influences, not least among them the direction provided by the planning profession. Thanks in part to that profession’s historical embrace of zoning and highways, we now inhabit a built environment that separates us ruthlessly both from different activities and from different people, such that we are inordinately dependent on our automobiles and less connected to one another. The outcomes of this pattern of growth could not be more profound. We have worsened public health, lost economic resiliency, exacerbated inequity, and undermined the social fabric of our communities as our daily driving cooks the planet. It is time for professional planners to offer a new model of professional conduct, one that explicitly acknowledges past errors, rejects autocentric suburban sprawl, and embraces a sustainable, equitable, walkable urbanism. That model is offered here in the form of The Planner’s Pledge.

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