Course Info
10 video lessons (103 Mins)
Published
2017
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Browse Course Chapters
- 1. Introduction (1 min)
- 2. What Makes a Plan? Part 1 (9 mins)
- 3. What Makes a Plan? Part 2 (9 mins)
- 4. Why Do the Plan? (4 mins)
- 5. Successful Plans (12 mins)
- 6. Types of Plans (15 mins)
- 7. Whose Plan Is It? Part 1 (4 mins)
- 8. Whose Plan Is It? Part 2 (16 mins)
- 9. Getting It Done, Part 1 (14 mins)
- 10. Getting It Done, Part 2 (14 mins)
Course Description
Master plans are complex documents, meant to guide a community’s development for perhaps a generation. They are also moving targets—assembling lots of information, balancing conflicting positions and goals, and changing as they move through the planning process.
In this course you’ll learn how to approach a master plan—starting with concept development and community voice, and finishing with the mechanics of organizing and expressing ideas.
At the end of this course, you will understand the purpose of a master plan, the planners’ responsibility as a writer and advocate, how to balance stakeholders’ positions and community policies, and how to sort and present information.
Learn these skills
- Civic Engagement
- Communications & Media
- Plan Making
- Writing
AICP CM
This course is approved for 1.5 AICP CM credits.