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Virtual Reality for Planners 4: Refining the End User Experience

Virtual Reality for Planners 4: Refining the End User Experience

Instructor: Chase Mullen

Creating a VR experience is one thing, but managing its use at public events and integrating it into the urban design workflow is an extra, separate step. This course considers the bigger picture and covers a few ways to fine-tune the user’s experience for maximum success.

74 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Virtual Reality for Planners 3: Working with Unity

Virtual Reality for Planners 3: Working with Unity

Instructor: Chase Mullen

This course provides a high-level overview of the process involved in creating a virtual reality application and teaches viewers how to assemble a virtual reality application from scratch using Unity how to make the process as successful as possible.

64 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Virtual Reality for Planners 2: Modeling in SketchUp

Virtual Reality for Planners 2: Modeling in SketchUp

Instructor: Chase Mullen

This course provides a step-by-step SketchUp tutorial and teaches users how to create content appropriate for a virtual reality environment. Viewers will learn how to optimize the performance of their software and ensure success in the next steps of the process, including final model export to Unity.

72 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Urban Design for Planners 2: Getting Started with QGIS and SketchUp

Urban Design for Planners 2: Getting Started with QGIS and SketchUp

Instructor: Emily Talen

Course instructor Emily Talen guides viewers through the process of transferring a shapefile of building outlines into SketchUp and processes of basic manipulation necessary to create a 3D model. Learn how to load data into QGIS, set the coordinate reference system, and change the graphic display of data layers.

46 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools

Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools

Instructor: Emily Talen

Urban planners and urban designers are interested in building places that embody beauty and hope. In this course, Emily Talen, PhD, FAICP, presents free urban design software tools that can help urban planners and urban designers visualize changes in the built environment to support the overarching goal of creating better places.

59 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
MetroQuest Public Involvement Software: In Practice and In Action

MetroQuest Public Involvement Software: In Practice and In Action

Instructor: Dave Biggs

This course provides an introduction to working with MetroQuest, what it helps planners achieve, and some of its most important features and capabilities. The course also presents a series of case studies to demonstrate the results MetroQuest has achieved for a wide range of planning projects.

74 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
Best Practices for Community Engagement

Best Practices for Community Engagement

Instructor: Dave Biggs

This course provides you with solid understanding of the benefits to community engagement, the psychology of public participants, an overview of the tools and tactics to choose from and advice on the creation of a public engagement plan to meet the needs of your projects.

70 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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