Donald Shoup is Distinguished Research Professor from the University of California, Los Angeles, whose 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking, is one the most influential pieces of planning scholarship from the 21st century.
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Donald Shoup63 minutes -
The film "City Dreamers," directed by Joseph Hillel and released in 2018, tells the story of four women designers who worked to shape North American cities throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century.
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Lynn Richards, Susan HendersonZoning and codes represent the very DNA of communities. They dictate how tall buildings can be, where parking goes, and how much landscaping is required.
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Daniel ParolekThe "Missing Middle" is a range of multi-unit or clustered housing types compatible in scale with single-family homes. Missing Middle housing has the benefit of meeting the growing demand for walkable urban living.
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Location Optimization
Instructor: Kevin Credit
This course introduces the basic principles of location optimization models and provides a hands-on tutorial on point-based location optimization using QGIS and LINGO.
Transportation Planning: Principles and Practices of Transportation Finance
Instructor: Richard Willson
This course explains principles of transportation finance and reviews the general structure for funding transportation projects. Learn about the history of U.S. funding, from strong local funding to state and federal involvement to regional funding sources.
Measuring Neighborhood Segregation and Diversity
Instructor: Emily Talen
This course reviews the various ways to measure both segregation and diversity at the neighborhood scale.
CityEngine for Planners 3: Integration and GIS
Instructor: Elliot Hartley
Learn how to import real-world data from satellite imagery and terrain to GIS data.
Urban Design for Planners 3: Neighborhoods and Centers
Instructor: Emily Talen
This course demonstrates how to delineate neighborhoods and neighborhood centers in a given area and also illustrates a sample of neighborhood enhancing design improvements.
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.
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.
Introduction to Real Estate Equity Crowdfunding
Instructor: Ben Schulman
Learn the rules that govern and allow for real estate crowdfunding and how real estate crowdfunding can be deployed in your community for possible development.
Building a Transit Map Web App
Instructor: Yoh Kawano
This course examines the entire process of building an interactive, web-based mapping application.
Introduction to WebGIS
Instructor: Yoh Kawano
This course explains various Internet technologies commonly used to build web-based visualization applications with municipal data.
Multi-Family Property Valuation Case Study for Planners
Instructor: Menka Sethi
This course will take planners through a case study multi-family property valuation. The course will build upon previous course topics of time discounting, internal rate of return, net operating income, lease structures, debt payments, and risk assessment.
Office Property Valuation Case Study for Planners
Instructor: Menka Sethi
This course offers a case study of office property valuation, building upon topics from previous courses, including time discounting, internal rate of return, net operating income, lease structures, debt payments, and risk assessment.
Real Estate Debt for Planners
Instructor: Menka Sethi
This course introduces planners to basic concepts of real estate debt, including metrics used in obtaining a mortgage and other concepts like borrowing capacity, and amortization analysis.
Property Valuation for Planners
Instructor: Menka Sethi
This course builds on topics covered in the previous two courses from this series, time value of money and property cash flow, to undertake a discounted cash flow analysis of property value.
Property Cash Flow Analysis for Planners
Instructor: Menka Sethi
This course will introduce planners to property cash flow analysis, which provides the foundation for real estate pro forma analysis.
Time Value of Money for Planners
Instructor: Menka Sethi
This course will introduce planners to the concept of time value of money that will provide the foundation for real estate pro forma analysis.
GIS Fundamentals: Geocoding, Geoprocessing, and Online Sharing
Instructor: Mike Ernst
This fifth installment of the GIS Fundamentals series provides instruction on how to geocode addresses, the basics of geoprocessing, and the use of ArcGIS Online for collaborative mapping and processing.
GIS Fundamentals: Importing, Selecting, and Managing Data
Instructor: Mike Ernst
The fourth installment of the Geographic Information Systems Fundamentals series explains how to configure data sets, including advanced methods for selecting data through spatial and SQL queries, working with relational databases and geodatabases, and importing non-spatial data into ArcGIS.
GIS Fundamentals: Thematic Maps
Instructor: Mike Ernst
This third GIS Fundamentals course covers the basics of making several kinds of thematic maps, including choropleth, dot density, and proportional symbol maps.
GIS Fundamentals: Projections and Map Design
Instructor: Mike Ernst
The course will continue core concepts of GIS that began in the first course, including projections, coordinate systems, cartography, and the difference between raster and vector data models.
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