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CityEngine for Planners 4: Sharing Your Work

CityEngine for Planners 4: Sharing Your Work

Instructor: Elliot Hartley

Learn about the range of options for sharing your work, from web viewers to a simple VR experience.

77 Mins
SACPLAN CPD
CityEngine for Planners 3: Integration and GIS

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.

70 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
CityEngine for Planners 2: Coding in Computer Generated Architecture (CGA) and Exporting

CityEngine for Planners 2: Coding in Computer Generated Architecture (CGA) and Exporting

Instructor: Elliot Hartley

The second course of the City Engine for Planners track dives into coding in Esri CityEngine’s proprietary Computer Generated Architecture (CGA) code.

70 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
CityEngine for Planners 1: Introduction

CityEngine for Planners 1: Introduction

Instructor: Elliot Hartley

This course is designed for beginners seeking an introduction to 3D procedural modeling and CityEngine software.

47 Mins
AICP CM
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
Introduction to WebGIS

Introduction to WebGIS

Instructor: Yoh Kawano

This course explains various Internet technologies commonly used to build web-based visualization applications with municipal data.

52 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Multi-Family Property Valuation Case Study for Planners

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.

67 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
Property Cash Flow Analysis for Planners

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.

72 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
Time Value of Money for Planners

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.

80 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
The DIY Form-Based Code: Publishing and Expanding

The DIY Form-Based Code: Publishing and Expanding

Instructor: Norman Wright

In this fourth and final course of the DIY Form-Based Code series, learn to visually communicate publishable form-based code by using SketchUp and InDesign.

87 Mins
The DIY Form-Based Code: Testing and Refining

The DIY Form-Based Code: Testing and Refining

Instructor: Norman Wright

This third of four courses from the "DIY Form-Based Code" series shows how to use Excel and SketchUp to generate randomization tests, modeling, and refinements for a draft version of a form-based code.

81 Mins
The DIY Form-Based Code: Research and Development

The DIY Form-Based Code: Research and Development

Instructor: Norman Wright

Covering concepts critical to developing the foundation for a code, this course takes a a tour through the creation of a code for the hypothetical city of Wrightville.

66 Mins
AutoCAD for Site Planning

AutoCAD for Site Planning

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

This course establishes a workflow for an illustrative site plan, including how to represent existing conditions and create detailed plans for specific areas within a larger project. Building on AutoCAD 101, learn to draw  more complex plans using aerial imagery, photography, and hand-drawn sketches as the base layer.

74 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Geoanalysis with ArcGIS and Google Earth

Geoanalysis with ArcGIS and Google Earth

Instructor: Jessica White

Combining ArcGIS and Google Earth allows for a convenient, powerful way to create and share professional, accurate spatial visualizations of geographical analysis to a wide audience. This course explores how to prep shape files for ingestion into Google Earth, share city data with the public, and aid in pre-visualizing via geo-referencing around potential development sites.

85 Mins
SACPLAN CPD
Build A WordPress Website

Build A WordPress Website

Instructor: Alexander Schilpp

This ‘bootcamp’ course will help you develop a website layout using a self-hosted version of the popular content management system WordPress in under an hour. Learn to create and publish posts and pages, change the look of the site by using different themes, and manage the navigation, menus, and other content, such as as contributed modules and an image gallery.

50 Mins
Video for Planners

Video for Planners

Instructor: Tim Halbur

Video can be a highly effective tool for communicating urban planning issues as well as increasing public knowledge and community engagement. This video course will walk you through the three steps of creating a video: capturing the footage, creating the video with editing software, and distributing video across the web. We’ll look at examples of urban planning departments that have used video well, and review different content types that you can use as a model.

25 Mins
Working with Census.gov 2: Topics, Programs, Products

Working with Census.gov 2: Topics, Programs, Products

Instructor: Chris Williamson

This second of four courses delves deeper into the Census 'architecture'. In course 2 of "Working with Census.gov", Dr. Chris Williamson, a.k.a. Dr. Data, provides an overview on the federally mandated topics that lead to programs which ultimately produce products for the public. Course 2 also delves into such tricky topics as Census data table analysis and gives insider tips and goodies from a Census Bureau veteran.

75 Mins
Working with Census.gov 3: Interacting with the Data

Working with Census.gov 3: Interacting with the Data

Instructor: Chris Williamson

This third of four courses takes you into a series of live demonstrations and in-depth explanations and visuals from the Census.gov and American FactFiner websites. The course covers a comprehensive navigation of the pages, tools and interactive databases that form the expansive Census website and publicly accessible data stores and produced information.

65 Mins
Introductory Population Analysis with Excel

Introductory Population Analysis with Excel

Instructor: William Riggs

Whether you're new to population analysis or just need a refresher, this course offers a comprehensive overview of the steps necessary to conduct analysis and develop projections using publicly available data. The course reviews Census data and builds skills, such as population projection, cohort survival, and concentration calculations that are essential for every professional in the planning and design community.

50 Mins
SACPLAN CPD
Introductory Housing Analysis with Excel

Introductory Housing Analysis with Excel

Instructor: William Riggs

Planners play a crucial role in making housing more affordable and livable. In this course, you will learn about basic market principles, how to judge housing needs, and how to meet that housing need through affordable housing—all the data and analysis skills needed to estimate housing needs.

55 Mins
SACPLAN CPD

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