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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
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
GIS Walkability Modeling

GIS Walkability Modeling

Instructor: Steph A. Nelson

As the field of planning continues to trend toward multi-modal, sustainable transportation practices, tools to model or analyze the walkability of a given area have grown in number and complexity. In this course, students will learn how to apply ArcMap and the Spatial Analyst extension to model walkability. The course assumes students have a working knowledge of GIS and basic familiarity with Spatial Analyst.

46 Mins
SACPLAN CPD

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Topic

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