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The Elements of Citymaking: Design, Policy, and Finance
Examine the theory of city-making at various scales, ranging from a development site at the smallest scale to the largest urban regions.
Women and Cities 4: Gender Equity in the Public Sphere
This course will outline the way in which women have occupied public spaces and the transition into a greater level of visibility for women in cities.
Women and Cities 5: The Feminist Future City
This final chapter speculates on what a feminist city could look like, recalling case studies and ancient examples that include contemporary contexts but also consider future needs for a more heart-centered city designed for everyone.
Traffic Congestion, Part Two: Congestion Pricing
Dive into congestion pricing: what it is, why it could work, and how governments might implement it.
Controlling Rents
This course introduces planners to the debate surrounding rent control, discussing both what rent control is able to accomplish, and where it often has unintended consequences.
Introduction to Culture and Placemaking
Explore the urban theories that have prepared urbanists and planners alike to recognize culture and embrace of diversity as significant mechanisms for shaping the city and the fate of urban landscapes.
The Theory and Practice of Culture and Placemaking
Learn about the complex issues at play in the interaction between culture and place: the urbanization process, the historical significance of tools used by urban planners, early American urban theories, and the power of social movements.
The Right Price for Curb Parking
Setting the right price for on-street, curb parking, requires a thorough understanding of the theory and practice of demand-based pricing.
Prospects for Zoning Reform
Catch up on the contemporary policy debates about zoning reform in the United States by learning from one of the nation’s leading voices on the subject, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Jenny Schuetz.
A New Era of Downtown Opportunity: The Intersection of Housing and Innovation
Learn specific policy and urban design strategies for adapting downtowns to a new role: innovation communities.
Resilience Planning for Floods
This course builds on the "Introduction to Resilience Planning" course and uses the approach presented there as the framework for addressing flood threats in communities.
Organizational Behavior at the Individual Level
Understanding the behavior of others can enhance the performance of your organization. This course highlights some of the individual-level behavior at the heart of work dynamics.
Working With Cross-Cultural Differences
At the end of this course, participants should have a basic understanding of some of the theoretical dimensions of culture that help us to understand cross-cultural differences.
Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Urban Planning Work
This course will help you understand what emotional intelligence is, what the component parts of emotional intelligence are, and understand some strategies to try in each of these areas.
Incorporating the Sustainable Development Goals into the Planning Process
This course focuses on the many ways planners can infuse sustainability into local planning activities and policies using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a guiding framework.
Introduction to Corporate Sustainability
In this course, the student will gain the skills needed to help an organization adopt sustainable practices, develop long-term plans to minimize environmental impact, identify the appropriate frameworks, and undertake meaningful interaction with internal and external stakeholders.
Principles of Materiality, Responsiveness, Inclusivity, and Impact
In this course, students will take a deep dive into the AA1000 AccountAbility standard and its four Principles: Inclusivity, Materiality, Responsiveness and Impact and how they integrate to develop a very well thought out framework.
Environmental and Sustainability Standards
This course explains the different and most relevant sustainability standards—such as GRI, CDP, SASB, ISO, B-Corp, and others—as well as the differences between process and performance standards.
Sustainable Supply Chains
This course examines how to integrate environmental, social, and financial practices into an organization's complete product and services lifecycle, from product design and development to raw material selection, including raw material extraction or agricultural production, manufacturing, packaging, transportation, and end of life.
Sustainability Marketing and Greenwashing
Sustainability marketing, when done right, can boost a brand’s reputation and provide an edge over competitors. This course analyzes strategies to effectively jump-start sustainability marketing efforts and avoid greenwashing.
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