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City Dreamers
81 Mins
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Planning for Racial Equity
Lance Freeman
55 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
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Lewis Mumford on the City 1: The City - Heaven and Hell
29 Mins
  • AICP CM
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Race, Space, and Planning
Álvaro Huerta
66 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
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Donald Shoup Explains Parking Reform
Donald Shoup
48 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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A Brief History of Immigration and Planning
Álvaro Huerta
65 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
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Introduction to Historic Preservation
Meredith Johnson
38 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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The Pedestrian Safety Crisis in the U.S.
Angie Schmitt
53 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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The Government’s Role in Historic Preservation
Meredith Johnson
61 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Segregated by Design
18 Mins
  • AICP CM
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Historic Preservation: How-to Guide
Meredith Johnson
73 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Resilience Planning for Floods
Chris Holtkamp
69 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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American Architectural Styles
Meredith Johnson
71 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
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Women and Cities: Gender Equity, Past and Present
Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman
54 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Ethics: Balancing a Business Friendly Planning Environment
Carol D. Barrett
59 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Parking Benefit Districts
Donald Shoup
56 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Accessory Dwelling Units: Understanding America’s Newest Housing Typology
Jason Neville
57 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Planning and the Law: The Takings Clause
Thomas Hawkins
69 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
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Introduction to Resilience Planning
Chris Holtkamp
69 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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The Elements of Citymaking: Design, Policy, and Finance
Jason Neville
57 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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The Ethics of Disruptive Transportation Technologies
Carol D. Barrett
83 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Resilience Planning for Wildfires
Chris Holtkamp
58 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
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Incremental Code Reform: Enabling Better Places
Lynn Richards, Susan Henderson
59 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Planning for Universal Design
Lance Freeman
46 Mins
  • AICP CM
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Parking Benefit Districts
Donald Shoup

Free curb parking in a crowded city presents a classic common problem: no one owns it and everyone can use it.

56 Mins
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American Architectural Styles
Meredith Johnson
The final course of the Historic Preservation track traces the history of American architectural styles and discusses how to identify styles for historic preservation projects. The course discusses the differences between high style and vernacular architecture and review examples of both.
71 Mins
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City Dreamers

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.

81 Mins
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Incremental Code Reform: Enabling Better Places
Lynn Richards, Susan Henderson

Zoning and codes represent the very DNA of communities. They dictate how tall buildings can be, where parking goes, and how much landscaping is required.

59 Mins
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Missing Middle Housing: Meeting the Growing Demand for Walkable Urbanism
Daniel Parolek

The "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.

72 Mins

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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
AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
SketchUp for Planners - An Introduction

SketchUp for Planners - An Introduction

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Get started using SketchUp, the popular, easy-to-learn 3D digital modeling program. This course provides an introduction to how planners and architects represent three-dimensional objects in two-dimensions, with step-by-step instructions for creating and using simple 3D models.

39 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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