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Location Optimization

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.

70 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Virtual Reality for Planners 4: Refining the End User Experience

Virtual Reality for Planners 4: Refining the End User Experience

Instructor: Chase Mullen

Creating a VR experience is one thing, but managing its use at public events and integrating it into the urban design workflow is an extra, separate step. This course considers the bigger picture and covers a few ways to fine-tune the user’s experience for maximum success.

74 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Virtual Reality for Planners 3: Working with Unity

Virtual Reality for Planners 3: Working with Unity

Instructor: Chase Mullen

This course provides a high-level overview of the process involved in creating a virtual reality application and teaches viewers how to assemble a virtual reality application from scratch using Unity how to make the process as successful as possible.

64 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Virtual Reality for Planners 2: Modeling in SketchUp

Virtual Reality for Planners 2: Modeling in SketchUp

Instructor: Chase Mullen

This course provides a step-by-step SketchUp tutorial and teaches users how to create content appropriate for a virtual reality environment. Viewers will learn how to optimize the performance of their software and ensure success in the next steps of the process, including final model export to Unity.

72 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Tableau for Planners 3: Dashboards

Tableau for Planners 3: Dashboards

Instructor: Sean Maguire

This course will expand on the Tableau for Planners: Introduction and Worksheets. Students will have prior experience will building basic tables and will start to use Tableau to build multi-worksheet dashboards with interactive controls like filtering. Students will also learn how to make the data used in their visualization accessible to the public. At the end of the course, we will demonstrate how to publish the work to Tableau Public and embed dashboards on websites and in social media.

51 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Tableau for Planners 2: Worksheets

Tableau for Planners 2: Worksheets

Instructor: Sean Maguire

This course will expand on the Tableau for Planners: Introduction course. This course continues to train the planner on how to build effective worksheets for planners. This course will introduce general principles of data visualization and orient the user with the Tableau platform, with a primary focus on Tableau Public, a free version of Tableau's desktop software.

64 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Tableau for Planners: Introduction

Tableau for Planners: Introduction

Instructor: Sean Maguire

This course will introduce general principles of data visualization and orient the user with the Tableau platform. Learn how to connect to a data set in Microsoft Excel, understand general principles of a relational database, and start building basic worksheets and dashboards.

56 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Urban Design for Planners 3: Neighborhoods and Centers

Urban Design for Planners 3: Neighborhoods and Centers

Instructor: Emily Talen

This course demonstrates how to delineate a set of neighborhoods and neighborhood centers for a given area and suggests design improvements that enhance neighborhood centers.

59 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
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
SketchUp 2016 for Planners: Site Planning

SketchUp 2016 for Planners: Site Planning

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

This course introduces intermediate SketchUp skills, like the program's geolocation functions, and demonstrates how to create more complex models of planned projects or developments.

39 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
SketchUp 2016 for Planners: Introduction

SketchUp 2016 for Planners: Introduction

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

This course introduces how planners and architects represent three-dimensional objects in two-dimensions, with step-by-step instructions for creating and using simple 3D models.

44 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
AutoCAD for 3D Modeling

AutoCAD for 3D Modeling

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Most planners and designers don't use just one drawing or visualization program. In this course you'll learn how to create 3D drawings in AutoCAD and how to use AutoCAD in concert with other programs, such as Adobe Illustrator and Sketchup, to create illustrative plan, section, and perspective views.

66 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Visual Simulation: Rendering Styles and Presentation with SketchUp

Visual Simulation: Rendering Styles and Presentation with SketchUp

Instructor: Mike Ernst

Learn to create finalized drawings in SketchUp that look more hand drawn than photorealistic. Using SketchUp and Adobe Photoshop, this course will help you take more control over final images than possible when only exporting from SketchUp.

29 Mins
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD
Visual Simulation: Advanced Rendering in SketchUp

Visual Simulation: Advanced Rendering in SketchUp

Instructor: Mike Ernst

In this course, you'll learn to create an advanced rendering of a SketchUp site model, using a free third-party renderer called Kerkythea to design realistic lighting and shading. Then add components to your rendering in Adobe Photoshop.

46 Mins
AICP CM
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
SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 1

SketchUp for Planners - Intermediate Part 1

Instructor: Jaymes Dunsmore

Building on Introductory SketchUp for Planners, this course introduces intermediate SketchUp users to the program’s geolocation functions and demonstrates how to create more complex models of planned projects or developments. Additionally, this course illustrates how to create and export video walk-throughs of SketchUp models using the program’s animation features.

54 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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