To make good decisions and actions, an organization and its stakeholders need to know what issues are material to the sustainability performance of the organization. But, to determine what is material, a materiality assessment process is vital.
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Carlos Zapata61 minutes -
Carlos ZapataThis course takes a business-oriented perspective to explore the tradeoffs and synergies between the ecological and financial performance of businesses.45 minutes -
Chris HoltkampBuilding on the first course in this series, Planetizen Courses dives into the variety of ways planners can incorporate the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their communities.
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Chris HoltkampSustainability has become a primary focus of urban planning and community development; however, there can be confusion and lack of consensus about what constitutes sustainability and how to incorporate it into local planning processes.
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Kevin LoThis course focuses on mindfulness and self-care. These are topics that have grown in popularity over the past few years and even more so in the past few months through the pandemic. This course might be slightly different from other courses in that it is practice and application based.
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Kevin LoEmotional intelligence (EQ) is commonly regarded as a critical competence in the workplace, often argued to be more important than either IQ or personality. Conversely, a lack of emotional intelligence can be viewed as a workplace liability.
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Kevin LoExperts acknowledge that culture is a fuzzy construct. However, with the globalization of work, there is a growing imperative to understand cross-cultural differences. One does not even need to leave a country to encounter cross-cultural differences.
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Kevin LoA myriad of dynamics can influence the behavior of individuals in organizations. Some of these influences can happen at the organizational level. Others might be imparted by how specific teams work.
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Donald ShoupIf you're looking for a place to start learning more about the specifics of parking reform, or you're looking for a way to confirm if you might be the next "Shoupista," look no further.
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Kevin CreditPlanners are frequently concerned with siting public facilities to serve the maximum number of people within a maximum given distance or time.
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Working From Home for Planners
Instructor: Andy Boenau
The future of work and the future of education are location independent, and we’re all better off because of it. This course focuses on general remote work tips and three remote work topics at the forefront of urban planners' minds as working from home becomes a new normal in the field of urban planning: productivity, teamwork, and public meetings.
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.
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.
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.
Virtual Reality for Planners 1: Introduction
Instructor: Chase Mullen
Virtual reality presents urban planners with a unique tool to create immersive virtual experiences that can inform visioning processes, design decision-making, and community engagement. Learn about the evolution of virtual reality technology, its key vocabulary and logistics, the benefits of virtual reality over traditional media, and what the future of public engagement may hold.
United States Census 2020: All About Census 2020
Instructor: Chris Williamson
Learn all about the upcoming Census. This course provides an overview of planned operations and discusses the Census schedule, process, products, accuracy, publicity, and jobs.
Crowdsourcing and Urban Planning
Instructor: Kendra Smith
Crowdsourcing is the gathering of ideas, content, voices, and services by leveraging the collective intelligence and wisdom of crowds.
Citizen Science in Urban Planning
Instructor: Kendra Smith
This course introduces planners to citizen science and how citizen science can play a meaningful role in urban planning.
Leadership in Planning: Strategic Decision-Making in the Public Interest
Instructor: Jeff Levine
At the end of this course, you will understand how to turn planning theory into practice in the real world.
Blogging About Planning
Instructor: Claudia Kousoulas
In this course we will review how blogs are used as planning tools to educate and engage participants in community decisions.
The Charrette Way: The Secrets to Collaborative Creativity
Instructor: William Lennertz
This course explores the transformative dynamics taking place in a multiple-day charrette.
Introduction to Charrettes
Instructor: William Lennertz
This course introduces the NCI System, a collaborative, design-based approach to public involvement.
MetroQuest Public Involvement Software: In Practice and In Action
Instructor: Dave Biggs
This course provides an introduction to working with MetroQuest, what it helps planners achieve, and some of its most important features and capabilities. The course also presents a series of case studies to demonstrate the results MetroQuest has achieved for a wide range of planning projects.
Planning and Promoting Your Community Engagement Process
Instructor: Dave Biggs
This course provides you with a step-by-step process for designing an effective public engagement process.
Best Practices for Community Engagement
Instructor: Dave Biggs
This course provides you with solid understanding of the benefits to community engagement, the psychology of public participants, an overview of the tools and tactics to choose from and advice on the creation of a public engagement plan to meet the needs of your projects.
Visual Preference Surveys with StreetSeen
Instructor: Jennifer Evans-Cowley
This course provides an overview of formats and types of visual preference surveys, methodologies, and analyses as well as instructions on how to create and manage surveys with the StreetSeen online interface.
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.
Tactical Urbanism: How It's Done
Instructor: Mike Lydon
From unsanctioned crosswalks to city-led "Pavement-to-Plaza" programs, instructor Mike Lydon describes the success of short-term, temporary projects in influencing long-term physical and policy changes in cities across the United States and Canada.
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.
Planning Ethics
Instructor: Carol D. Barrett
The work of planning for communities is rooted in values, often unexpressed, about the role of government in working for a better future. This course reviews the expectations expressed in the AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and then explores the application of the code in a number of planning ethics case studies. This conversation about building and sustaining an ethical planning organization sets out to define what makes an ethical planning organization and describes steps that planners can take to improve the ethical climate of their organizations.
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