Equity | Planetizen Courses

The design of the built environment, land use and zoning decisions, and transportation policy can all have major impacts on the economic, physical, and mental health of communities and their access to resources and opportunities. A focus on equity in planning acknowledges the historical injustices that still pervade much public policy in the U.S. and seeks to build urban systems that enhance social equity and meaningful civic engagement.

Equity Courses

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Right of Way: How Racial and Class Disparities Created a Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths

96 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Decking Highways: Reconnecting Communities

51 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Traffic Congestion, Part Two: Congestion Pricing

Michael Manville

56 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

59 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Planning for Universal Design

46 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

79 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Introduction to Culture and Placemaking

63 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Landscape Design for Social Sustainability, Part 1

Kristin Faurest

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Planning for Racial Equity

55 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Generative AI, Ethics, and the Future of Urban Planning

66 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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The Theory and Practice of Culture and Placemaking

71 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

The I-5 in Portland, Oregon.

Roadways for People, Part 1

Lynn Peterson, Elizabeth Doerr

79 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Race, Space, and Planning

66 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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US Disability Access Laws for Planners

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel, Thomas Hamed

109 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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Introduction to Transit Oriented Development

51 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Leadership in Planning: Strategic Decision-Making in the Public Interest

60 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Roadways for People, Part 2

Lynn Peterson, Elizabeth Doerr

54 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Understanding Sanitation Work

46 Mins

CIP
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Equitable Transit Oriented Development

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Transportation Planning: The Role of Transportation Systems in Social and Economic Life

Richard Willson

47 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Navigating the Ethical Landscape for AI in Urban Planning

66 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Women and Cities: Gender Equity, Past and Present

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

54 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Prospects for Zoning Reform

96 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Measuring Neighborhood Segregation and Diversity

56 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A

Top Equity Instructors

David Dixon

David is well known for helping create new, mixed-use urban districts (in both cities and suburbs)...

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

Katrina is a lecturer, researcher, and advocate for heart-centered cities. Her work focuses on human behavior...

Tom Sanchez

Tom Sanchez is a professor of Urban Planning specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Landscape Architecture.

Elizabeth Doerr

Elizabeth Doerr is a writer with expertise and awareness around social and racial justice issues and...

Lynn Peterson

Lynn Peterson is a nationally recognized transportation and land use integration expert.

Kristin Faurest

Kristin Faurest is a public garden education and outreach professional, author, and landscape architecture educator, committed...

Qian He

Dr. Qian He is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Maryland, College Park and...

John Hersey

John is a planner with two decades of experience critically evaluating and advancing transit-oriented development as...

Annalise Fonza

Dr. Annalise Fonza is a Lecturer in the Department of Urban & Regional Planning at the...

Jason Neville

Jason is an experienced urban planner, redevelopment professional, and affordable housing developer.

Kayla Hunter

Kayla is an experienced non-profit professional who works with at-risk youth to reimagine unused, neglected spaces...

Lance Freeman

Lance Freeman is a Professor in the Urban Planning Program at Columbia University in New York...

Richard Willson

Richard Willson is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at California State...

Thomas Hamed

Thomas Hamed, AICP is a transportation planner who specializes in commuter transportation and mobility for all...

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel is an autistic planner, an independent accessibility consultant, and the founder of Opossum House...

Jeff Speck

Jeff Speck is a city planner who advocates internationally for more walkable cities.

Jennifer Raitt

Jennifer Raitt is the Executive Director of the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments. She has nearly...

David Rouse

David is a consultant, educator, and author with over 40 years of experience in urban and...

Jenny Schuetz

Jenny is a Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro and an expert in housing policy.

Michael Manville

Michael Manville is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Seema Thomas

Seema is an urban development professional focused on developing and expanding innovative and inclusive initiatives to...

Álvaro Huerta

Dr. Álvaro Huerta is a Religion and Public Life Organizing Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and...

Carlos Zapata

Carlos Zapata is a Sustainability and ESG professional who is a graduate of Yale's MBA in...

Chris Holtkamp

Chris Holtkamp is a certified planner and is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning at the...

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All Equity Courses

The American City, Part 2: The Invention of a New Scale

Instructor: Mark David Major

Understand how the physical characteristics of block size and street length distinguish American cities from earlier models of urbanism, and the implications of these physical characteristics for sustainability in the 21st century.

4.30

50 Mins

AIA CES

AICP CM

The American City, Part 1: A Brief History of the Regular Grid

Instructor: Mark David Major

Learn why the regular grid has been a standard part of the town planning vocabulary around the world for nearly five millennia.

4.13

47 Mins

AIA CES

AICP CM

Economic Thinking for Planners: Cities, Externalities, and Governance

Instructor: Peter Gordon

Through history, people have become better off as they urbanized. This course investigates how and why the quality of life has improved in cities.

4.17

56 Mins

AICP CM

SACPLAN CPD