How a project is funded may be one of the most important, if challenging, aspects of planning. Get down to the nuts and bolts with courses on fiscal analysis, real estate financing, and other relevant economic concepts.
All Financing Courses
Resilience Planning for Floods
Instructor: Chris Holtkamp
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.
Area-Based Location Optimization: Urban Green Space Selection
Instructor: Kevin Credit
By the end of this course you will understand the basic principles of area-based location optimization and be able to solve the knapsack, threshold, and shape problems using LINGO software. The course also shows how to map the results of these skills in QGIS.
Calculating the Benefits of Parks, Trails, and Open Space
Instructor: Todd J. Poole
This course provides examples of how to calculate market and non-market values of parks, trails, and open space, as well as how to identify potential revenue-generating opportunities for long-term maintenance and operation.