The organization of food systems determines how and where we grow, raise, process, and distribute food in an industrial society. With a growing percentage of the population living in urban centers and natural resources strained, developing healthier, more sustainable food systems is more important than ever.

Food Systems Courses

vegetables at farmers market
Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Retail Facilities
Lauren Dunning
55 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Production Facilities
Lauren Dunning
43 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
rooftop urban garden with buildings in backgorund
Urban Agriculture
47 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
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Area-Based Location Optimization: Urban Green Space Selection
Kevin Credit
48 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
graphic of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
UN Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of Cities in Implementation
Chris Holtkamp
75 Mins
  • CIP
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD

Top Food Systems Instructors

Lauren Dunning

Lauren Dunning is a lawyer and public health practitioner whose work has focused on developing strategies...

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Chris Holtkamp

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

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Kevin Credit

Kevin is the Assistant Director for Urban Informatics at the Center for Spatial Data Science at...

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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.

4.20
50 Mins
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Gephi for Network Analysis and Visualization

Instructor: Nader Afzalan

Network Analysis helps urban planners, designers, and policy makers explore the dynamics and complexities of social networks and organizations. This course demonstrates the ways you can use the open-source Gephi software to visualize and analyze online social networks.

4.19
121 Mins

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