History

Planetizen Courses offers historical perspective through courses designed to help planners understand the history of the profession and how essential concepts and ideas in the field were developed and popularized. Learn about the triumphs and failures of past planners and how past decisions continue to shape urban form today.

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Housing and Racial Justice: Current Events Urban Resilience

59 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
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The American City, Part 2: The Invention of a New Scale

Mark David Major

50 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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Sprawling residential neighborhoods with many single family houses.

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix it

Nolan Gray

67 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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City Dreamers

81 Mins

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Planning for Racial Equity

Lance Freeman

55 Mins

CIP
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AICP CM

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The American City, Part 3: Learning from the Grid

Mark David Major

53 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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Findlay market on a colorful street in Ohio.

Landscape Design for Social Sustainability, Part 1

Kristin Faurest

57 Mins

CIP
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AICP CM

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Classical Location Theory

Kevin Credit

169 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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Race, Space, and Planning

Álvaro Huerta

66 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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The American City, Part 4: Complexity and Pattern in the City

Mark David Major

53 Mins

AIA CES

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Roadways for People, Part 1

Lynn Peterson, Elizabeth Doerr

79 Mins

CIP
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AICP CM

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Lewis Mumford on the City 1: The City - Heaven and Hell

29 Mins

AICP CM

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A Brief History of Immigration and Planning

Álvaro Huerta

65 Mins

AIA CES
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Understanding the Great Recession

Peter Gordon

74 Mins

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Design for Peace and Democracy

Kristin Faurest

50 Mins

CIP
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Lewis Mumford on the City 2: The City - Cars or People?

29 Mins

AICP CM

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Women and Cities: Gender Equity, Past and Present

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

54 Mins

CIP
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AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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History of City Planning 1: Ancient Times to the Modern Age (7,500 BC to 1900)

Jason Luger

53 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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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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Lewis Mumford on the City 3: The City and Its Region

30 Mins

AICP CM

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Women and Cities 3: Gender Equity in Private Life

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

54 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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buildings, cars, people on Halsted Street in Chicago in 1900

History of City Planning 2: Modern Ideas of City Planning (1900-1939)

Jason Luger

49 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Lewis Mumford on the City 4: The Heart of the City

29 Mins

AICP CM

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Introduction to Culture and Placemaking

Annalise Fonza

63 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Jason Luger

Jason Luger is a lecturer in City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, College of Environmental...

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Mark David Major

Dr. Mark David Major, AICP, CNU-A is a Professor of Urban Design at the Savannah College...

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Kristin Faurest

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

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Annalise Fonza

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

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Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

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

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Álvaro Huerta

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

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Peter Gordon

Peter Gordon is Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy...

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Thomas Hamed

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

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Jonathan Katz-Ouziel

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

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Elizabeth Doerr

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

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Lynn Peterson

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

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Nolan Gray

M. Nolan Fray is the Research Director for California YIMBY, an expert in urban land-use regulation...

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Qian He

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

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Kayla Hunter

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

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Lance Freeman

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

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Dave Amos

Dave is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cal Poly...

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Meredith Johnson

Meredith is the owner of Johnson Planning and Preservation LLC, a boutique firm that works to...

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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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Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

Instructor: Jeff Speck

Jeff Speck explains his five principal reasons for building more walkable places — Economics, the Environment, Public Health, Equity, and Social Cohesiveness — arming practitioners with a full range of arguments in favor of pro-walkability planning.

4.53

79 Mins

CIP

AIA CES

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Green Infrastructure

Instructor: David Rouse

This course defines green infrastructure, highlights its types and benefits, discusses monetary valuation and financing, and explores its role in addressing climate change, equity, and technological change.

4.33

56 Mins

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Accessory Dwelling Units: Understanding America’s Newest Housing Typology

Instructor: Jason Neville

Explore the latest ADU policy developments from leading American cities, key challenges and opportunities for increasing or limiting ADU production, first-hand examples, and best practices in ADU affordability programs.

4.50

57 Mins

CIP

AIA CES

AICP CM

SACPLAN CPD

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