Parks and open space provide essential public health benefits and are a key part of any healthy, vibrant community. Parks and recreation planners work to ensure that urban residents have access to green space and recreation options.
All Parks & Recreation Courses
Digital Accessibility for Planners – Web
Instructor: Jonathan Katz-Ouziel
Explore techniques to make their web content created by planners accessible to people with disabilities and compliant with regulations and laws that support disability access. Examples include social media, public outreach and input mechanisms and agency and plan websites.
Digital Accessibility for Planners: Documents - Part 1
Instructor: Jonathan Katz-Ouziel
By the end of this course, planners will be able to address common access barriers in documents they produce. The first course will provide an introduction to the topic and initial skills, while the second course will dive into more "advanced" skills.
Measuring Neighborhood Segregation and Diversity
Instructor: Emily Talen
This course reviews the various ways to measure both segregation and diversity at the neighborhood scale.