Parks & Recreation

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.

Parks & Recreation Courses

Planning a Municipal Wayfinding System

Adam Fine

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

A dry, cracked river bed baking in the sun.

Resilience Planning for Heat and Drought Events

Chris Holtkamp

85 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

interpretive sign in the foreground with nature and hills in the background

Interpreting Places and Spaces

Adam Fine

56 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

Cityscape view of buildings, roads, highways, and sea

Decking Highways: Reconnecting Communities

David Dixon

51 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

tall trees and mountains with a night sky of stars

Lighting Regulations and Dark Sky Places

Lindsay Malbon

66 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

Designing a Wayfinding System

Adam Fine

58 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

person standing in front of a colorful mural

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

Kayla Hunter

59 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park.

History of U.S. Landscape Architecture, Part 1

Kristin Faurest

64 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

History of U.S. Landscape Architecture, Part 2

Kristin Faurest

61 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

Findlay market on a colorful street in Ohio.

Landscape Design for Social Sustainability, Part 1

Kristin Faurest

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

Landscape Design for Social Sustainability, Part 2

Kristin Faurest

53 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

Calculating the Benefits of Parks, Trails, and Open Space

Todd J. Poole

34 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

Design for Peace and Democracy

Kristin Faurest

50 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

Area-Based Location Optimization: Urban Green Space Selection

Kevin Credit

48 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

Designing the Built Environment for People With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Kristin Faurest

54 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

Top Parks & Recreation Instructors

Kristin Faurest

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

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Adam Fine

Adam is the Director of experiential graphic design at Nova Scotia-based Fathom Studio and has worked...

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Lindsay Malbon

Lindsay is an urban lighting and dark sky educator. Her lighting research has been featured in...

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David Dixon

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

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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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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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Todd J. Poole

Todd Poole is president, founder, and managing principal of 4ward Planning Inc., with more than 24...

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What Is Generative AI and Why It Matters for Urban Planning

Instructor: Tom Sanchez

This course introduces urban planners to Generative AI (GenAI), covering its fundamentals and demonstrating how it can create text, images, videos, and designs to enhance planning practices.

4.37

61 Mins

CIP

AIA CES

AICP CM

Free

Regional Planning Workflows in the UrbanSim Cloud Platform

Instructor: Sam Blanchard

This course reviews the basic land use forecasting workflows that can be completed using the UrbanSim Cloud Platform, as illustrated by a set of case studies.

4.29

57 Mins

Free

Parks & Recreation