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
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
Instructor: Emily Talen
Urban planners and urban designers are interested in building places that embody beauty and hope. In this course, Emily Talen, PhD, FAICP, presents free urban design software tools that can help urban planners and urban designers visualize changes in the built environment to support the overarching goal of creating better places.
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.