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

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Landscape Design for Social Sustainability, Part 2

Kristin Faurest

53 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Calculating the Benefits of Parks, Trails, and Open Space

Todd J. Poole

34 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Design for Peace and Democracy

Kristin Faurest

50 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Area-Based Location Optimization: Urban Green Space Selection

Kevin Credit

48 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Designing the Built Environment for People With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Kristin Faurest

54 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Planning a Municipal Wayfinding System

Adam Fine

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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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

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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

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Cityscape view of buildings, roads, highways, and sea

Decking Highways: Reconnecting Communities

David Dixon

51 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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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

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Designing a Wayfinding System

Adam Fine

58 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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person standing in front of a colorful mural

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

Kayla Hunter

59 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park.

History of U.S. Landscape Architecture, Part 1

Kristin Faurest

64 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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History of U.S. Landscape Architecture, Part 2

Kristin Faurest

61 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
AIA CES
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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Illustrator for Planners - Advanced

Instructor: Mike Ernst

Adobe Illustrator is widely recognized among design professionals as the premier vector drawing software, with many valuable design and mapping applications for urban planning. This course builds upon the Intermediate Illustrator for Planners course, going into more detail on how the program can be used for logo design, map making and other uses.

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100 Mins

AICP CM

CNU-A

SACPLAN CPD

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