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.
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Top Parks & Recreation Instructors
Kristin Faurest
Kristin Faurest is a public garden education and outreach professional, author, and landscape architecture educator, committed...
Adam Fine
Adam is the Director of experiential graphic design at Nova Scotia-based Fathom Studio and has worked...
Lindsay Malbon
Lindsay is an urban lighting and dark sky educator. Her lighting research has been featured in...
David Dixon
David is well known for helping create new, mixed-use urban districts (in both cities and suburbs)...
Kayla Hunter
Kayla is an experienced non-profit professional who works with at-risk youth to reimagine unused, neglected spaces...
Chris Holtkamp
Chris Holtkamp is a certified planner and is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning at the...
Kevin Credit
Kevin is the Assistant Director for Urban Informatics at the Center for Spatial Data Science at...
Todd J. Poole
Todd Poole is president, founder, and managing principal of 4ward Planning Inc., with more than 24...
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The American City, Part 1: A Brief History of the Regular Grid
Instructor: Mark David Major
Learn why the regular grid has been a standard part of the town planning vocabulary around the world for nearly five millennia.
Economic Thinking for Planners: Cities, Externalities, and Governance
Instructor: Peter Gordon
Through history, people have become better off as they urbanized. This course investigates how and why the quality of life has improved in cities.