Pedestrian Planning

Pedestrian planning prioritizes the safety and comfort of people walking. Planning for pedestrians includes evaluating road conditions, identifying potential dangers and constraints, and developing a comprehensive network of sidewalks and walkways that are accessible to people of all abilities and protect walkers from vehicles and other dangers. With pedestrians dying at increasingly higher rates, it has become clear in recent years that privileging car-centric development has had deadly results, and a paradigm shift is necessary to eliminate traffic deaths and make roadways safer for everyone inside and outside cars.

Pedestrian Planning Courses

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The American City, Part 3: Learning from the Grid

Mark David Major

53 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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Walkable Density: Building Livable, Equitable, and Resilient Communities

David Dixon

60 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Transportation Planning: Strategies for Working with Roadway Capacity

Richard Willson

63 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Walking Towards Inclusion

David Dixon

41 Mins

AICP CM

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Greening the Neighborhood: LEED-ND Core Concepts

Eliot Allen

29 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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U.S. City Planning 101

Dave Amos

46 Mins

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Autonomous vehicle driving in an intersection

Autonomous Vehicles: Technology, Trends and Planning Concerns

Jun Wang

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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The American City, Part 4: Complexity and Pattern in the City

Mark David Major

53 Mins

AIA CES

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Planning a Municipal Wayfinding System

Adam Fine

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Transportation Planning: Making Transportation Plans—Rationality and Politics

Richard Willson

60 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Good Speed by Design: A Network Approach to Traffic Calming

Lennart Nout

58 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Greening the Neighborhood: LEED-ND Metrics

Eliot Allen

65 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Parking Benefit Districts

Donald Shoup

56 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Planning Implications and Design for AV Futures

Jun Wang

52 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Transit Service Design 101

Emily Yasukochi

52 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Designing a Wayfinding System

Adam Fine

58 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Transportation Planning: Principles and Practices of Transportation Finance

Richard Willson

62 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Principles of Intersection Design

Lennart Nout, Nick Falbo

51 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Greening the Neighborhood: LEED-ND Globally and v.4 Update

Eliot Allen

51 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Right of Way: How Racial and Class Disparities Created a Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths

96 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Beyond Complete Streets for Walking and Biking

William Riggs

54 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

Kayla Hunter

59 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Incremental Code Reform: Enabling Better Places

Lynn Richards, Susan Henderson

59 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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The Good Street: A New Methodology for Balancing Place and Flow

Lennart Nout

55 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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Richard Willson

Richard Willson is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at California State...

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Jeff Speck

Jeff Speck is a city planner who advocates internationally for more walkable cities.

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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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Eliot Allen

Eliot Allen, certified, LEED AP-ND, is an urban planner and Principal with Criterion Planners of Portland...

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Lennart Nout

Lennart is an urban mobility design consultant, specializing in design and planning of bicycle networks and...

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Kristin Faurest

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

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Mark David Major

Dr. Mark David Major, AICP, CNU-A is a Professor of Urban Design at the Savannah College...

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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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Geoffrey Ferrell

Geoffrey is one of the originators of the modern practice of Form-Based Codes. His work ranges...

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Jun Wang

Jun Wang, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at...

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John Hersey

John is a planner with two decades of experience critically evaluating and advancing transit-oriented development as...

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Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

Katrina is a lecturer, researcher, and advocate for heart-centered cities. Her work focuses on human behavior...

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Lisa Nisenson

Lisa Nisenson has 20 years of experience and leadership in smart growth, sustainable development and civic...

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Mike Lydon

Mike Lydon is a Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative.

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Nick Falbo

Nick is an urban transportation planner specializing in the design of transportation networks, spaces for people...

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Jarrett Walker

Jarrett Walker is an international consultant in public transit network design and policy, with 25 years...

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Elizabeth Doerr

Elizabeth Doerr is a writer with expertise and awareness around social and racial justice issues and...

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Lynn Peterson

Lynn Peterson is a nationally recognized transportation and land use integration expert.

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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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Angie Schmitt

Angie Schmitt is a writer and founder of 3MPH Planning and Consulting, a Cleveland-based firm focused...

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Lance Freeman

Lance Freeman is a Professor in the Urban Planning Program at Columbia University in New York...

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Dave Amos

Dave is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cal Poly...

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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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Jonathan Barnett

Jonathan Barnett is Fellow of the Penn Institute for Urban Research and an Emeritus Professor of...

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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.

4.28

59 Mins

AIA CES

AICP CM

CNU-A

SACPLAN CPD

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CommunityViz Introduction

Instructor: Doug Walker

In this course you will learn practical applications for CommunityViz, one of the world's premiere GeoDesign and planning scenario tools. Planners, resource managers, local and regional governments, and others use CommunityViz to help them make decisions about development, land use, transportation, conservation and more.

4.21

72 Mins

Pedestrian Planning