Pedestrian Planning | Planetizen Courses

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

cars in traffic emitting pollution

Transportation Planning: Effects on the Environment, Health, and Social Justice

Richard Willson

57 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

sculpture in an urban plaza

Design for Peace and Democracy

Kristin Faurest

50 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

crosswalk intersection painted with rainbow colors

Tactical Urbanism: How It's Done

96 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

busy street with pedestrians, cars, and streetlights in New York

Designing the Megaregion

Jonathan Barnett

65 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

Car crashed into interstate wall with firefighters and people pointing.

Walkable City 3: The Safe Walk (A)

77 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

aerial view of ancient city grid

The American City, Part 1: A Brief History of the Regular Grid

Mark David Major

47 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

aerial of denver with buildings and transit

Equitable Transit Oriented Development

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

metro train with buildings in background

Transportation Planning: Land Use and Transportation Systems

Richard Willson

62 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

Bus departs busbay in town center

Planning Communities for Maximum Transit Access

75 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

bicyclists cross bridge in park with houston skyline in background

Greening the Neighborhood: An Introduction to LEED-ND

51 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

pedestrian traffic signal with text "Getting There"

58 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

Bright walkway inbetween buildings with palm trees and a man walking in the background in Dubai

Walkable City 5: The Comfortable Walk

66 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

aerial view of los angeles at night

The American City, Part 2: The Invention of a New Scale

Mark David Major

50 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

Rendering of a mixed use development with a theatre, restaurant, and residential units above

Suburban Remix: Creating the Next Generation of Urban Places

63 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

aerial view of cars at large intersection

Transportation Planning: Travel Behavior Principles and Modelling Approaches

Richard Willson

55 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

A grade-separated roundabout in the Netherlands

Introduction to Dutch Network Planning

63 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

park with city skyline in background

Greening the Neighborhood: Accelerating Sustainability with LEED-ND

52 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

bicyclists with city bus in background in santa monica

Incorporating the Sustainable Development Goals into the Planning Process

66 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

Park on the historic walkable city wall of the Italian city of Lucca in the Pisa region

Walkable City 6: The Interesting Walk

77 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

aerial image of portland oregon

The American City, Part 3: Learning from the Grid

Mark David Major

53 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

mixed-use development with people walking, retail stores

Walkable Density: Building Livable, Equitable, and Resilient Communities

60 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

aerial view of cars on highway

Transportation Planning: Strategies for Working with Roadway Capacity

Richard Willson

63 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

car-free modern condominiums

Walking Towards Inclusion

41 Mins

AICP CM

exterior of leed building

Greening the Neighborhood: LEED-ND Core Concepts

29 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

Top Pedestrian Planning Instructors

Richard Willson

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

Jeff Speck

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

David Dixon

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

Eliot Allen

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

Lennart Nout

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

Kristin Faurest

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

Mark David Major

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

Adam Fine

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

Geoffrey Ferrell

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

Jun Wang

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

John Hersey

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

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

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

Lisa Nisenson

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

Mike Lydon

Mike Lydon is a Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative.

Nick Falbo

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

Jarrett Walker

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

Elizabeth Doerr

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

Lynn Peterson

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

Kayla Hunter

Kayla is an experienced non-profit professional who works with at-risk youth to reimagine unused, neglected spaces...

Angie Schmitt

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

Lance Freeman

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

Dave Amos

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

Chris Holtkamp

Chris Holtkamp is a certified planner and is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning at the...

Jonathan Barnett

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

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All Pedestrian Planning 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.

4.28

59 Mins

AIA CES

AICP CM

CNU-A

SACPLAN CPD

Urban Design for Planners 8: Parking and Traffic

Instructor: Emily Talen

The final course in the Urban Design for Planners series addresses the automobile as part of the urban fabric. The storage of cars and high levels of congestion can be very detrimental to neighborhoods, but good design can mitigate those negative effects.

4.20

90 Mins

AICP CM

CNU-A

LA CES