Public Health

Urban design, land use, and transportation policy can all affect the overall physical and mental health of communities. Planners impact public health through decisions that affect air quality, housing density, transportation options, land use, access to parks and green space, and more. Understanding public health can help planners make more equitable decisions that improve the lives of families and the sustainability of urban communities.

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Crime and Urban Planning in the United States

Qian He

51 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Retail Facilities

Lauren Dunning

55 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Getting There

58 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Public Transit During Covid-19: Challenges and Lessons

Qian He

42 Mins

AICP CM

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Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Production Facilities

Lauren Dunning

43 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Mindfulness And Self-Care for Urban Planners

Kevin Lo

31 Mins

AICP CM

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Introduction to Lighting and Light Pollution

Lindsay Malbon

79 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Introduction to Healthy Communities

Matt Raimi

72 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
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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Lighting Regulations and Dark Sky Places

Lindsay Malbon

66 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Comprehensive Planning for Healthy Communities

Matt Raimi

78 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Planning for Universal Design

Lance Freeman

46 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

Kayla Hunter

59 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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

Richard Willson

57 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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The Pedestrian Safety Crisis in the U.S.

Angie Schmitt

53 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Landscape Design for Social Sustainability, Part 1

Kristin Faurest

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Transportation Planning: Land Use and Transportation Systems

Richard Willson

62 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Understanding Sanitation Work

Seema Thomas

46 Mins

CIP
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Resilience Planning for Heat and Drought Events

Chris Holtkamp

85 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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Accessory Dwelling Units: Understanding America’s Newest Housing Typology

Jason Neville

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

Jeff Speck

79 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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Women and Cities 4: Gender Equity in the Public Sphere

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

55 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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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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Lindsay Malbon

Lindsay is an urban lighting and dark sky educator. Her lighting research has been featured in...

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Qian He

Dr. Qian He is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Maryland, College Park and...

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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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Matt Raimi

Matt Raimi is the president and founder of Raimi + Associates, a Berkeley-based planning, design and...

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Lauren Dunning

Lauren Dunning is a lawyer and public health practitioner whose work has focused on developing strategies...

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Jeff Speck

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

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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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Michael Manville

Michael Manville is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

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Jason Neville

Jason is an experienced urban planner, redevelopment professional, and affordable housing developer.

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Seema Thomas

Seema is an urban development professional focused on developing and expanding innovative and inclusive initiatives to...

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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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Chris Holtkamp

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

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Kevin Lo

Kevin Lo is an Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Management in...

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James Brasuell

James Brasuell is the managing editor of Planetizen.

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William Fulton

William Fulton is the director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and the former mayor...

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Scott Frazier

Scott Frazier is one of the hosts of the L.A. Podcast. Scott is also Director of...

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Mariela Alfonzo

Mariela Alfonzo is the founder and CEO of State of Place. Mariela also has a PhD...

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Allison Arieff

Allison Arieff is the editorial director of SPUR and a columnist for The New York Times.

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Walter Gillis Peacock

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Shannon Van Zandt

Shannon Van Zandt, Ph.D., AICP, is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Master of Urban Planning...

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Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

Instructor: Jeff Speck

Jeff Speck explains his five principal reasons for building more walkable places — Economics, the Environment, Public Health, Equity, and Social Cohesiveness — arming practitioners with a full range of arguments in favor of pro-walkability planning.

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79 Mins

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AICP CM

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The Future of Cities After COVID-19

Instructor: James Brasuell

This virtual panel discussion focuses on the potential for the COVID-19 pandemic to influence the development, demographic, and environmental trends of the future. Speakers: Allison Arieff, William Fulton, Scott Frazier, and Mariela Alfonzo. Moderator: James Brasuell.

4.15

57 Mins

AICP CM

SACPLAN CPD

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