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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Transportation Planning: Land Use and Transportation Systems
Richard Willson
62 Mins
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Understanding Sanitation Work
Seema Thomas
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Resilience Planning for Heat and Drought Events
Chris Holtkamp
85 Mins
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Transportation Planning: Making Transportation Plans—Rationality and Politics
Richard Willson
60 Mins
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Accessory Dwelling Units: Understanding America’s Newest Housing Typology
Jason Neville
57 Mins
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Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
Jeff Speck
79 Mins
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Transportation Planning: Principles and Practices of Transportation Finance
Richard Willson
62 Mins
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Women and Cities 4: Gender Equity in the Public Sphere
Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman
55 Mins
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The Human Scale
81 Mins
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Women and Cities 5: The Feminist Future City
Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman
59 Mins
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Developing a Fact Basis for Hazard Planning
Shannon Van Zandt
62 Mins
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The Future of Cities After COVID-19
James Brasuell, Allison Arieff, Mariela Alfonzo, Scott Frazier, William Fulton
57 Mins
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Traffic Congestion, Part One: Sources and Responses
Michael Manville
68 Mins
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Disaster Resilience and Recovery Through Land Use Planning
Walter Gillis Peacock
78 Mins
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Lewis Mumford on the City 5: The City as Man's Home
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Crime and Urban Planning in the United States
Qian He
51 Mins
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Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Retail Facilities
Lauren Dunning
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Getting There
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Public Transit During Covid-19: Challenges and Lessons
Qian He
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Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Production Facilities
Lauren Dunning
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Mindfulness And Self-Care for Urban Planners
Kevin Lo
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Introduction to Lighting and Light Pollution
Lindsay Malbon
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Introduction to Healthy Communities
Matt Raimi
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Right of Way: How Racial and Class Disparities Created a Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths
96 Mins
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Form-Based Codes 101: Downtowns

Instructor: Mary Madden

Downtowns are the historic center of most American cities. In this course, we will review their role in establishing the past and future character of the city, walking through a series of form-based code case studies across a range of scales and contexts.

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Form-Based Codes 101: Corridors

Instructor: Geoffrey Ferrell

Corridors have historically been a key element of the urban fabric of every American town and city, yet they are also commonly problematic. This course looks at the roots of the problem for examples of how corridors can be designed and coded.

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This course introduces the essential elements of neighborhoods.

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