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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

AIA CES
AICP CM
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Understanding Sanitation Work

46 Mins

CIP
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Resilience Planning for Heat and Drought Events

85 Mins

CIP
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Transportation Planning: Making Transportation Plans—Rationality and Politics

Richard Willson

60 Mins

AIA CES
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Accessory Dwelling Units: Understanding America’s Newest Housing Typology

57 Mins

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Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

79 Mins

CIP
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Transportation Planning: Principles and Practices of Transportation Finance

Richard Willson

62 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
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Women and Cities 4: Gender Equity in the Public Sphere

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

55 Mins

CIP
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The Human Scale

81 Mins

AICP CM
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Women and Cities 5: The Feminist Future City

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

59 Mins

CIP
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Developing a Fact Basis for Hazard Planning

Shannon Van Zandt

62 Mins

SACPLAN CPD

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The Future of Cities After COVID-19

James Brasuell, Allison Arieff, Mariela Alfonzo, Scott Frazier, William Fulton

57 Mins

AICP CM
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Traffic Congestion, Part One: Sources and Responses

Michael Manville

68 Mins

CIP
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Disaster Resilience and Recovery Through Land Use Planning

Walter Gillis Peacock

78 Mins

SACPLAN CPD

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Lewis Mumford on the City 5: The City as Man's Home

31 Mins

AICP CM

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Crime and Urban Planning in the United States

51 Mins

AIA CES
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Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Retail Facilities

55 Mins

AICP CM
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58 Mins

AICP CM
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Public Transit During Covid-19: Challenges and Lessons

42 Mins

AICP CM

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Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Production Facilities

43 Mins

AICP CM
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Mindfulness And Self-Care for Urban Planners

31 Mins

AICP CM

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Introduction to Lighting and Light Pollution

79 Mins

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Introduction to Healthy Communities

72 Mins

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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
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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

What makes good public spaces work, and why are some public spaces underused? Over the course of this film, William Whyte details insights into seven basic factors of successful public spaces: suitable space, interaction with the street, the sun, food, water, trees, and, finally, a term Whyte calls triangulation, or the ability of a public space to bring people together.

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60 Mins

SACPLAN CPD

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