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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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Crime and Urban Planning in the United States

51 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Retail Facilities

55 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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58 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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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
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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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

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Introduction to Healthy Communities

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

66 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Comprehensive Planning for Healthy Communities

78 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Planning for Universal Design

46 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

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.

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

46 Mins

CIP
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Resilience Planning for Heat and Drought Events

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

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

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...

Lindsay Malbon

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

Qian He

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

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

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

Matt Raimi

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

Lauren Dunning

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

Jeff Speck

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

Kristin Faurest

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

Michael Manville

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

Jason Neville

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

Seema Thomas

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

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...

Chris Holtkamp

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

Kevin Lo

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

James Brasuell

James Brasuell is the managing editor of Planetizen.

William Fulton

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

Scott Frazier

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

Mariela Alfonzo

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

Allison Arieff

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

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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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Resilience Planning for Heat and Drought Events

Instructor: Chris Holtkamp

Learn how cities can prepare their infrastructure and social services for heat waves and droughts in a warming world.

4.40

85 Mins

CIP

AIA CES

AICP CM

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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix it

Instructor: Nolan Gray

Nolan Gray presents the complex history of zoning regulation, showing how major legislative decisions led to the country's current state of car reliance, sprawl, and inequity. Now, zoning reform is in the air. But why stop at mere reform?

4.53

67 Mins

AIA CES

AICP CM

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American Architectural Styles

Instructor: Meredith Johnson

This course traces the history of American architectural styles and discusses how to identify styles for historic preservation projects.

4.53

71 Mins

AIA CES

AICP CM