With housing affordability persisting as one of the key problems in urban planning, understanding real estate markets is a valuable skill for planners working in housing and development. Learn about property valuation, real estate debt, and other fundamental concepts.
All Real Estate 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.
Geoanalysis with ArcGIS and Google Earth
Instructor: Jessica White
Combining ArcGIS and Google Earth allows for a convenient, powerful way to create and share professional, accurate spatial visualizations of geographical analysis to a wide audience. This course explores how to prep shape files for ingestion into Google Earth, share city data with the public, and aid in pre-visualizing via geo-referencing around potential development sites.