Technology can make your planning practice easier, faster, and more effective, but also poses new and unique challenges to city planning. Planetizen Courses features dozens of courses that teach the latest software and tools, as well as emerging concepts and technologies such as smart city tech, autonomous vehicles, and micromobility devices.

Technology Courses

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InDesign for Planners - Advanced
Mike Ernst
60 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
electronic church sign on street corner
Regulating Electronic Message Centers
James Carpentier
49 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
an image of the concept of data and a city skyline at night
Introduction to Urban Informatics
Amir Hajrasouliha
35 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
3d model created in autocad
AutoCAD for 3D Modeling
Jaymes Dunsmore
66 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
QGIS model of pedestrian shed for urban design course
Urban Design for Planners 3: Neighborhoods and Centers
Emily Talen
59 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
Enhancing Public Participation with Generative AI course image of two people standing over a blue city diagram with the women holding up a cell phone
Enhancing Public Participation with Generative AI
Tom Sanchez
77 Mins
  • CIP
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
vector maps created in adobe illustrator
Illustrator for Planners - Intermediate
Mike Ernst
101 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
screenshot of photoshop manipulation
Photoshop CC for Planners 3: Advanced Techniques
Mike Ernst
62 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
3d model built in CityEngine for urban planning course
CityEngine for Planners 4: Sharing Your Work
Elliot Hartley
77 Mins
  • SACPLAN CPD
buildings created with communityviz
CommunityViz Introduction
Doug Walker
72 Mins
color coded map of Los Angeles using mapbox
Introduction to WebGIS
Yoh Kawano
52 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
A collage of four megacities
History of City Planning 5: The City of Tomorrow
Jason Luger
56 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
aerial view of new york skyline
GIS Fundamentals: An Introduction
Mike Ernst
56 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
sketchup model of housing mix for urban planning course
Urban Design for Planners 4: Mix and Proximity
Emily Talen
66 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
Image of people gathered around a clipboard and papers with AI Ethics, legality, justice, etc words
Generative AI, Ethics, and the Future of Urban Planning
Tom Sanchez
66 Mins
  • CIP
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
vector map of new york created in adobe illustrator
Illustrator for Planners - Advanced
Mike Ernst
100 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
image manipulation created in photoshop
Photoshop CC for Planners 4: Creating Visual Simulations
Mike Ernst
75 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
autonomous vehicles on street
Planning for the Autonomous Future
William Riggs
78 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
downward view of crowd crossing intersection
Introductory Population Analysis with Excel
William Riggs
50 Mins
  • SACPLAN CPD
screenshot of transit map for urban planning course
Building a Transit Map Web App
Yoh Kawano
84 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
a map comparison
Solving Coverage and Location-Allocation Problems
Kevin Credit
81 Mins
  • CIP
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • SACPLAN CPD
gis map of earth
GIS Fundamentals: Projections and Map Design
Mike Ernst
107 Mins
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
sketchup model of cityblocks for urban planning course
Urban Design for Planners 5: Density
Emily Talen
64 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM
  • CNU-A
  • SACPLAN CPD
Photo of a computer user using an accessibility friendly scroller for browsing
Digital Accessibility for Planners: Documents - Part 1
Jonathan Katz-Ouziel, Thomas Hamed
102 Mins
  • AIA CES
  • AICP CM

Top Technology Instructors

Mike Ernst

Mike Ernst is an urban planner and designer whose work has focused on participatory planning, community...

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Jaymes Dunsmore

Jaymes is a planner and urban designer who recently completed a Master in City Planning and...

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Tom Sanchez

Tom Sanchez is a professor of Urban Planning specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Landscape Architecture.

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Emily Talen

Emily Talen is Professor of Urbanism at the University of Chicago. Her research is devoted to...

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Chase Mullen

Chase is the Director of Design Visualization at MIG. With an acute eye for graphics and...

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Elliot Hartley

Elliot Hartley is an internationally recognised geodesign and Esri CityEngine expert.

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Geoff Boeing

Geoff Boeing has a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Ben Schulman

Ben Schulman is a writer and editor based in Chicago, with a focus on architecture, urban...

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William Riggs

William (Billy) Riggs, Ph.D., AICP, LEED AP is a nationally recognized professor, consultant, and strategist.

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Thomas Hamed

Thomas Hamed, AICP is a transportation planner who specializes in commuter transportation and mobility for all...

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Jonathan Katz-Ouziel

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel is an autistic planner, an independent accessibility consultant, and the founder of Opossum House...

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Sean Maguire

Sean is a planning and economic development professional based in New York’s Capital Region.

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Jun Wang

Jun Wang, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at...

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David Rouse

David is a consultant, educator, and author with over 40 years of experience in urban and...

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David Dixon

David is well known for helping create new, mixed-use urban districts (in both cities and suburbs)...

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Amir Hajrasouliha

Amir Hajrasouliha is an architect, urban designer, and city planner with years of professional and academic...

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Sam Blanchard

Sam Blanchard is a Data Scientist at UrbanSim Inc. where he specializes in land use modeling...

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Yoh Kawano

Yoh Kawano works at the UCLA GIS and Visualization Sandbox as a member of the Research...

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Chuck Donley

Mr. Donley is an urban and regional planner who specializes in creating CommunityViz applications. He brings...

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Kevin Credit

Kevin is the Assistant Director for Urban Informatics at the Center for Spatial Data Science at...

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Jason Luger

Jason Luger is a lecturer in City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, College of Environmental...

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JJ Zanetta

JJ is an architectural illustrator working in traditional and digital media.

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Lisa Nisenson

Lisa Nisenson has 20 years of experience and leadership in smart growth, sustainable development and civic...

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James Carpentier

James Carpentier is State and Local Government Affairs Manager with the International Sign Association (ISA).

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InDesign for Planners - Intermediate Sign Up

InDesign for Planners - Intermediate

Instructor: Mike Ernst

Adobe InDesign is widely recognized among design professionals as the premier document layout software, with a number of valuable applications for urban planning. This course builds upon the Introduction to InDesign course, giving you step-by-step instructions on some of the more complex tools that come with InDesign CS6.

4.23
73 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
InDesign for Planners - Advanced Sign Up

InDesign for Planners - Advanced

Instructor: Mike Ernst

Adobe InDesign is widely recognized among design professionals as the premier document layout software, with a number of valuable applications for urban planning. This course builds upon the Introduction and Intermediate InDesign courses, giving you step-by-step instructions on my advanced features of InDesign CS6, all built around designing and composing a longer report/plan.

4.31
60 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A

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