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.
All Technology Courses
Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
Instructor: Jeff Speck
Jeff Speck explains his five principal reasons for building more walkable places — Economics, the Environment, Public Health, Equity, and Social Cohesiveness — arming practitioners with a full range of arguments in favor of pro-walkability planning.
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.
Designing a Wayfinding System
Instructor: Adam Fine
Learn how to create a comprehensive wayfinding signage system for your municipality from start to finish.
Resilience Planning for Floods
Instructor: Chris Holtkamp
This course builds on the "Introduction to Resilience Planning" course and uses the approach presented there as the framework for addressing flood threats in communities.