At its core, urban design is the process of deciding how a city will be organized. More than just the physical layout of roads, buildings, open space, and transportation networks, urban design includes decisions about land use, urban form, and neighborhood scale that affect citizens’ access to urban amenities and healthy living environments near amenities and transportation.
All Urban Design Courses
Digital Accessibility for Planners – Web
Instructor: Jonathan Katz-Ouziel
Explore techniques to make their web content created by planners accessible to people with disabilities and compliant with regulations and laws that support disability access. Examples include social media, public outreach and input mechanisms and agency and plan websites.
Digital Accessibility for Planners: Documents – Part 2
Instructor: Jonathan Katz-Ouziel
Part two of this course series demonstrates more advanced techniques planners can use to ensure their documents are accessible.
Digital Accessibility for Planners: Documents - Part 1
Instructor: Jonathan Katz-Ouziel
By the end of this course, planners will be able to address common access barriers in documents they produce. The first course will provide an introduction to the topic and initial skills, while the second course will dive into more "advanced" skills.