Planetizen Courses brings you instruction on video and multimedia tools that can improve planning presentations and boost interest in projects. As more citizens spend time on social media platforms, video production skills can help planners cut through the noise and deliver their message to the community or policymakers.
All Video & Multimedia 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.
Donald Shoup Explains Parking Reform
Instructor: Donald Shoup
Donald Shoup, distinguished research professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA, is shown in this video making a typically funny and engaging presentation at CNU 27 Louisville in 2019. In the presentation, Shoup lays out the key aspects of the parking reforms from his seminal book, The High Cost of Free Parking (2005) and the follow up, Parking and the City (2018).