Planetizen Courses

Planetizen offers a variety of courses covering planning-related topics and taught by experts in the field. These self-paced courses are designed for professionals, students, or concerned citizens looking for quick yet thorough introductions to concepts relevant to their work. Selected courses are eligible for credits from the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP*) Certification Maintenance program. All courses listed below are open for enrollment. For more information or to register for a course, please review the course descriptions and instructor biographies below, or contact info@planetizen.com.

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PLAN-110: Introduction to Historic Preservation Planning

As cities around the world expand and more people move back into older downtowns and inner-ring suburbs, historic preservation serves two important purposes, encouraging a sustained sense of history and culture in the community, while formalizing practical standards for the preservation, rehabilitation, restoration, or reconstruction of historic properties for adaptive use by a new generation.
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PLAN-115: Transit Oriented Development Toolbox

Transit-oriented development (TOD) has gained popularity as a strategy to address a number of urban problems, including traffic congestion, affordable housing shortages, air pollution, and sprawl. Transit Oriented Development Toolbox will be useful to planners, developers, architects, policy makers, students, and advocates.
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PLAN-120: Census 2000, Census 2010, Factfinder, ACS, and Understanding Growth

This course provides professionals with the background and knowledge they need to understand and accurately use data from the decennial Census and the new annual American Community Survey. The wealth of data provided by these two sources can be invaluable to planners in any venue. This course offers a look into how census data and growth are affected by each other, and examines ways planners can use the data to map out where communities are and where they are going.
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PLAN-130: The Australian Planning System For Overseas Planners

PLAN-135: Introduction to Smart Growth

Introduction to Smart Growth is designed for planners, local officials, developers and citizens interested in learning more about smart growth. William Fulton, regarded as one of the nation's leading commentators on urban planning, metropolitan growth, and economic development, provides a thorough introduction to smart growth planning concepts and offers practical analysis of smart growth plans and practices.
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PLAN-145: Planning Ethics

Planning Ethics is a video course taught by acclaimed ethics expert Carol Barrett, AICP. Three video presentations cover the AICP Code of Ethics, standards of ethical judgment, and some of the common ethical challenges planners might face in their day-to-day work. Running just about an hour, this video course is a quick way to brush up your everyday ethics.
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TECH-125: Technology for Planners

This highly-practical course focuses on the convergence of web technology and planning. The course offers insight into how technology is being applied in the field of planning today, as well as a complete overview of the current state of web technology, including discussions about the origin of the Internet, email and mailing lists, blogs, search engines, content management systems, website accessibility, and geographic information systems.
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Google Earth Webinar Series

These three webinars will show you everything you need to know to use Google Earth in planning. Session One will introduce you to Google Earth and explore basic tasks for using Google Earth in planning. Session Two will guide you through the process of preparing a Google Earth presentation for a Planning Commission meeting. Session Three will show you how to use Google Earth Pro for planning analysis. Take each webinar separately, or sign up for the whole series and receive a 10% discount.
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TECH-240: Using Google Maps and Mashups for Planning

This one-hour hands-on webinar will demonstrate how planners can use Google Maps to publish basic geographical information on a custom map, and guide you through the process of creating custom maps using Google Maps. Topics will include adding place markers, lines and shapes to maps, placing photos and videos, importing a data set of map points, and using a map to collaborate with others.
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ECON-201: Economic Thinking for Planners and Developers

Many people report that they have passed through one or more economics classes in their lives. Unfortunately, few remember anything useful. Many do recall graphs and/or formulas, which they barely know how to judge or apply. In contrast, the emphasis in this course will be on applications. The course will focus on economic thinking rather than on economic science.
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PLAN-310: AICP* Exam Preparation Course

PLAN-315: Planning Commissioner Training

Planetizen's AICP* Certification Maintenance (CM) Resources (PLAN-403)

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