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. 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 courses@planetizen.com.

Please Note: If you are already enrolled in a Planetizen Course, you can access your course materials at http://classes.planetizen.com.

Courses currently available include:

PLAN-310: AICP* Exam Preparation Course

Instructor: Jennifer Evans-Cowley, PhD, AICP
Are you ready to take the AICP exam? Planetizen offers a convenient online preparation course to help you successfully prepare for the exam. Now in its sixth year, the Planetizen AICP* Exam Preparation Course provides step-by-step, progressive, and interactive instruction that leads you through specific methodologies, lessons, exercises and sample questions.
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PLAN-110: Introduction to Historic Preservation Planning

Instructor: Hector Abreu
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

Instructors: John Renne, PhD, and Jeff Wood
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-130: The Australian Planning System For Overseas Planners

Instructor: Angus Witherby
With its economy flourishing, Australia has turned to migrants from around the globe to help meet its needs for skilled labor, including a landmark change to the country's immigration laws to enable professional planners to more easily emigrate to Australia. This course will assist people with a non-Australian planning education to understand the life, times, and culture "down under", and provide students with the knowledge to begin seeking work as a planner in Australia. Upon completion of the course, will have a good grounding and understanding of Australian planning systems.
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ECON-201: Economic Thinking for Planners and Developers

Instructor: Peter Gordon, PhD
Developers often complain that planners are taking away their ability to make a project “pencil out”. And in truth, most planners don’t have the economic background to understand what makes a complicated project financially viable. This course goes beyond supply and demand to give you a firm grounding in the economics of land use, including cost-benefit analysis, the economics of mortgages and lending, encouraging business incubators, and more.
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