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Innovative Housing Solutions for Ukraine: Transforming Crisis into Sustainable Communities
This course explores innovative housing projects in Ukraine addressing urgent needs caused by the displacement of millions of Ukrainians. It highlights the CO-HATY project, providing emergency and long-term housing, and the Vid Sertsya Budova initiative that aims to create a sustainable 15-minute city for 25,000+ residents.- Antonella Salmeron Roben, AICP
- Tetyana Samiliv
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Housing Needs in Canada from an Indigenous Lens
Housing is a human right, yet Indigenous Peoples in Canada face significant challenges with homelessness and inadequate housing both on- and off-reserve. This course will explore these issues, share insights from research projects and lived experiences, and examine urban, suburban, and rural housing considerations to help planners address these disparities.#9303625
Sustainable and Equitable Living by Default: Planning for Passive Homes
The course explores the concept, history, and global movement of Passive House. It highlights urban and rural case studies, enabling environments like zoning and building codes, and the pivotal role of planners in supporting sustainable housing solutions.- Carol Brobeck, AICP
- Andrew Gast-Bray, AICP
- Jing Zhang, FAICP
#9303632CM | 1
Seven Fast and Fun Presentations
Seven concise, 10-minute presentations delivered by diverse professionals.- Neal Turpin, AICP
- Wendy Saunders
- Imran Ali Sultan
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From City to Nature: Housing Experiences in Five Different Countries
The course will explore diverse housing experiences from Egypt, Honduras, Pakistan, Mexico, and China, discussing planning strategies and management practices to address housing needs and challenges in urban areas with different densities and protected natural regions. Lessons learned will be presented.- None
#9303622CM | 1
Improving Housing at the Local Level — Insight from Canada's Housing Accelerator Fund
Canada’s unique supply-focused housing program, Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF), incentivized municipalities to put forward ambitious action plans to remove barriers to housing supply, increase housing diversity and address affordability. This course offers insights into the over 700 community-led HAF planning initiatives.- Cleopatra Corbett
- Daniel Kingsbury
- Michael Kolber, AICP
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Navigating the 'E-Word' Across Conservative Landscapes: The Quiet Controversy of ‘Equity’ in Planning
Explore how EDI — an essential element in ensuring fair access to resources — can provoke debate in conservative areas. We’ll discuss what happens when these terms become contentious and how planners can navigate these challenges using alternative language to build trust and foster collaboration.- Samantha Castro, AICP
- Caleb Knutson
- Daniel Besinaiz
- Laura Everitt, AICP
#9301153CM | 1Eq | 1Esri
Getting Information from a GIS Map
By mapping data, you can use your strongest sense, your vision, to see patterns that are otherwise hidden in tables of numbers and facts. This course shows you how to create a map that reveals the hidden meaning in data.#9275922Esri
Building the Foundation for Green Infrastructure Planning
Green infrastructure planning involves the identification and protection of intact habitat cores. This course will get you started with two green infrastructure apps. You will learn how to select and prioritize local habitat cores according to your project goals.#9276745Esri
Introduction to Green Infrastructure
Green infrastructure is a strategically planned and managed network of open spaces, natural lands, wildlife habitats, parks, and other assets. This course will get you started with one of three green infrastructure apps and teach you basic questions to consider when beginning the design process.#9276742Esri
ArcGIS GeoPlanner: Evaluating Plans
This course will get you started with using ArcGIS GeoPlanner to compare scenarios against key performance indicators. You will learn how to use ArcGIS GeoPlanner to share your design with ArcGIS Online stakeholders, and other decision-makers.#9276748Esri
ArcGIS Urban Basics
In this course, you will learn about the benefits of ArcGIS Urban and examine an Urban model. The application provides a way to manage your development plans, analyze factors contributing to decisions, and share information with stakeholders.#9276734Esri
ArcGIS Survey123: Creating and Publishing Surveys
In ArcGIS Survey123, the Survey123 website is the central location for creating, managing, and analyzing surveys. In this course, you will learn how to create, publish, and share survey forms through the Survey123 website.#9276754Esri
Location Analytics Using ArcGIS Insights
Build skills to quickly identify data patterns and relationships using drag-and-drop functionality, powerful analysis tools, and interactive maps, charts, and tables. This course provides a solid grounding in ArcGIS Insights capabilities and components.#9276749Esri
Applying the Racial Equity Workflow Using ArcGIS
Many organizations are working toward a commitment to achieving racial equity within their communities. To achieve racial equity, it is important to have the capabilities to analyze inequities and provide change while engaging the community. ArcGIS can play a significant role in assisting organizations in applying the racial equity workflow to address inequities.#9276677Esri
ArcGIS GeoPlanner: Exploring the Green Infrastructure in Your Study Area
Use GeoPlanner for ArcGIS to explore your study area in a different way. This course will get you started using GeoPlanner to consider green infrastructure in your design. You will learn how to use tools to enrich your green infrastructure assets for well-informed planning.#9276746Esri
ArcGIS Urban: Sharing and Collaborating
In this course, you will learn how to share your ArcGIS Urban model with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate collaboration. Enabling collaboration options in your Urban model allows you to share information with others, start discussions, and collect feedback.#9276739Esri
ArcGIS Urban: Creating Urban Design Scenarios
In this course, you will learn how to create projects and plans and then configure these scenarios using development information. Urban design scenarios, which include projects and plans, are a way to visualize developments and analyze metrics.#9276738Esri
ArcGIS GeoPlanner: Designing with Real-Time Feedback
ArcGIS GeoPlanner allows you to evaluate how well your design meets the requirements of your project as you work. This course will get you started using tools to create a comprehensive data-driven plan to meet your design goals.#9276747Esri
ArcGIS Urban: Importing Planning Data
In this course, you will learn about configuring types data and feature layers into an ArcGIS Urban model. An Urban model supports planning data such as space use, land use, and zoning.#9276736Esri
GIS Basics
GIS allows people to visualize and analyze data to help solve spatial problems and make smarter decisions. In this course, learn the fundamental components and capabilities of GIS and discover how ArcGIS can help organizations address business needs.#9276666Esri
Going Places with Spatial Analysis
Gain a deeper understanding of spatial data analysis. This course is for people who know something about data analysis and want to learn how the special capabilities of spatial data analysis provide deeper understanding.#9276678Esri
Getting Started with Spatial Analysis
Spatial analysis helps you to understand your world. Explore how the six categories of spatial analysis can help you answer geographic questions. Navigate these questions using the spatial analysis workflow and learn how to apply it to your own projects.#9276679Esri
ArcGIS Online Basics
ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based geographic information system (GIS) that is used to map data, share content, and collaborate. In this course, you will learn foundational skills for working with ArcGIS Online. You will also learn about ArcGIS Online's potential benefits for you and your organization.#9276663Esri
Integrating Data in ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Pro provides tools to efficiently organize, create, and manage data. In this course, you will learn about some common types of data used for GIS mapping and analysis, and practice adding data to a file geodatabase to support a planned project.#9276676Esri
Getting Started with Mapping and Visualization
In this course, you will explore 2D and 3D information products that you can create using ArcGIS. You will learn how to identify and choose the best information product for your audience and needs.#9276673Esri
Querying Data Using ArcGIS Pro
A single dataset may store thousands of records and querying the dataset is a fast way to find features. Learn the building blocks of a query expression and how to select features that meet one or more attribute criteria.#9276674Esri
Performing Line of Sight Analysis
Some geographic questions can only be answered in 3D. In this course, you will perform line of sight analysis to solve problems and create information that cannot be obtained in 2D.#9276722Esri
ArcGIS Pro Basics
ArcGIS Pro provides the tools to integrate, visualize, analyze, and share your data. This course introduces you to the powerful capabilities of ArcGIS Pro and how it can be used in your work.#9276672Esri
ArcGIS Pro Terminology Guide
A short guide to help you become familiar with ArcGIS Pro. It includes terminology and user interface cross-reference with ArcMap and other ArcGIS Desktop applications.#9276665Esri
Suitability Modeling: Introduction
In this course, you will discover the types of real-world problems that can be addressed with a suitability model. Then, you will learn how to define a problem in terms of an analysis goal and suitability criteria that can be modeled with data. You will also gain an understanding of how to prepare data for a suitability model.#9276681Esri
Suitability Modeling: Creating a Simple Suitability Model
In this course, you will learn how to create a simple suitability model, which produces a binary result that is easy to interpret. You will also learn how to use sensitivity and error analysis to evaluate results.#9276682Esri
Displaying Raster Data in ArcGIS
Learn techniques to display and enhance rasters and imagery in ArcGIS. Learn to appropriately symbolize rasters based on their attributes and intended use, modify raster properties to support better visualization and interpretation, and apply out-of-the-box appearance functions to enhance the viewing experience.#9276730Esri
Understanding Spatial Relationships
Using the Overlay toolset in ArcGIS Pro, GIS professionals can easily perform analysis to discover and quantify the spatial relationships between and among features. This web course will introduce you to spatial relationships and the tools available for describing them.#9276680Esri
Exploring 3D Features Using ArcGIS 3D Analyst
This course explores the spatial analysis approach to help you understand when 3D data and analysis are required. You will learn how specific types of input data are used for 3D analysis methods and practice 3D proximity and visibility analysis.#9276719Esri
Introduction to 3D Visualization
Visualizing data in a 3D environment allows for realistic visualizations, can offer a different perspective, and can aid in identifying patterns and trends that may not be available in a 2D environment.#9276718Esri
Performing Viewshed Analysis in ArcGIS Pro
The Viewshed tool visualizes visible areas from a vantage point. This tool has many practical uses, including how to locate guard towers, fire watch towers, or event surveillance. In this course, you will learn how to adjust the tool for your analysis.#9276721Esri
Symbolizing Map Layers
Maps communicate important information about features on the earth. However, without good use of symbols, the maps will not be effective. This course teaches how to best symbolize your map data so that your audience gets the information that it needs.#9276675Esri
Imagery in Action
This course is for anyone who wants to learn — or learn more — about the many uses of imagery, the many types of imagery, and the rapidly growing integration of imagery with GIS.#9276731Esri
Get Started with ArcGIS Quick Capture
The ArcGIS QuickCapture app makes collecting and sharing field observations simple and fast. In this course, see how organizations are using QuickCapture for rapid data capture from moving ground- or air-based vehicles.#9276755Esri
ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro Basics
While ArcGIS Pro can answer a broad range of spatial questions, Business Analyst can answer questions that are specific to business applications. In this course, you will learn about everything provided with the ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro extension, how to use it to answer business-related questions, and the workflow for evaluating a site.#9276751Esri
ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro: Analytics
Using ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro, you can easily enrich existing GIS data and perform business-based analysis using many of the tools available in the ArcGIS Pro interface. This course introduces you to the process for performing market analysis tasks using Business Analyst Pro.#9276752Esri
ArcGIS Pro: An Overview of 3D Analysis
This session provides an overview of the wide range of 3D analysis techniques available in ArcGIS Pro including surface modeling, 3D feature creation and analysis, visibility assessment, and volumetrics.#9276717Esri
ArcGIS Survey123 Basics
In this course, you will learn how to use ArcGIS Survey123 to create surveys, get answers, and analyze results. You will also explore the various components that make up ArcGIS Survey123 and learn how these components fit into the ArcGIS Survey123 workflow.#9276753Esri
ArcGIS Urban: Modifying the Settings of an Urban Model
In this course, you will learn about managing the Urban model settings and using 3D base layers to create a digital twin. The 3D base layers create a digital twin of your city in the model and become the foundation for your urban plans and projects.#9276737
Planning, Mitigating, and Advocating for Community Resilience
Hazard mitigation planning can be an effective tool for building holistic and lasting community resilience. Yet all too often, planners may have little if any role in developing and implementing mitigation plans.- Joseph DeAngelis, AICP
#9276763CM | 1.75
Breaking Barriers: Securing Federal Investments in Housing Planning & Production
Hear from HUD Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development Marion McFadden, as she shares critical updates on the PRO Housing program and new opportunities through the Legacy Challenge, aimed at supporting communities to increase housing supply through planning-led zoning reform.- Marion McFadden
- Danielle Sitzman, AICP
- Erika Kubly, AICP
#9296828CM | 1
Unleashing the Potential of ChatGPT in Planning Practice
ChatGPT is taking the world by storm. How can you use this tool effectively and responsibly? Experience generative AI’s potential for planning practice and hear how one U.S. city is already exploring its use.Chicago, Illinois- Thomas Sanchez, AICP
- Lian Plass, AICP
- Santiago Garces
- Ann Dillemuth, AICP
#9274131CM | 1.50
The Global Challenge of Planning for Housing
The housing supply crisis is an international challenge. Planners and policymakers in countries around the globe are grabbling with how to increase housing diversity, attainability, and equity. The Presidents of APA, the Royal Town Planning Institute, and the Canadian Institute of Planners will talk about what’s happening in their respective countries and how planners are rising to the challenge.- Jason Jordan
- Angela Brooks, FAICP
- Lindsey Richards
- Dan Huang
- Andrea Harris
- Darren Crombie
#9290112CM | 0.75
Leading with Empathy
In the wake of the pandemic, emerging work culture focuses on the power of infusing leadership with empathy. Empathy leaves space for genuine emotion at work and humanizes the workforce.Chicago, Illinois- Corrin Hoegen Wendell, FAICP
- Silvia Vargas, FAICP
#9271368CM | 1