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About the Course

This course will provide students with an introduction to sustainable regional principles, regional planning concepts and evaluate regional transportation system issues. This will be achieved through dynamic video lectures, practical case studies and the evaluation of practices for success. These will include discussions of the importance of the regional plan, how to engage community involvement, the importance of understanding a development transect and others. Strategies for growth priorities, along with consideration of available housing and food security will also be addressed. The concepts of providing a rural preserve and a rural reserve will be evaluated and mapping of key aspects of the region, such as neighborhoods and districts will be explained. Evaluation of regional transportation systems will be addressed including multi-mobile balance and building choices into the transportation system modes. The considerations for including a regional railway system along with accommodating user mobility and accessibility will be explored. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Formulate the relationship between regional principles, smart growth, and sustainability. - Evaluate growth priorities, community involvement and scale of governance to achieve sustainable smart growth. - Evaluate and explain regional mapping of rural preserves, rural reserves, neighborhoods, and districts as important tools in regional smart growth planning. - Describe the implications of mapping corridors and regional centers to the overall smart growth planning at the regional level. This course is for : - Government Officials involved planning, designing, monitoring, enforcement, and assessment of sustainable project developments at the local, state, and federal level. - Private sector companies in the transportation and municipal design and construction business. - Architects interested in advancing sustainable concepts for cities and communities. - Foundations, associations, and other NGOs that support smart growth strategies. - Academic faculty and students studying and researching community sustainability and resilience. - Private citizens interested in improving their communities and living conditions. The following list identifies background knowledge that will help you succeed in this course. - helpful to have a general understanding of how public/private projects are planned and implemented - have a strong interest or experience in planning and developing regional sustainable development plans - familiar with how government organizations function in the areas of transportation planning and project development - served as a volunteer committee member or leader on regional transportation projects and/or regional policy development initiatives - have a background and interest in environmental protection plans and projects - a general knowledge of regional transportation project planning and implementation - general knowledge or experience in public participation in governmental policy development - a strong interest and/or experience in improving the urban environment for the benefit of its citizens - have a general knowledge of legal and policy issues involved in sustainable development - have experience or general knowledge of social equity issues...

Top reviews

SA

Jun 11, 2023

This is an extremely insightful course. I'm hoping to apply this knowledge one day in my third world home country and improve the cities back home.

RH

Mar 16, 2023

Thank you for this course, it lays out the key concepts and goes over an example. It helped me grow more interest and grounding in the topic.

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By Razak B B

May 3, 2023

Very good course. Indeed it helps me to understand sustainability in built environment holistically. However I still need to complete another 2 courses in this specialization course; Sustainable Neighbourhoods and Sustainable Transportation Networks and Streetscapes which are not included for free enrolment in the specialization. I wonder why?

By Miras B

Feb 9, 2024

The Regional Sustainability course provides extensive knowledge of planning principles, smart growth strategies and the importance of community engagement, supported by engaging video lectures and practical examples

By SITI F Z

Nov 16, 2023

This course related to my majority, so this course make me more understand sustainability in context regional planning and transportation regional planning. This course definitely can help thesis.

By Solomon A

Jun 12, 2023

This is an extremely insightful course. I'm hoping to apply this knowledge one day in my third world home country and improve the cities back home.

By Rajani H

Mar 17, 2023

Thank you for this course, it lays out the key concepts and goes over an example. It helped me grow more interest and grounding in the topic.

By Ikram S

Jul 21, 2023

Great opportunity for those poor and needy students who genuinely want to learn and contribute to the betterment of the community.

By Faisal

Dec 29, 2022

Well-designed course and provides valuable insight regarding regional planning in conjunction with transportation facilities .

By Nada A

Jan 30, 2023

This was my first online certificate.

I loved the course, it was very resourceful and very interesting.

By TOLUWALOPE E O

Oct 16, 2022

very intersting and rich. well explained and well understood. would aquire more knowledge here.

By Ainun H

Jul 28, 2024

Informative and insightful course! Really help me to understand more about the topic. Thanks!

By vanooshe g

Mar 27, 2023

that was so inspiring and full of good valuable ideas came to mind by this course

By Brudel C

Apr 17, 2023

This is a very informative course. I recommend it

By Numera N

Jun 1, 2023

topics explained in detail.

By Imane E K

Jul 31, 2024

Perfect for beginners

By RASIYA F A A H R F A A H

Jun 23, 2024

I like it very good

By YEE K M

Mar 30, 2023

Very insightful

By Nildibayev D

Mar 27, 2024

Классный курс

By Jawad A

Nov 4, 2023

amazing

By Weixiang S

Apr 24, 2024

The content is good. But to be honest it is kinda boring. The instructor just reads a slides and nothing more. There is no one to discuss with or answer questions. The slides also have many typos...

By Chris G

Aug 10, 2024

the info was good, but the professor sounded a bit monotone which made it hard to focus at some points, but overall amazing course.

By Deanie W

Jun 16, 2023

It was somewhat thorough, the printed information should more closely match the videos

By Kyle S

Jun 8, 2023

Lots of useful insights, but some are very repetitive.

By Rafidhan A R

Aug 26, 2024

clear and easy to undestand

By Cauchemardevie

Aug 1, 2024

Normally, I always learn something or the other in any course I undertake however this specialization is unique in being banal and cliche. They give very positive and obvious ideas (like plant trees, install solar, encourage public transport, maintain historic buildings, reduce sprawling, etc.). Moreover, they do not delve into policy and techno-commercial aspects that impede such sustainable developments in the first place from happening. They do not explain why some stakeholders have vested interest in developing cities revolving around used based building code and not form based urban development. They do not explain how it can be overcome except for few examples that may not be universally scalable. Lastly, the course is an information dump of repetitive ideas from a professor lacking any sense of personality or humor.

By Emily M

Dec 29, 2022

There was useful information in the course and it was mostly well-organized. Some parts were very repetitive; for example, the video titled More Multimodal Considerations in Week 3 almost entirely repeats information from the previous video about biking, congestion fees, and shared vehicles. Also, the quiz questions are badly proofread and some answers are incorrect (for example, the answers to question 14 and 16 of the quiz for week 4 are incorrect).