Sustainable Regional Principles, Planning and Transportation

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, asso...