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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

SZ

Nov 15, 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.

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.

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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 Baimakanov M

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 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 YEE K M

Mar 30, 2023

Very insightful

By Nildibayev D

Mar 27, 2024

Классный курс

By Jawad A

Nov 4, 2023

amazing

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 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).

By Kevin D

Jun 29, 2023

Ok. For context I've taken several coursera courses in Sustainability. This was by far the worst. The lecturer is slow and monotone, no enthusiasm for the material. I ended up listening to all the lectures at 1.5x speed so that it had some pace. In week 3 you can hear frequent phone and laptop alerts going off in the background. You can hear his notes being shuffled with each slide.

I really don't understand who the audience is for this course. It presents the idea that encouraging people to bike or use public transit as revolutionary. Note that all examples in this course are in the US so perhaps targeting mid-sized suburban american town residents?

The week 4 'case study' was not a case study. It's just the lecturer reading a list of objectives and planned policies for Fairfax County Virginia. Not critical evaluation. No comparison to other regions. Just a full hour plus of reading planned policies. The exam on this is brutal because it's looking for remembering the details, not the concepts. Plus a few of the answers are wrong.

There is some good anecdotes, and the slides are actually well made, hence 2 stars, but I honestly wish I'd never started.

By Rashid E

Nov 29, 2022

Concepts were simple and should have been delivered in a more compact way.

Presentation accompanying voiceover was not content rich.

No presentation slides to download. Major concepts could be captured in a simple (ideally downloadable) table for use during the tests.

I didn't want to progress with the specialization after taking the first course

By Ola Z

Jan 23, 2023

I expected something more dynamic and more packed with useful and interesting knowledge. I will try to finish this course but not sure if this is going to happen.

Just small improvements like more dynamic and charismatic lecturer would make this course a great experience ;)

By Daniele R

Oct 29, 2022

With my 2 stars I am not challenging the content of the course, but the form it is developed - very basic and not engaging at all. The lecturer should try to put in the lectures some more passion and involvement.

By Esraa H

Jul 13, 2023

this is a very specific course with extremely local cases and information that doesn't actually benefit people globally

By David I

May 2, 2023

God awful narration but interesting material