This free online urban planning course explains how smart public realm management ensures sustainability and fairness. Public realm management covers the design and maintenance of public spaces and is essential for creating vibrant and sustainable cities. This urban planning course examines the role of administration, upkeep and design principles in the public realm, which includes parks, streets, plazas and other publicly accessible areas. We explain how to include sustainable and resilient practices in public realm management to foster fairness for all.
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • List the strategies for asset and resource management and maintenance • Define ‘public realm’ and ‘public realm management’ • Discuss the importance of public realm management • Outline various planning and design principles • Identify the considerations relevant to public realm design • Discuss the role of accessibility and inclusivity in driving public realm design • Identify urban planning practices implemented to ensure sustainability and resilience • Explain how energy efficiency and renewables help to mitigate the effects of global climate change • Describe the role of waste management and define ‘circular economy’ • Outline the legal and regulatory framework governing public realm management • Outline the strategies used to promote equity in the public realm |
| Course Code | 6093 |

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