This free online course teaches you the diverse aspects and techniques of spatial analysis in regards to urban planning. This free course online course on Urban Planning Criteria covers important aspects of Landscape configuration and composition. This course explains urban growth analysis and teaches you the metrics to asses urban sprawl analysis as well as the patterns of urban growth.The course also teaches the most popular MCDA approaches and the software used in MCDA along with structures and variables involved.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201457 |
| 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 • Explain how landscape composition impacts ecological assessments • Discuss the properties of landscape metrics and how landscape metrics are applied • Describe Urban Sprawl Characterisation • Recall patterns and metrics involved in Urban Sprawl • Define what is Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). • Explain the tools used for MCDA. |
| Course Code | 2444 |

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