Updating the Outdated Planning Toolbox
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Learning Outcomes
- Learn how traditional transportation and land use codes and standards drive adverse outcomes for health, safety, and sustainability.
- Get acquainted with new tools, forecast methods, and technologies that work to overcome the weaknesses of outdated planning methods.
- Learn to apply new methods and technologies to key plans such as transit oriented development and Vision Zero.
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Consider this: Despite COVID and Vision Zero investments, traffic fatalities rose 42 percent in 2020. A deeper dive reveals a transportation and engineering system designed to move cars faster. Learn how to find the root causes that constrain planners' ability to produce effective results. Take a look at new tools, planning innovation, and promising technologies to consider in planning, and address both developing and longstanding challenges. Get a firm but light-hearted look at the case for reforming planning tools.
The recent book The Color of Law uncovered hidden bias in housing. Use the same lens to view bias in other planning areas such as transportation and infrastructure that creates disproportionate impacts on lower-income communities. Hear about new methods using technology to address equity through proactive planning.