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Hi, welcome to the Certified Sustainable City Planner online course.

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I'm glad to be your host and instructor. I'm Luis Melgarejo, and I have more than 20 years of consulting research experience and education

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In North America, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.

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emphasizing in smart cities sustainable land use planning

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Urban Biodiversity protection and climate adaptation

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for urban and rural settlements.

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I organized this course into four sections that resemble the planning process.

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The planning process or cycle looks first into challenges or problems, applies them

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Planning methods and technologies

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implements solutions in the built and non-built environment

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And then monitors and evaluates outputs to make amendments before renewing the planning process again.

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In this course, the first section reviews the fundamentals and today's key issues of sustainable and resilient city planning.

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such as risks of climate and environmental change.

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the sustainable development goals pandemics.

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increase of car accidents and traffic jams and so on.

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We move then to the second part in which we will look into tools, methods, technologies.

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and certifications to address these challenges.

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The last two sections offer an overview for the implementation, funding, and financing of sustainable

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and resilient development planning.

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As well as developing monitoring and evaluation solutions.

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to address bottlenecks and improve

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the planning practice. We will work on case studies and cutting edge technologies used in North America

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Europe and Latin America.

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Afterwards, I will showcase tools, methodologies, and building certifications for sustainable and low carbon infrastructure such as lead

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embryo building certifications.

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This course promotes social sustainability by fostering community engagement, inclusivity, and creating livable spaces

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I hope this course renders technical capacity to your everyday work

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As a professional and planner.

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This training will be delivered using instructional videos, five quizzes.

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five case studies from three different continents. Supplementary references, and links to several useful tools, including resiliency and human development evaluation methods.

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from the United Nations, national governments, and some NGOs.

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You will have a final exam with 50 multiple selection questions.

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With this, I look forward to seeing you in our first module of the course.

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Thank you.